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IdeaConnection is an open innovation intermediary and innovation resource portal. It mediates solutions to scientific, engineering and business problems, and publishes innovation-related resources (interviews, success-stories, open problems), both with the general goal of creating more high-value jobs and promoting advancement of science.

InnoCentive is an "open innovation" company that takes research and development problems in a broad range of domains such as engineering, computer science, math, chemistry, life sciences, physical sciences and business and frames them as "challenge problems" for anyone to solve them. It gives cash awards for the best solutions to solvers who meet the challenge criteria.

InnoCentive is an "open innovation" company that takes research and development problems in a broad range of domains such as engineering, computer science, math, chemistry, life sciences, physical sciences and business and frames them as "challenge problems" for anyone to solve them. It gives cash awards for the best solutions to solvers who meet the challenge criteria.

"We always know more then we can say, and we will always say more than we can write down." "People and human systems can not be engineered in anything that really matters - we are not machines." "Human decision making is not about rational evaluation of carefully considered options - its about pattern recognition." "Faced whit a new situation we don't make a rational choice. We do a 'first fit', not a 'best fit' pattern match whit our past experience and apply that." "Knowledge management is about improving decision making or creating the context for innovation - nothing else matters."