The Benefits of Partnering with US Universities in the Era of Open Innovation. Today's University is a rich resource for companies seeking game-changing technological breakthroughs. In this in-depth article Melba Kurman looks at the benefits of open innovation partnerships between companies and American university researchers. In 2009, according to data from the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), companies sponsored over $4 billion worth of university research in the United States. Universities, rather than industrial labs, conduct the majority of federally-funded research in cutting-edge fields such as biotech, clean energy, and nanotechnology, often giving them a clear lead in the race to create ground breaking new initiatives in these fields and at the same time making them high-value open innovation partners.
Some corporate innovation managers are surprised to discover that U.S. universities own large and diverse patent portfolios that originate from the cutting-edge scientific research that goes on in university research labs. Localization for Global Growth | Lionbridge. Your Crowdsourcing Platform. Crowdsourcing infographics - five of the best - Marketing How To Guides. By Lucinda Southern, junior reporter, UTalkMarketing You may have noticed the debate on our global blogger network this week regarding crowdsourcing. One of our guest bloggers wrote an interesting post about the future of crowdsourcing and social media. The symbiosis between the two makes for a great business plan partnership. But, like social media, crowdsourcing is far from perfect. This week’s top infographics describe the process, benefits and disadvantages of the practice. First, a little background. Early examples of crowdsourcing can still be found though, for example imploring the community to submit examples of words and their uses (a 70 year project, entailing over 6 million submissions and resulting in the Oxford English Dictionary).
The debate is still open. Check out 12ahead, our brand new platform covering the latest in cutting-edge digital marketing and creative technology from around the globe. The 5th Model “Crowdsourcing” Hits Madison Ave + Crowdsourcing Infographic (Part 1) 0 Flares Twitter 0 Facebook 0 Google+ 0 LinkedIn 0 inShare0 0 Flares × The Rise of Crowdsourcing 2.0: Benefits for brands and ad agencies In the era of seismic change now occurring on Madison Avenue, ad agencies are starting to strap on an extra seat belt. There is a lot of talk about revamping traditional ad agency models, e.g., digital, hybrid, tradigital or simply, creation of the “new agency”. Traditional agencies are pushed to their limits by the explosion of digital and social media marketing projects as clients demand more. Agency compensation models fortified with high overhead are under pressure since it isn’t easy for a large agency to monetize the creation of a Twitter background page or Facebook fan page.
The “5th Model” Recognizes the Value of Social Media Marketing Marketers can connect with customers using social media more efficiently vs. outbound marketing tactics. What is Crowdsourcing 2.0? Enter a relatively new concept that will make The Fifth Model a reality. Peter H. Real-time, Real-world Crowd Computing. By Rob Miller (MIT CSAIL), workshop organizerwith Jeff Bigham (University of Rochester) and Michael Bernstein (MIT CSAIL) Many applications of crowd computing to date have been batch computation. Consider the ESP Game [1], LabelMe [2], reCaptcha [3], and most tasks seen on Mechanical Turk. In these applications, people are labeling and transcribing data for a corpus that will eventually be used for indexing or machine learning. This work has two interesting properties.
What if we relax those limits — first that crowd work is asynchronous, and second that it’s only about computation? Our group at MIT CSAIL has already been studying what might be possible if we can do crowd work on demand, on behalf of an end user. VizWiz is a point in this new design space for crowd computing. What if the crowd were also situated in the real world? Let’s think about real-time, real-world crowd computing, because it’s coming. Rob Miller is an associate professor of computer science at MIT. References. Crowdsourcing, Social Production and Network Economy Futures by Ger... Crowd Labs Incorporated. November 22nd, 2010 by Ville Miettinen The history of experimenting on humans doesn’t have what you’d call a spotless reputation. Google it, and you get Nazis, CIA mind control, and conspiracy theories about Guantanamo Bay and Ritalin.
