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A Lateral Way to Expose War Crimes and Fight Disinformation

Destination Innovation

In 2012 in his blog ‘Brown Moses’, he posted articles with videos from the civil war in Syria. He and his collaborators analysed hundreds of short videos and were able to authenticate their locations using geo-location tehniques.

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Nine Short Innovation Lessons from Lego

Destination Innovation

In 2012 Lego launched ‘Lego Friends’ with a more realistic ‘mini-doll’ Sales to girls tripled. Collaborate to innovate. Lego commissioned detailed ethnographic studies to determine why this was. They examined differences between how boys and girls play.

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We are falling badly behind on our invention in technology for the Energy Transition

Paul Hobcraft

Also, I can only encourage you to get in touch to see if we have areas of some collaboration opportunities. Technology collaboration, here the intent is to advance the research, development and commercialisation of energy technologies. ” On their extensive site, they provide constant updates.

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Innovative Start-Ups Founded by Women

Destination Innovation

It allows multiple people in remote locations to virtually interact in a way which mimics what they would experience if they were collaborating in the same operating room. Louise Hill founded GoHenry in 2012 when she grew tired of funding her children’s online purchases and wanted to teach them financial independence.

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Why We Are Entering A New Innovation Era.

Paul Hobcraft

One of the implications is this growing recognition that innovation is rarely succeeding in isolation but it is growing on a more highly dependent type of complementary innovation, a collaborative network, working around this new emerging innovation to deliver a more connected, radical experience, requiring innovation ecosystem management.

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Crowdfunding Efforts in the Wake of Harvey, Irma, Maria and the Earthquake

IdeaScale

Obviously, you can collect ideas and collaborate on their development using a tool like IdeaScale, but crowdsourcing can also be used to gather funds from the public and when that happens, it’s called crowdfunding. It could be used to engage people in activities like in micro-tasking as you do on Amazon’s MechanicalTurk.

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Collaborative Contracts and Competitive Bidding: Not Mutually Exclusive!

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

Can collaboration and competition co-exist to create the best contract bidding relationships? In 2012, University of Tennessee researchers began studying how organizations use competitive bidding methods. The short answer is yes. Their findings?