Innovation as Collective Process

"they've added 2 new NetSquared Local groups to the map, bringing the new official number to 80 groups in 26 cities worldwide! NetSquared Local groups meet to network and learn about using web and mobile technologies to make social change happen."

"TechSoup Global, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, was founded in 1987 on the belief that technology is a powerful enabler for social change. Since then, we've assembled a worldwide network of individuals and organizations that share this conviction. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ This network-one that you likely belong to-is working together to develop and share innovative solutions to our most urgent social challenges." \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

VISION An intelligent, open minded and free thinking society. MISSION Make knowledge and opinion, separated, both online and offline, globally available. VALUES Everyone has the right for a personal opinion. We offer an opportunity to build one. SUMMARY Newsgrape is a free text-community for the sharing of articles, which it links to each other. Writers can create Magazines to publish articles collaboratively in a group of people.

"Our mission is to empower mankind bit by bit. We have created two versions of a plug computer which interface with a social cloud network which allows users unrestricted access to an open source, application rich, community while simultaneously protecting one's privacy and security in an eco-friendly and humanitarian way."

An ideas bank is a website where people post, exchange, discuss, and polish new ideas.

Usage of Information visualization as the interdisciplinary study of "the visual representation of large-scale collections of non-numerical information...

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.

The iBridge Network is a Web-based mechanism for the dissemination of innovations such as research results and reports, computer software and other copyrighted works, biological research materials, and patented inventions. It is implemented as a database with Web interfaces and electronic commerce capabilities.

"iBridge Network is a Web-based mechanism for the dissemination of innovations"

NineSigma is an open innovation services provider that helps client companies develop and maximize value from their innovation programs. In 2008, NineSigma ranked among the top 20 percent of companies on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies in the United States.[1] The company also has operations in Europe and Asia.

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.

Cambrian House began as a crowdsourcing community that pioneered the technology to tap crowds for the best software ideas. To power open innovation in other businesses, they developed a crowdsourcing platform Chaordix - the technology to harness a crowd for breakthrough ideas.

A Discovery Network (DN) is a community that can include commercial, academic, governmental and independent entities collaborating together and coordinating their efforts to enrich society with new material goods and services, and extracting some value from doing so. The DN can also be viewed as a fully integrated structure, taking in, producing, and processing data, information, and knowledge, to produce goods and services for the global market. The term "Discovery Network" was coined by Tiberius Brastaviceanu in 2008, in his work on collaborative networks published for the Multitude Project The first Discovery Network project was created in June 2010 around the Matchmaking Device System., a consumer electronics product invented by Tiberius Brastaviceanu in October 2006.

This book is for anyone who ever had an idea for making the world a slightly better place - but no one would listen. Or if they did listen, they said it wouldn't work…

Usage of Information visualization as the interdisciplinary study of "the visual representation of large-scale collections of non-numerical information...

User innovation refers to innovation by intermediate users (e.g. user firms) or consumer users (individual end-users or user communities), rather than by suppliers (producers or manufacturers)...

Ideawicket is an Open Innovation intermediary based in New Delhi, India. The portal connects science and technology innovators with innovation seeking businesses and non-profits. Organizations looking for new technologies, breakthrough research or solutions for existing R&D problems use the Ideawicket platform to find R&D solutions and connect with research partners and suppliers in the field.

yet2.com is a global technology marketplace founded in 1999. The company is based around the idea of open innovation, and allows all types of technologies to be bought and sold. yet2.com focuses in four areas: Open Innovation Technology acquisition, Technology out-licensing and business development, Patent buying and selling, Venture Capital (yet2 Ventures)

"Everyday Edisons is a reality TV show that airs on PBS, featuring different inventors who are trying to launch their inventions in the marketplace."