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A New Competition – Fostering Collaboration
Both competitive and collaborative environments have produced game-changing breakthroughs in multiple fields but combining the best aspects of both seems to remain more of an imprecise art than a...
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Monthly Recap: 5 of the Most Innovative Things from October
“I want to stay as close on the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. … Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them...
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InnoCentive at FT Innovate 2013
InnoCentive joined the great and the ground-breaking for this year’s FT Innovate 2013 event held in London, entitled “The New Groundbreakers”. It was attended by digital giants such as Facebook, Amazon...
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Facebook Open Academy: Real World Computer Science Experience for Students
Facebook recently launched Open Academy, an open source initiative that aims to attract and help young coders. It’s one of the many open-source curricula out there but what’s unique about it is the...
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Innovation in Cannes
Last week we spent three days in Cannes at the World Innovation Convention. This intimate, high-level event proved a great setting to share experiences, learn from best practices and failures, and...
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Innovation and the Missing Link to Renewable Energy
Of the many aspects to the current energy situation in the U.S. and elsewhere, technological innovation is just one facet, but an important one. According to one MIT professor and entrepreneur taking...
View ArticleShaping the Future of Online Interaction
Did you ever think it was possible to pick up, move and mould an object from half-way around the world? Developers at MIT Media Lab have recently developed a technology to do just this, and more. This...
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Dow Chemical Engages Crowdsourcing as a Marketing Tool
Earlier this Month, Dow Chemicals launched a Challenge titled, Seeking Ideas to Expand the Market for New Oil-Soluble Polyalkylene Glycols (“Oil-Sol PAG”). Historically polyalkylene glycols, or...
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5 Industries That Should be Using Big Data
Google, Microsoft, and Facebook all lean on big data to build their market share and keep them ahead of the competition. They have learned from companies that allowed themselves to be overwhelmed by...
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Crowdsourced Solutions That Are Out of This World
It seems that crowdsourced solutions are cropping up everywhere. And we do mean everywhere. NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has jumped into the crowdsoucing business. Its...
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Whole You™Healthcare Innovations – Challenges to help unlock human potential.
The vast majority of healthcare companies focus their efforts towards finding new treatments and techniques that help extend life for patients around the world. But is there enough consideration given...
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An Innovative Company that Knows its Market
Cree aims to make traditional, energy-wasting lighting methods obsolete with their efficient, affordable LED bulbs. Fast Company, one of the world’s leaders in progressive business media, recently...
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Using the “Crowd” in Innovative Problem Solving
One benefit of crowds is that they tend to not follow a hierarchical structure, making them more flexible and open to innovative ideas. “Crowds” are becoming more and more important in innovative...
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Jeff Bezos is facing an innovation challenge by going into the space tourism...
Jeff Bezos is getting into the space tourism business, which is closer than ever to being a reality. Anyone who knows Jeff Bezos is most famous for having founded Amazon.com, the big online department...
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An innovation that allows the deaf to ‘feel’ sounds
Sensors picks up sounds and vibrate, allowing the wearer to feel rather than hear sounds. Many types of wearable devices attempt to enhance a human sense that for one reason or another has been...
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How a Simple Innovation Could Help People See in the Dark
Field tests of people treated with the night-vision formula showed that they had remarkable ability to navigate in the dark in a variety of environments. IO9 recently reported on a simple innovation...
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Energy from Wi-fi Signals May Speed IoT Technology & Innovation
The Internet of Things may soon be powered by the excess energy in wi-fi hot spots. Promising research suggests that the innumerable sensors and actuators deployed in the Internet of Things (IoT) may...
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How an innovation in magnets could make nuclear fusion power a reality
Using recent innovations in magnet technology, engineers could be able to make nuclear fusion power a reality. A joke that nuclear engineers like to tell is that commercial nuclear fusion power is a...
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3D Printed guides for regrowing nerves is an innovative product that could...
A new product could help reverse paralysis by implanting a 3-D printed “guide” to help the nerves grow back correctly. Regrowing nerves that have been damaged due to disease or injuries is one of the...
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A razor that uses a laser is an innovative product indeed
While it sounds like something Dr. Evil invented, the laser razor is tuned to destroy hair, not skin. Ever since people started shaving using sea shells back in ancient times, people have been in...
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