And that’s just in the first ten hits. Given its unpleasant past, crowdsourced workers might, at first, be less than enthusiastic about their growing popularity as subjects for human research. Thankfully, academia has moved on since the bad old days of the Stanford prison experiment and the worst thing most modern participants ever have to deal with is a badly worded questionnaire. A researcher’s paradise? Social scientists, psychologists and economists constantly require thousands of people to take part in experiments. It’s a concept the research community is just beginning to get behind.
Troubled MindsNot everyone though, is convinced about the wisdom of crowd-based research. One big issue is how you know if participants are really who they say they are? Building your ‘relationship capital’: open innovation as a strategic business imperative | innovatrs.com. Better Buy Project :: How can we make the federal acquisition process more transparent, participatory, and collaborative? Close Window About the Better Buy Project/Frequently Asked Questions Why the Federal Acquisition Process? On his first day in office, President Obama challenged leaders in government to "use innovative tools, methods, and systems to cooperate among themselves, across all levels of Government, and with nonprofit organizations, businesses, and individuals in the private sector.
" The acquisition process represents one of the most important areas of collaboration between government and the private sector. Unfortunately, it is also among the most complex and least transparent. The best part of this project is that the U.S. What Topics Are At Issue? This project is concerned primarily with the pre-contract-award stages of the acquisition process—the activities that take place before the government "signs on the dotted line" to buy a product or service. What Kind of Feedback Are You Looking For? We are looking for ideas to make federal acquisition more open, transparent, and collaborative.
Crowdsourcing: 5 Reasons It's Not Just For Startups Any More. Next-generation enterprises looking to drive efficiency and innovation have recently been able to tap into online communities to offload work. For the first time since outsourcing became prevalent in the 90s -- making it easier to move tasks out to partners that could do something better or more cheaply than you could -- businesses now have a new, potent, and often far cheaper option thanks to the Web. Frequently referred to as crowdsourcing, and a darling of the Web 2.0 industry, it has recently come of age as the tools and marketplaces for on-demand work capacity on the network have expanded far beyond the early volunteer communities that originally proved out the concepts. These pioneers, which include the world of open source software and online services such as YouTube and Threadless, get most of their value from a large group of people or community through the simple use of an open invitation.
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Labor. Funding. Pre-Occupied With Corporate Social Responsibility. Workshop on Ubiquitous Crowdsourcing/introduction. The case for crowd computing. Three Forces Disrupting Management. Most of the industrial pioneers who created “modern” management—individuals like Frederick Taylor, Frank Gilbreth, Henry Ford, Alfred Sloan, and Donaldson Brown—were born in the 19th century. These bold thinkers would no doubt be surprised to learn that their inventions, which included workflow optimization, variance analysis, capital budgeting, functional specialization, divisionalization, and project management, are still the cornerstones of large-scale management systems. It is difficult for contemporary observers to appreciate the profound impact these revolutionary breakthroughs had on the organization of economic life in the early decades of America’s industrial revolution. In 1890, nine out of ten white males worked for themselves, and the ones who didn’t were referred to disparagingly as “wage slaves.”
At the time, the average manufacturing company had four employees, and few factories had more than 100 laborers. Envisioning The Omnipresent, Benevolent Internet Of The Future. Lynn St. Amour, President and CEO of the Internet Society, joins us for the second in our series in which people in business go beyong their comfort zone and venture to make those endlessly caveated "forward-looking statements. " The Internet Society, a nonprofit founded in 1992, currently has 40,000 members; next month, it will be hosting a one-day event in New York, asking the question, "What kind of Internet do you want? " Here is an edited and condensed transcript of our conversation. It seems a little funny to talk about the future of the Internet, because the Internet already seems so ridiculously futuristic. Do you ever think about the Internet and just think, "Wait, what? " I guess I'd have to say yes. Let's talk a little about the relationship between governments and the Internet.
I think that's a constant struggle. When old politicians talk about the Internet, it's hilarious. Frankly speaking, no. So we'll still be hearing talk of Internets and series of tubes? Hopefully not. Beyond The Bottom Line: Time For Radical Reform. As Scorn for Vote Grows, Protests Surge Around Globe - Readers' Comments. The Social Business Continuum.