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A comment from the Economist on the ECB game, which is at: http://www.ecb.europa.eu/ecb/educational/economia/html/index.en.html

Innoget provides a full range of services related to the acquisition, revaluation and marketing of technologies and addressing the needs of R&D and innovation. In an Open Innovation environment, innovation becomes yet another element at the service of companies which can be bought, sold or acquired stemming from the ideas, products and technologies of other organisations. Innoget is conceived with the clear aim of helping our clients in acquiring this innovation and revaluing their most innovative technologies. Services for companies looking for innovation * Intermediary Services: external knowledge searches including partner facilitation from evaluation through negotiation * Accessing technology solutions * Facilitating technology acquisition * Technology scouting Services for companies/research centers willing to commercialize innovative technologies * Technology enhancement: marketing technologies both online and direct personal contacts * Search of both commercial and technology partners

smartvote is a so-called online voting advice application (VAA). Based on a comprehensive questionnaire on political issues it compares the political positions of voters with those of political parties and candidates. Voters receive a voting advise in form of a position-matching. smartvote exists since 2003. Developper and operater is the non profit organization Politools. During the electoral campaign of the 2011 national elections smartvote was used more than 1.2 million times.

Austria , Germany , Greece , Switzerland , United Kingdom Type of initiative Project or service Case Abstract NOMAD aims to introduce the experience of setting a political agenda in a non-moderated, crowd sourcing way, by providing decision-makers with automated solutions for content search, acquisition, analysis and visualisation, while gathering online information from social media, blogs, news feeds and the web, following upon complex sets of issues.

A Danish computer exec creates an IT company that employs people with Asperger syndrome. Makes sense.

another example of classification and indexing serious games

core technology consists of: real-time content aggregation a four-step spam filtering process an accurate sentiment engine robust geo-demographic information sophisticated text analytics and language processing algorithms

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"Online game Foldit adds puzzle to investigate proteins to aid sepsis treatment... Gamers solving a previous Foldit puzzle remodeled an important reaction in organic synthesis in three weeks-a solution that evaded scientists for years."

Organizations like World Bank and the CDC have discovered how easy it is to design policies, create customized policy models, facilitate decision-making, build stakeholder consensus and share insights with simulations by Forio.

Last night the ARG:dundee team conducted close argument analysis on a live 45 minute broadcast of an episode of the BBC Radio 4 programme, The Moral Maze, using our Argument AnalysisWall. We aimed to make debates available on the Argument Web for all the different compatible online tools to access.

Access paper here: http://www.albany.edu/~gpr/SmallModels.pdf