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Like InnoCentive, NineSigma is an open Innovation service provider.

From About page: "InnoCentive is the open innovation and crowdsourcing pioneer that enables organizations to solve their key problems by connecting them to diverse sources of innovation including employees, customers, partners, and the world's largest problem solving marketplace." Innocentive works with corporations, non profits, government, etc. *See Resources section for white paper and webinar.

Welcome to eduMOOC 2011!

Also, "The Official Social Network of the Global Education Conference." This social network, on ning, has over 9,000 members and 104 distinct groups. The Network offers the Global Education Conference, a collaborative, world-wide community initiative for students, educators and organizations at all levels. It takes place online (free) using the Blackboard Collaborate platform.

A Social and Professional Networking Site for Teachers and Educators

The National Education Research and Development Centers are funded through IES's NCER. The mission of the R&D Centers is to contribute to the production and dissemination of rigorous evidence and products that provide practical solutions to important education problems in the United States. The R&D Centers achieve this mission by developing, testing, and disseminating new approaches to improve teaching and learning, and ultimately, student achievement. Each of the Centers conducts a focused program of education research in its topic area. In addition, each Center works cooperatively with NCER, conducts supplemental research within its broad topic area, and provides national leadership in defining research and development directions within its topic area. Currently, there are 18 National R&D Centers.

"World's largest private nutrition R&D network..."

"What is LIVING LAB? LIVING LAB is a research and development infrastructure to research human interaction with, and stimulate the adoption of, sustainable, smart and healthy innovations around the home. Occupant interaction with the home can be studied in an adaptable and controllable home environment. This way the technical development, the implementation and the social uptake of sustainable innovations can be accelerated. LIVING LAB brings together Europe's top research institutes and companies and aims to stimulate cooperative projects in the fields of user centred research and product development."

"About About the content of this website Welcome to the Open Living Lab Knowledge Centre. The knowledge centre contains a body of knowledge about the living lab methodology. But the Centre is also a community: we want to bring developers, researchers, and other stakeholders in the living lab field together to share knowledge and experiences. The website has the following purposes:"

If we are to achieve our goal of leading the world in education, we must be leaders in the design and implementation of a more effective education system. To that end, this plan calls for a new approach to R&D for education that focuses on four areas:

MDEC serves post-secondary education in Michigan with a network for educators to research and share best practices, refine strategies for quality programs, and to advocate for developmental education. This is not an online network - most meetings "held using a conference call format."

"The Global Development Network (GDN) is a leading International Organization of developing and transition country researchers, policy and research institutes promoting the generation, sharing, and application to policy of multidisciplinary knowledge for the purpose of development. "

The ONE-ITS Network Platform supports the ITS projects. The members of this network are researchers focused on solving problems related traffic concerns.

By Haydn Shaughnessy on Innovation Management. Published October 2010. "This major case study from Innovation Management "How to Build Innovation Communities" looks at the practical steps of one innovation community, in the mobile sector. The initiative captured over 1,000 new ideas, 29 going through to implementation, in its first six months online, and galvanised wider community activity and loyalty for the company. The document outlines best practice case in innovation community development..."

The term ideagora is used as the space for sharing ideas. The ideagora should operate as an ecosystem, one that allows processes to evolve organically. (InnoCentive and NineSigma mentioned in this article.)