Month: February 2019

Public online voting has now ended and we are delighted to share the names of the final nominees in each of the 12 categories of the first annual BOLD Awards. The online votes that were cast will count for 50% of the final decisions, and the introduction of our international panel of judges to the … Read more

Tech headlines today herald the potential impact of blockchain technology on industries such as crowdsourcing, transportation, and inter-company collaboration (supply chains). We’re inundated today with projects targeting these markets and many people think it’s quite likely these markets will be the first to see significant disruption. Or could blockchain’s most profound impact actually be elsewhere? … Read more

Open innovation is a term coined by Henry Chesbrough in his 2003 book, “Open Innovation: The new imperative for creating and profiting from technology”. Open Innovation assumes that valuable ideas can come from inside or out of the company and can go to the market from inside or outside the company as well. At the … Read more

We’re getting increasingly used to witnessing the commercial disruption taking place due to mass digital connectivity giving rise to new business models. In many instances it’s where existing players in a market place come under threat from newcomers who have torn up the old play book, and if the incumbents are unable to respond well … Read more

Maintaining the spirit of the wisdom and strength of a crowd, we are very grateful for the inputs from an extremely impressive collection of BOLD Award Advisors. We really appreciate the time they have been able to set aside in their schedules to help shape up the inaugural edition of our international annual awards for … Read more

The past decade has raised the bar in open innovation, particularly the last year. As celebrated at the Crowdsourcing Week 2018 global conference, we’ve recently maximized the power of the group and pushed scientific and technical ideas to their potential. Or have we? The first-annual BOLD Awards argue that we expect way more innovation in the … Read more

Managing change within an organization is never easy since a company is essentially formed by people, and people are not usually easy to change because of cultural factors (the culture of the country, the industry, the company itself, and so on). The ennomotive platform hosts open innovation challenges that are based around engineering projects. Despite … Read more

crowdsourcing is aiding advances in the robotics industry. This week alone we’ve seen stories concerning robots entering the healthcare industry, further advances in self-driving car technology, and even talking toilets.

No matter the scale of your business or the specific nature of your target audience, content marketing has a huge role to play in your overall advertising strategy. However, you may not have unlimited resources to allocate to content marketing, or maybe you may want to integrate your customers or employees into the content itself. … Read more

From unknown, to renowned, to unknown again, blockchain technology’s past year has been tumultuous. Optimism abounded at the beginning of 2018. A technological revolution was happening. However, the outcome of that revolution was much more sobering. Today, in the aftermath of a ravaged digital assets market, which is the most publicly recognized use of blockchain technology, … Read more

For centuries, science has been the pursuit of amateur, self-funded and self-motivated scientists: Sir Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin and Thomas Edison – to name just a few. However, in the first half of the 20th century, science became dominated by researchers employed by universities and government research laboratories. It isn’t surprising: the scientific revolutions of the … Read more

Cryptocurrencies are massively disrupting the financial sector. This time last year we witnessed something amazing for the first time in history: people became aware of cryptocurrencies at large and started actively buying them, resulting in massive price jumps in value of specific coins. Bitcoin was the leader of this movement, and it is still the … Read more

Just two decades ago, the worldwide web was an uncharted universe. It was so unmapped, companies became billion-dollar brands based on organizing it. Netscape, one of the world’s first widely adopted browsers, turned company co-founder Marc Andreessen into the new economy poster child. A few years before, Yahoo! was audacious enough to be the Yellow Pages for the … Read more