can be found in NASA technology, and the new crowdsourcing website Marblar is taking advantage of that to find the next big thing.
Green Wall design - Sensorica lab prototype - Google Docs - 2 views
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AltFinLab | Alternative Finance Lab (AltFin Lab) - 0 views
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Can help with: - Partnership referral - Prototype / Project development - Niche support: Crowd-Funding / Lending / Investment http://altfinlab.org/what-we-do
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'Anti-Troll' Marblar Unites NASA Patents, Samsung to Crowdsource New Products - 1 views
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The site Wednesday announced that several hundred patents from NASA and other organizations would be available for its users to play with.
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many companies' research and development departments spend millions of dollars on such patents, more than 95 percent of them sit unused.
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Any idea that Samsung likes could find its way into Samsung technology, with 10 percent of the royalties going to the Marblar users who brought it to life
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The contributors to a Marblar project might be helping an inventor out of the goodness of their heart, but they also stand to gain if a particular product gets the green light. Marblar rewards users who provide useful data or information by giving them "marbles," the websites namesake currency.
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They do have some sort of value accounting system in place. See the open value network model http://valuenetwork.referata.com/wiki/Value_accounting_system
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In the spirit of crowdsourcing, other Marblar users can help out a particular inventor whose idea they want to see come to life.
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"As you submit product ideas and contribute market data or technical data, you get more marbles," Perez said.
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The more marbles a person earns, the bigger the cut he or she gets in the royalty check if the product makes it to market.
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"Patent trolls buy up patents to extract money, with no intention of actually creating a product," he said. "Marblar is like the anti-troll. We're looking for new ways to commercialize."
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Why Great Innovations Fail: It's All in the Ecosystem - 0 views
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Michelin developed a revolutionary new kind of tire with sensors and an internal hard wheel that could run almost perfectly for 125 miles after a puncture.
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Mastery of the ecosystem is the great strength that made Apple the supreme success story of our time,
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In a world where mobile phone makers sold their devices to operators to sell to consumers, Jobs had such a powerful ecosystem that he could get operators to compete to partner with him: “And here was Apple, offering not just exclusive access to the most talked-about phone in history, but also exclusive access to Apple consumers—the most desirable customer segment imaginable
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How do you take the measure of the ecosystem that your innovation will need to be part of and rely on? How do you not miss the blind spots that can lurk almost anywhere?
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There are terrible pitfalls in the usual progression from prototype to pilot to rollout. It relies perilously on getting everything right from the very start. Often a far wiser and safer approach can be what Adner calls a “minimum viable footprint (MVF) rollout followed by a staged expansion.” In other words, start with a complete ecosystem, but a limited one.
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Business models for Open Hardware - 1 views
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Open Hardware is “a term for tangible artifacts — machines, devices, or other physical things — whose design has been released to the public in such a way that anyone can make, modify, distribute, and use those things“.
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overviews of Open Hardware can be found on Make Magazine’s Blog, MIT Technology Review, Computerworld, O’Reilly Radar.
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Lists of existing Open Hardware projects can be found on the GOpen Hardware 2009 website, on the P2P Foundation website (here and here), on Make Magazine’s Blog, Open Innovation Projects and Open Knowledge Foundation.