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Quirky focuses on physical consumer products, so no business ideas, food, or standalone software please. Before you start, you can learn more about why Quirky passes on an idea. Always be sure to ask yourself: will my product make people's lives better, how will it work, will it stand the test of time, and will people buy it?
OURGOODS: Why is a significant amount of labor considered "outside" of the economy?
“What is often called ‘the economy’ (i.e. wage labor for a market exchange of commodities in a capitalist enterprise) is but a small set of activities by which we produce, exchange, and distribute values in our society. What about an economic politics that allows us to think creatively and to start here and now to make new economies? We believe that other, more just and ecologically sustainable economies are possible. Everyday people in everyday places can be part of re-thinking and re-enacting economies.”-Community Economies Collective
Open Innovation – Public vs Private
What are the similarities and differences when it comes to open innovation in the public and private sectors? I have been wondering about this question for a while and as I gather my thoughts, it would be great to hear other perspectives. Here you get my starting views for a good discussion.
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New technology in information and communications has changed the character of the digital divide—and the meaning of digital equity in this deeply connected age. Today home Internet access is common, but low-income households, older Americans and people who have high school degrees or less lag behind other demographic groups. The widespread use of smartphones is narrowing the gap for some of these groups, but that alone is not a solution for overcoming the digital divide. These factors, along with the growing importance of the Internet to the economy and society at large, are shifting discourse on digital equity.
Open Innovation
Section » Open Innovation Working the Crowd to Solve Civic Issues The IdeaConnection website noted that open innovation is providing communities in numerous countries with the means to start to affect change in their localities. Not only as a way to report civic problems but also to ideate, design, develop and implement the solutions. Just as some companies realize they don’t have the smarts to completely go Comments Off • Read this story »
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Intro Over the past three years, Lessig has given more than 100 talks like the one captured here. On July 24, 2002, at the O.Reilly Open Source Conference he announced this would be one of his last. View It! Be sure to check out the mirrors if downloads are slow. Flash Presentation [8.4MB, Flash 5 required]
Insights into Open Innovation
These insights are based on a recent interview I did with Allagi, an open innovation service provider in Brazil. What are the most important opportunities and challenges that open innovation brings to companies? I think the below benefits are the most relevant for small as well as big companies when it comes to open innovation: • Faster development and market launch of new products and services, which will build revenues, market share, and profits. • More diversity brought to innovation, which will result in uncovering more opportunities. • Improved success rate of new products and services by making the innovation process stronger.
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Point: Create an internal venture fund to incubate revolutionary ideas. Story: This week’s Innovation Summit at the Shell Technology Center Houston (STCH) highlighted the need for innovation and collaboration to solve society’s most pressing challenges. As the world’s problems become more complex, the best way to tackle them is with a cross-disciplinary approach. What are some ways that companies can foster this multidisciplinary collaboration to achieve breakthrough innovation?
Free Culture: Lawrence Lessig Keynote from OSCON 2002
Editor's Note: In his address before a packed house at the Open Source Convention, Lawrence Lessig challenges the audience to get more involved in the political process. Lawrence, a tireless advocate for open source, is a professor of law at Stanford Law School and the founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. He is also the author of the best-selling book Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace.
40 Examples of Open Innovation & Crowdsourcing
We can call it open innovation, crowdsourcing or co-creation – or something else. In short, it is about bringing external input to an innovation process and this is no longer a buzzword. Companies are learning that they must embrace this paradigm shift of innovation in order to keep up with the competition and those that are lagging behind, well, they will find themselves to be in big trouble in the coming years. This list of corporate initiatives is worth looking into if you want to get an idea of what is happening with the open innovation, crowdsourcing and co-creation today. NOTE: The process of bringing external input into an innovation process requires lots of work that is often not visible to the public.
What Digital Commoners Need To Do
The following is a meditation on the strategic phases in the construction of a peer to peer world By Michel Bauwens, originally published at What have we been doing in the last few years, and what should we be doing next? Here is a list of major undertakings, some well under way, some barely begun.
40 Examples of Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing
We can call it open innovation, crowdsourcing or co-creation – or something else. In short, it is about bringing external input to an innovation process and this is no longer a buzzword. Companies are learning that they must embrace this paradigm shift of innovation in order to keep up with the competition and those that are lagging behind, well, they will find themselves to be in big trouble in the coming years.
