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Crowdsourcing competition allows Georgetown scientists to raise funds 
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People who really care about the wisdom of the crowds need to think beyond "clicking" and sifting through "likes" and "shares" to gain insights that matter.
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I am not so sure, despite how popular it is to talk about the wisdom of crowds because this approach seems like a rehash of the Delphi method, that uses experts in a given field to do the same thing act as a cord. The reliability of the Delphi method has already been called into question as not being all that helpful in the long term
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Nitz Associates is working on an app that enables students with smartphones to get smarter with science.
Think of it as a “Science Lab in Box”. Building on our Acoustic Signature Analysis technology and expertise in Test Instrumentation, we’re creating a “black box” that wirelessly connects to Android phones and provides an assortment of inexpensive laboratory instrumentation, logging and control for experiments. The “black box” will make physical measurements like temperature, pressure, magnetism, g-force, etc. plus an oscilloscope with digital and analog signal generation and analysis, in a price range of $50-$100.
If you haven’t voted yet, please go to: www.missionmainstreetgrants.com/business/detail/16082 and click the vote button for Nitz Associates. You’ll need to have a facebook account, and please don’t be put off by the note from Chase that they’ll peek at your friends list. This is to ensure you’re a real person with a real facebook account. Chase promises not to store or share any of your information. (besides, the NSA and facebook already have all of it).
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The true story of Intel's deployment of TRIZ across the corporate enterprise how to deploy your own innovation program - Key Principles for a successful deplo
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And this is how Intel is going to win at out-innovating others in the marketplace of semiconductor and high tech
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Given a global 98% failure rate when it comes to innovating there clearly needs to be a better understanding about what Innovation Management is and how to do i
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What the root causes of innovation failure are about and what to do about it
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New SEC Rules for Crowdfunding, make sure to review and update current policies and plans
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The CES Innovations Design and Engineering Awards is an annual competition which honors consumer technology manufacturers’ and developers’ outstanding design and engineering in consumer electronics products.
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A better way to evaluate companies on who is innovative, and likely more profitable - the products they provide the market, a far better analysis than a Wall Street Analysts perspective on who you should invest in. Evaluate companis on what they do to serve their customers.
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Day in court: providing access to those with the best story about their justice needs (@DuncanBannatyne 2 scottish law graduates are trying to increase access to legal help - vote at http://t.co/92Y1dnhlr3)...
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More crowd funding on getting justice - interesting
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International Business Times
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Crowdfunding to help a brother out - cool
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[by Jordi de Paco]. It's been a month since we finished our successful crowdfunding campaign for Gods Will Be Watching, collecting 20.385€ or more than $25,000. Now Deconstructeam is putting 120% effort into our first ...
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Gods? Hmmm. Wall Street had better watch out
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HP's push for crowdsourced threat intelligence sharing reflects how the best security tools in the world won't save enterprises if they don't know what types of emerging threats they're facing. "The things that have been ...
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Crowd Sourcing Threat Intelligence - nice
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Tania Menesse, Director of Economic Development, City of Shaker Heights; Eric Diamond, VP Economic and Community Development (Business Leaders Series:...
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Now this is an interesting trend
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Combating inflation with crowdsourcing Daily News & Analysis The technique, popularly known as crowdsourcing and crowdfunding, has successfully been used to gather finance and resources for various types of projects, from movies to social causes,...
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How to combat inflation
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Love the finance folks but they too can say some really stupid things. A LOL moment for those who listen to finance without challenging them on what they say
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Crowdfunding 101, have a read
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A "How-to-do a Technology Forecast using simple and advanced methods within the Systematic Innovation Toolbox. This presentation was done in the Winter term of
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These tools are foundational to understanding where to go on your technology roadmap, don't understand where you're going, better get started the big players are using these tools
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If you want to know why and how Samsung has become so good at out-innovating Apple and others, see this report
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If you want to know why and how Samsung has become so good at out-innovating Apple and others, see this report
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INTRODUCING: THE STRATEGY + INNOVATION GROUP
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The Curator of Wearbales and Iot - His Company
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70% of UK IT decision makers say their organisation wants to spend more on innovation and transformation projects
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Investing up in the UK for the near future, better than the US? Have to find out if the US VC / Angel / Crowdfunding community agree with that or not?
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Follow @calebgarling If you were to guess which category on Kickstarter had the highest rate of successful funding, without peeking, you might guess "Technology" or "Film & Video." Big names li...
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Art and Comincs getting the lionshare of crowdfunding
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Before You Consider Crowdfunding: What to Look For in an Investor
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Insights on investors in crowd-funding
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Crowdsourcing.org
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Nokia - maps
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Business bloggers at Harvard Business Review discuss a variety of business topics including managing people, innovation, leadership, and more.
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Tips on crowd sourcing - must read
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PBS
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Power to the problem solvers
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Actor hopes to raise money and awareness for vets suffering brain injuries with his film.
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Right on Max
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Even scientists and geeks can get funding, what will they think of nex? How about an easy to use investor tool to evaluate investment proposals - make it easy for everyone, investor as well as those seeking investment