Open innovation intermediaries

InnoCentive Launches Open Innovation Challenge With Shell GameChanger to Help Decarbonize the Chemical Industry

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Friday, July 2, 2021
Crowdsourcing, Articles, Collaboration, Open innovation intermediaries, Collective intelligence, Greenhouse gas emissions, InnoCentive, Social information processing, Innovation, Carbon footprint, Open innovation

The challenge for the industry is to decrease the carbon footprint whilst satisfying an increasing demand at an affordable price.

Key Points: 
  • The challenge for the industry is to decrease the carbon footprint whilst satisfying an increasing demand at an affordable price.
  • InnoCentive, a Wazoku brand, is the Open Innovation Marketplace component of Wazoku's Enterprise Innovation Platform, a suite of tools to power innovation at scale across global enterprises.
  • Reducing carbon in the production of chemicals is a technical challenge but one to which open innovation is especially suited," said Simon Hill, CEO, Wazoku.
  • It has a strong record in addressing the world's biggest challenges, so I am confident that they can help Shell on this current challenge."

InnoCentive Launches World Vision Challenge to Revolutionise Process for Counting of Improved Latrines

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Thursday, June 10, 2021
Open innovation intermediaries, Crowdsourcing, InnoCentive, Social information processing, Sewerage, Sanitation

LONDON, June 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Open innovation firm InnoCentive is supporting Christian humanitarian organisation World Vision on a new challenge to find dramatically better ways of counting the number of improved latrines in a community or district.

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  • LONDON, June 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Open innovation firm InnoCentive is supporting Christian humanitarian organisation World Vision on a new challenge to find dramatically better ways of counting the number of improved latrines in a community or district.
  • The challenge - Efficient and Reliable Counting of Improved Latrines - is seeking ways of counting the number of improved latrines in a region.
  • "Effective sanitation is essential, and crowdsourcing will play an important role in helping World Vision to meet this RTP (reduction to practice) Challenge."
  • For further information about Wazoku, https://www.wazoku.com
    For further information about InnoCentive, https://www.innocentive.com/
    For further information about SeaFreight Labs, https://www.seafreightlabs.com/
    For further information about World Vision, https://www.worldvision.org/

Debiopharm Collaborates with InnoCentive for the Launch of a Global Challenge to Develop a Single-Dose mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine

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Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Open innovation intermediaries, Crowdsourcing, InnoCentive, Social information processing, Medical research, Debiopharm, Vaccine, Health sciences, COVID-19 vaccine, Medicine, Medical specialties

b'LAUSANNE, Switzerland, April 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Debiopharm ( www.debiopharm.com ), a Swiss-based, global biopharmaceutical company, today announced the launch of a global challenge to identify a new single-dose formulation of approved mRNA COVID-19 vaccines through the InnoCentive network of "problem Solvers."

Key Points: 
  • b'LAUSANNE, Switzerland, April 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Debiopharm ( www.debiopharm.com ), a Swiss-based, global biopharmaceutical company, today announced the launch of a global challenge to identify a new single-dose formulation of approved mRNA COVID-19 vaccines through the InnoCentive network of "problem Solvers."
  • Through InnoCentive, an open innovation crowdsourcing platform, the challenge has been launched to global participants from various backgrounds including science, engineering, and technology.
  • We are confident that the pool of international innovators within the InnoCentive network will breathe fresh wind into this quest for a simplified vaccine solution."
  • Through this Challenge, Debiopharm is hoping to improve the formulation to eliminate the need for a second dose.

Debiopharm Collaborates With InnoCentive For The Launch of a Global Challenge to Develop a Single-dose mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine

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Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Vaccination, Virology, Open innovation intermediaries, Crowdsourcing, InnoCentive, Social information processing, Vaccine, Attenuated vaccine, Branches of biology

Through InnoCentive, an open innovation crowdsourcing platform, the challenge has been launched to global participants from various backgrounds including science, engineering, and technology.

Key Points: 
  • Through InnoCentive, an open innovation crowdsourcing platform, the challenge has been launched to global participants from various backgrounds including science, engineering, and technology.
  • We are confident that the pool of international innovators within the InnoCentive network will breathe fresh wind into this quest for a simplified vaccine solution."
  • The mRNA is then degraded after the protein is expressed and there is little risk for infection as may be the case with an attenuated vaccine.
  • Through this Challenge, Debiopharm is hoping to improve the formulation in order to eliminate the need for a second dose.

InnoCentive Launches Open Innovation Challenge With Habitat for Humanity to Inexpensively Harvest Drinking Water in Mexico

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Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Crowdsourcing, Open innovation intermediaries, Collaboration, Collective intelligence, InnoCentive, Social information processing, Articles, Innovation, Open innovation

LONDON, April 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Open innovation firm InnoCentive is supporting global housing nonprofit Habitat for Humanity in a new Challenge to find low-cost solutions to harvest water and remove impurities so that water is suitable for human consumption.

Key Points: 
  • LONDON, April 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Open innovation firm InnoCentive is supporting global housing nonprofit Habitat for Humanity in a new Challenge to find low-cost solutions to harvest water and remove impurities so that water is suitable for human consumption.
  • Although more than a third of homes in Mexico suffer from water shortages, torrential rain does fall during certain months.
  • InnoCentive, a Wazoku brand, is the Open Innovation Marketplace component of Wazoku's Enterprise Innovation Platform, a suite of tools to power innovation at scale across global enterprises.
  • This is exactly the type of challenge that open innovation and the InnoCentive crowd can help address."

