Global Ideas Bank The Global Ideas Bank's origins lie in the Institute for Social Inventions, which was set up in 1985 by Nicholas Albery, social inventor and visionary. From small beginnings (a network of inventors, a quarterly newsletter), the Institute grew into a full-fledged organisation under his leadership: producing an annual compendium, running social inventions workshops and promoting creative solutions around the world. It was part of the first European Social Innovations Exchange. In 2001, the Institute was awarded a Margaret Mead Special Recognition Award for "community creativity for a new century" In 1995, the Global Ideas Bank (originally suggested by an American correspondent, Gregory Wright) was first established online, and has since become the name for the entire project's work. See also[edit] External links[edit]
ENoLL Services ENoLL is offerting services to its members of the Open Living Labs Community. Services can be classified in 3 different types based on their access cost, effective members (5000 EUR/yearly), associated members (5000 EUR/yearly) and adherent members (administrative fee of 500 EUR). Call for new effective members in June, pay the reduced membership fee (2500 EUR). * Number of seats for Associated members limited to 1/3 of the size of the Council ** Adherent member can occasionally receive these services under certain conditions (e.g Effective or Associated member not found, specific support to very strategic projects and programmes (under Project WG assessment), etc) *** Associated members get a ‘supporting organization” label that indicates that they support ENoLL and they are associated member.
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Cola Wars Sparking &quot;The beginning of the end of petroleum-based plastics&quot; PepsiCo now has a green bullet they can fire at archrival Coca-Cola. Yesterday the former revealed that they have a new, petroleum-products-free bottle design comprised entirely of vegetable products including switch grass, pine bark and corn husks. Despite its more natural provenance, the new bottle is "indistinguishable" from the current plastic one, according to PepsiCo's Senior Veep of Advance Research Rocco Papalia. PepsiCo announced the discovery Tuesday and said it plans to test the product in 2012 in a few hundred thousand bottles. Coca-Cola is working on a similar bottle, but they're reportedly several years behind. via npr
Open Innovation | Innovation We want to create a better future – for consumers, for the environment, and for our business. To achieve that vision, we need to innovate – to improve existing products and create new ones. We have world-class research and development facilities, making breakthroughs that keep Unilever at the forefront of product development. But we know that the world is full of brilliant people, with brilliant ideas – and we are constantly looking for new ways to work with potential partners. We call this way of working Open Innovation. Small actions, big difference By working with us, you could help change the world – even if it is a little at a time. We’re looking for help in achieving our most important ambition. We want good technological ideas to become reality quickly – whoever thought of them first. Often we will have specific challenges we'd welcome your collaboration on: a new formula, a new technique, new packaging or a fresh design solution to a product we already have in mind.
Ideas bank Many ideas banks are provided as free of charge, or set around certain companies in general to work out new inventions. Although ideas are provided by a community of people, problems can arise when people take the ideas of the site and begin developing them.[citation needed] There is no possible way to prove that the idea on the ideas bank was original and not taken from something else. The front end of innovation is quite distinct from the remainder of the innovation process. The fuzzy front end of innovation benefits by having a collaborative tool serving as a backbone to nurture an organization's culture of innovation. Unsolicited ideas typically lead to incremental innovation. The leading software in this space includes CogniStreamer, Brainbank, Imaginatik and BrightIdea. Examples[edit] Idea management software has the sole purpose of raising new ideas — for new products, process improvements, employee welfare or any other corporate use. See also[edit] External links[edit]
revolutions.is - Weekly stories from change-makers and culture-shapers Office Labs Creating prototypes and experiments is a great way to get people talking. It helps make the unreal or unfeasible feel closer to reality. Sometimes the projects we work on are a little risky and not everything turns out to be über brilliant. Our experiments aren't always publically available, but we're constantly building, taking feedback, and iterating in close partnership with the rest of the Office team. If we sit around and talk about the future we're not helping to make it real any sooner. We're not all talk!