February 2012
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Want, Find, Get and Finally MANAGE innovation →
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WatchGiants working with giants - Launch
Pretty impressive line up of collaborating partners, NASA, USAID, Department of State, and Nike joined together to form LAUNCH in an effort to identify, showcase and support innovative approaches to global challenges through a series of forums.
http://launch.org/
January 2012
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Watch(via A New Model for Innovation: Fast Track Innovation by @open_innovate)
October 2011
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Trying to standardize the taxonomy of...
The Daily Crowdsource suggest the following official taxonomy for crowdsourcing: Microtasks, Macrotasks, Crowdfunding, Crowd Contests.
A standard set of categories would help the area develop best practices and a unified way of handling common problems.
http://dailycrowdsource.com/downloads/umbrella-of-crowdsourcing.pdf
September 2011
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– Nike Jumps Into Venture Capital to Fund Green Start-Ups
July 2011
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Key findings at Globe Forum Stockholm 2011
We would like to thank all delegates and partners for sharing your ideas and experiences around sustainable development at this year Globe Forum in Stockholm.
During the day we tried to clarify how partners of Globe Forum can join forces to drive sustainable innovations to the market faster. Working through the program seven keys to create a win-win partnership became more obvious: Education,...
June 2011
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Open-Sourced Ecology (video)
feedmyday:
May 2011
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Marketplace - short rundown of the discussion at...
Diogo, Randy and Matt shared their thoughts on the rise of social media and how the wealth of collaborative online services interconnects the world.
To create a well-working marketplace, trust has to be created in a convenient environment for all different groups, to ensure that everyone is collaborating on equal terms.
Examples that were discussed were:
The UN led Reseach4Life that MS...
April 2011
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Greenwashing in classic 70s-style
Want to be perceived as “green” throw an event or launch something for Earth Day! Duh.
40 years later, advertisers are still talking about the same things. Does it work? Consumers let’s Get Real! Companies doesn’t seem to manage on their own.
March 2011
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Innovative ideas for social interaction
Digital communication offers a possibility to preserve the environment and save time, but how can we continue improving our life in a digitized world without losing the social interaction?
While discussing our roadmap towards a sustainble future from a human perspective, Adam Brännström from Eskilstuna Energi & Miljö, placed the challenge: Innovative ideas for social interaction
The...
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What is worth innovating for?
Everyone that have walked across the bridge Nybron in Eskilstuna and experienced the exhibition Hard Rain by photographer Mark Edwards must have felt that the need for peaceful and sustainable innovations is crucial.
Using the eye-opening exhibition Hard Rain, Sida is in collaboration with Globe Forums extensive network challenging all innovators and citizens to think creatively around what is...
Wildflower →
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What is the D word doing in the country name?
“If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”
…and that goes for all these countries:
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The Democratic Republic of the Congo. The German Democratic Republic.
The original quote comes from the iron lady Thatcher:
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”
- Margaret Thatcher
MT, GT,...
“When we started, we thought we were looking for smart people, but it turned out...”
– Paul Graham - Money Man - Entrepreneur.com (via bijan)
Good intentions for life and people!
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To make the cities truly inclusive we need the...
To develop the smart cities of tomorrow it is in our own interest to stay informed about urban development. In the near future our public services will be crowdsourced and in every point of contact with the government data will be gathered from the citizens who will lead to how public services will be designed and carried out.
Therefore, to make the cities truly inclusive we need the brains of...
February 2011
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Can a PepsiCo-Powered Crowd of Scientists Rescue...
BY ARIEL SCHWARTZThu Feb 10, 2011
Infant mortality in many developing countries is high (3.6 million children dying each year in the neonatal period), but it could easily be averted by reducing the deficiencies of micronutrients (i.e. folic acid) in women of childbearing age.
January 2011
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How to map and categorize sustainable innovations,...
Would this map cover all sustainable innovations out there? Would it categorize all the shared challenges we have in the world?
http://www.mindmeister.com/78453511/marketplace-how-to-categorize-innovations
Just after a glance you will probably notice that it is no way near complete, hopefully it will never be complete since we continuously improve the way we do business. However, if you have any...
December 2010
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WatchHalla Tomasdottir: A feminine response to Iceland’s financial crash | Video on TED.com
November 2010
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October 2010
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richgirl talk! what did the poor boy hear?
So far rich girl have spoken for months, but if you would like to see what the poor boy heard - click the image above!
Words are fun and powerful!
Annelie
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We take all ecosystem services for granted
Now it is time to envision what business could look like in the not too distant future.
Why?
Until now we have ignored the fact that we are using up the Natural Capital rather than living of Nature’s interest. The ecosystem services (ESS) are all the services that other living organisms create for us, such as production of food and timber, regulating services such as climate regulation,...
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What IS the Girl Effect?
It’s when the 600 million adolescent girls in the developing world get a chance to grow into healthy, active and educated members of their societies. When this occurs, the girls will transform their families and communities prospects, ensuring that The Millennium Development Goals* are met. A step in this direction, in inspiring girls globally, occurred at a ceremony in Stockholm, when The...
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Abandon conventional economics
I recommend, Can we afford the Future? The economics of a warming world by Frank Ackerman. After reading the book I am off to a fresh start! I abandoned conventional economics saying we should slow down fighting climate change. Developing the Internet and building war toys with public means was never considered too expensive, so why shouldn’t we spend on a stabilizing our future climate? Go...
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August 2010
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June 2010
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“What you end up with is a kind of Apple archipelago—this cluster of islands in...”
– Paul Saffo, Silicon Valley futurist
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Ecosystem of Partners - Instead of talking about...
When I started out to explore the Open Innovation field in collaboration with Unilever, I researched how to make the sometimes arbitrary Open Innovation into a well managed process.
Today I am not talking about Open Innovation anymore; instead the model I developed is a set of tools on how to create an Ecosystem of Partners. Ecosystems are a new way of looking at Open Innovation and...
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Tapping the crowd for sustainable ideas & funding →
If crowdsourcing can be used to help tackle economic problems in Ireland—not to mention those of the more personal kind—then why not the global environmental imperative?
- Johan Lofmark
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May 2010
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Rothwell’s five generations of innovation models «... →
April 2010
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WatchObama: ‘Little to fear’
Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com
“NESTA Announces Top 100 Open Innovation Global Winners: http://bit.ly/ddK71e via...”
– richgirlpoorboy
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““they might break and they might fall but you know the girls from New...”
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt6Co7EMNCU&NR=1
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Open Innovation the Malcolm Mclaren way!
Fashion, Music and Dancing have a lot to thank Malcolm Mclaren for. Back in the days, lets say in 1971, when collaboration was called partnership, McLaren and his partner Vivienne Westwood opened up a London clothing shop called Let It Rock on the Kings Road. Open minded Mclaren continued to innovate, 1975 he was managing a band called The Strand, when he spotted an external source, Johnny...
March 2010
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Green ICT -innovation is key element to spur green...
Information and communication technologies are definitely of central importance when it comes to improving environmental performance and address topics like climate change across the economy. The biggest gains for smarter environmental and economic strategies and applications are in power generation and distribution, buildings and transportation – three areas which contribute to the bulk of...