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"InnoCentive, Inc. builds a Web community for open innovation that enables scientists, engineers, professionals, and entrepreneurs to collaborate to deliver solutions for R and D-driven organizations. The company posts problems on its Website and offers open research, development, and innovation assistance."

Karim Lakhani is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School's Technology and Operations Management Unit. He is a serious scholar of crowdsourcing, trying to build theories of if, how and why it works. In the past he's also written on open source theory and innovation, including articles about Wikipedia and open source science Read More http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2007/07/academics_crowdsourcing?currentPage=1#ixzz13N4ZOVu0

"Software is just the beginning … open source is doing for mass innovation what the assembly line did for mass production. Get ready for the era when collaboration replaces the corporation."

"How InnoCentive aims to exploit sophisticated technology and networking capabilities to connect problems with their potential solvers"