InnoCentive Launches Open Innovation Campaign With Habitat for Humanity to Find Solutions to Prevent Mosquito Bites Across Africa

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Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Crowdsourcing, Open innovation intermediaries, Collaboration, Collective intelligence, InnoCentive, Social information processing, Innovation, Web 2.0, Open innovation

"Using the collective expertise and know-how of the InnoCentive crowd is a powerful way of finding solutions to challenges of such magnitude."

Key Points: 
  • "Using the collective expertise and know-how of the InnoCentive crowd is a powerful way of finding solutions to challenges of such magnitude."
  • "Open innovation is especially well-suited to helping with such challenges," said Harry Sangree, Founder and CEO, SeaFreight Labs.
  • Habitat for Humanity has run many open innovation challenges with InnoCentive, details of which can be found in the organization's pavilion .
  • For further information about Wazoku, visit https://www.wazoku.com
    For further information about InnoCentive, visit https://www.innocentive.com
    For further information about SeaFreight Labs, visit https://www.seafreightlabs.com
    For further information about Habitat for Humanity, visit https://www.habitat.org

InnoCentive Supports Habitat for Humanity in the Capture of Ideas to Improve Housing Quality and Safety in the Philippines

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Thursday, October 8, 2020
Crowdsourcing, Open innovation intermediaries, Social information processing, InnoCentive, Branches of biology, Habitat for Humanity, Biomarker, Organizations

LONDON, Oct. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Open innovation firm InnoCentive is working with the global housing nonprofit Habitat for Humanity , to capture ideas to improve the quality of homes in low-income areas around the world.

Key Points: 
  • LONDON, Oct. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Open innovation firm InnoCentive is working with the global housing nonprofit Habitat for Humanity , to capture ideas to improve the quality of homes in low-income areas around the world.
  • InnoCentive has a long history ofsuccess for nonprofits, with challenges including finding biomarkers for diseases and predicting the spread of/existence of viruses.
  • The InnoCentive network is an intriguing opportunity for us to help advance our mission to improve the quality of housing."
  • For further information about Wazoku, visit https://www.wazoku.com
    For further information about InnoCentive, visit https://www.innocentive.com
    For further information about SeaFreight Labs, visit https://www.seafreightlabs.com
    For further information about Habitat for Humanity, visit https://www.habitat.org

Wazoku Acquires US Open Innovation Leader InnoCentive and Raises Additional £1.25M to Support Global Growth

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Friday, July 10, 2020
Articles, Collaboration, Open innovation intermediaries, Collective intelligence, Social information processing, InnoCentive, Strategic management, Crowdsourcing, Open innovation, Value proposition, Innovation

Wazoku is also continuing its expansion with the acquisition of U.S. open innovation firm InnoCentive 's assets, in doing so creating the world's most comprehensive and powerful innovation platform and community.

Key Points: 
  • Wazoku is also continuing its expansion with the acquisition of U.S. open innovation firm InnoCentive 's assets, in doing so creating the world's most comprehensive and powerful innovation platform and community.
  • InnoCentive has grown a global network of almost 500,000 expert problem 'solvers' comprising CEOs, PhD students, engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, retired technologists and business leaders.
  • "This enables multiple modes of innovation within the same workflow and on the same digital backbone and the combination of Wazoku and InnoCentive capability offers precisely that.
  • No other firm has the experience and capability of crowdsourcing, idea management and open innovation that this combined proposition brings.

South Korea's Leading Research Institute and InnoCentive Call for Breakthrough Ideas to Beat COVID-19

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Monday, May 4, 2020
Open innovation intermediaries, Crowdsourcing, InnoCentive, Social information processing, Innovation, Articles, Human behavior, Knowledge

The SIT came to InnoCentive via Technovation Partners , the leading innovation consultancy and long-term partner to InnoCentive in Korea.

Key Points: 
  • The SIT came to InnoCentive via Technovation Partners , the leading innovation consultancy and long-term partner to InnoCentive in Korea.
  • Using the InnoCentive community we hope to discover new technologies that can solve issues and help alleviate this current situation."
  • The Challenge award will be contingent upon theoretical evaluation of the proposal by the Seoul Institute of Technology.
  • For further information about InnoCentive, please visit https://www.innocentive.com
    For further information about Wazoku, please visit https://www.wazoku.com
    For further information about the Seoul Institute of Technology, please visit https://sit.re.kr

Edison Nation’s Emmy Award–Winning Series Everyday Edisions to Air Exclusively on Crackle Beginning This March

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Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Other Communications, Other Entertainment, TV and Radio, Communications, General Entertainment, Technology, Other Technology, Entertainment, Open innovation intermediaries, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Pictures Television, Everyday Edisons, Sony Crackle, American television series, Web 2.0, World Wide Web, Edison Nation, Inc., Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, Inc., Crackle

As CEO of Edison Nation, Ferguson is enthusiastic about having viewers watch the series on Crackle.

Key Points: 
  • As CEO of Edison Nation, Ferguson is enthusiastic about having viewers watch the series on Crackle.
  • We are thrilled to be the exclusive home for Everyday Edisons, noted Philippe Guelton, president of Crackle Plus.
  • There is no doubt that the series will inspire and entertain Crackle users.
  • Michael Cable, producer of Everyday Edisons, notes, When Everyday Edisons first premiered in 2006, there was no other program like it.