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By Frank Mattes, on Innovation Management. June 22, 2011.This article, and others offered on the site, feature for profit organizations. "R&D-driven open innovation is a powerful lever for enhancing the firm's innovativeness since it multiplies the firm's R&D resources. Two examples may highlight the point: Procter&Gamble has 9,000 people employed in its various R&D units - and estimates the global number of experts in its technology fields to be two million. And Merck Inc. estimates that although it is a global leader in its field it produces only one percent of the relevant global patents every year. Both of these firms see open innovation as an effective way for engaging the innovative potential of the thousands of brilliant minds outside the firm."

This is written as a guide for starting an open innovation community. At the beginning, it lists links to a number of innovation communities, including Dow Chemical 'Hewlett Packard, and Nokia, among others.

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.

Posted by Clarance Fisher on his blog Remote Access, July 19 2011. Per his post, Fisher first wrote about a tool that would help "global kids in global classrooms to connect with each other." He then used the site vworker.com, where people post their projects, inviting coders to bid on them. Once he had a price for his project, he used ChipIn.com (for only one week) to raise the money for his project.

I've bookmarked for several reasons: (1) Love the idea of online community for kids around the globe (2) Vworker.com sounds like a great resource (3) Very interesting to see a social fundraising tool like ChipIn.com in action

Posted by Gerry on (blog) Spectrum > Mobile Learning, Libraries, And Technologies, Feb 6 2010. Cites article by John Dew in The Futurist, vol 44(2), p 46-51, Mar/Apr 2010. Basic trends include global standardization of curriculum, greater diversity of student body, and more options for when/where learning takes place.

The Annenberg Innovation Lab is affiliated with the Anneberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. It is a vehicle for an ongoing knowledge exchange with public institutions and private sector firms that are on the front lines of technological change in communications. Annenberg has a number of Research networks including the Annenberg Research Network on Globalization and Communication - a community of scholars focused on advancing the study of globalization and communications

"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. "

Tagline: A forum to encourage and amplify technology-based moonshine thinking and teamwork. Similar to TED talks, but with a (so far) much smaller archive, each talk in this series focuses on solving a "moonshot" problem, generally through significant and radical innovation. From their About page, "Solve for X is a place to hear and discuss radical technology ideas for solving global problems."

"Online collaboration delivering on-target solutions Doing business in today's world means stepping up to the plate to meet complex and fast moving challenges. To make critical business decisions, you need world-class expertise, preferably on-demand. How can you harness this knowledge for virtually any industry or functional area, anywhere, any time? The answer is 10EQS Online Collaboration. With 10EQS' global platform, you leverage a next-gen "workforce in a cloud" combining proven management consulting techniques with on-line mass collaboration."

By Andrew Bonamici, Steven G. Huter, and Dale Smith in EDUCAUSE Review, 45(2), March/April 2010, pp 10-11. Those of us in the "developed" world (North America, Europe, etc.) rely on cyberinfrastructure to gain access to the vast amounts of information available on the Web. But what about students and researchers in the rest of the world?

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. This resource hosts communities for members to contribute and share learning and teaching materials. The communities are categorized by higher education disciplines. In addition to contributing materials, members can comment about outside learning materials that are used, share information about themselves and knowledge about their discipline, put together personal collections to use in the classroom and become a Peer Reviewer of learning materials in member's discipline. In addition to discipline communities, there is the Community of MERLOT Partner Academic Support Services (COMPASS). This community is made up of ePortfolio, Faculty Development, Library and Information Services, Online Courses and Pedagogy. The ePortflio Portal centers educational resources around ePortfolio use in higher education, among students and faculty. Partner Communities like GLOBE extend the MERLOT network. The Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange (GLOBE) alliance was established between ARIADNE Foundation in Europe, Education Services Austrailia, LORNET in Canada, National Institute of Multimedia Education (NIME) in Japan and MERLOT with the goal to "work collaboratively on a shared vision of ubiquitous access to quality educational content." The majority of MERLOT members are faculty/instructors and the balance are students, campus administrators, librarians and other members of higher education who are concerned with online learning materials, technology, teaching and learning, and innovation.

"Corporations use TWO process form, BOTH missing entirely from dowdy lazy sloppy dishonest (Harvard) universities; a) process weaves----emediated process flows PUNCTUATED with mass workshop EVENTS b) pulsed systems---rhythms of engagement with disengagement, sameness with difference, local with global---so that mere addition of connectedness is not allowed to destroy all creativity. "

Pfizer's Centers for Therapeutic Innovation (Translating Leading Science into Clinical Candidates Through Networked Collaboration) is dedicated to the establishment of global partnerships between Academic Medical Centers and Pfizer to transform research and development through a focus on translational medicine.

This MOOC is being developed by George Siemens, Stephen Downes, and Dave Cormier. For this particular MOOC, they will be introducing over 30 speaker/instructors (one a week) with a global perspective (faculty representing 11 countries). Links to course registration, outline and other details from this page.

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

By Lisa M. Krieger, Physorg.com, June 27 2010. This article profiles the "exuberant founder and sole faculty member of the nonprofit Khan Academy," Sal Khan who creates short YouTube videos on a variety of educational topics, primarily (but not exclusively) math. You can find his work at http://www.youtube.com/khanacademy

An interview with Heather Baser, an Innovation Dialogue from the 'Innovation Dialogue on Being Strategic in the Face of Complexity' conference, Nov 30-Dec 1, 2009. "Baser (formerly with ECDPM) facilitated a round table on capacity development from the perspective of complex adaptive systems."