IdeaConnection Newsletter
BOOKS
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Serial Innovators
How individuals create and deliver breakthrough innovation in mature firms.
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CROWDFUNDING
Crowdfunding Works
Want to get your invention into production? Post your breakthrough product with a working prototype and get your friends, colleagues and extended network excited about funding your first production run!
[CROWDFUNDING]
NEW INVENTIONS
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Space Bread
Astronauts may soon be making fresh sandwiches in space thanks to a process created by 16-year-old Sam Wilkinson. 

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Smartphone Printer
Complete with a magnetic card reader, the SM-T3000 can print simple receipts from your smartphone or iPad. 
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BROCHURE
"Open Innovation: 
The Next Step." 
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VIDEO
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Polymer Vocal Cords
People with damaged vocal cords may one day regain their voices with the help of synthetic vocal cords. 
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INNOVATION ARTICLES
Crowdsharing Innovation
Share your innovation and collaboration insights with the world!
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INNOVATION ARTICLES
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Featured Article
Eight Key Dimensions to Sustainable Innovation
By Andy Beaulieu
Ignore any one of these eight important dimensions and you seriously risk the outcome of your innovation practices.
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BLOG
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Flip the Classroom
Teachers as facilitators? Students as interactive collaborators? Open innovation can empower student creativity and imagination.
[INNOVATION BLOG]
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INNOVATIVE PEOPLE
Innovative People
Promote Your Innovation Skills!
David Steeledeveloped a new drug formulation for two drugs with incompatible pH stability ranges.
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Did You Know...
that more than $1.5 billion was raised through crowdfunding websites last year?
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OPEN INNOVATION SUCCESS STORIES
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Creating a Green World with Open Innovation
The ScrapLab Design Contest was a global call for innovative and sustainable designs that transformed recycled waste into new products such as furniture and artwork. 
[MORE OPEN INNOVATION STORIES
[WHAT CAN WE SOLVE FOR YOU?]
Pet Hair Removal Challenge

TECH SCOUTING
Phase Change Material
More than 20% volumetric expansion with less than a 20°C temperature change. 
$2,000 for an accepted lead.
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TECH SCOUTING
Looking for Technologies?Unleash our network of researchers to find the technologies you require.

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PROBLEM SOLVER INTERVIEWS
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Work on New Projects without Switching Your Job
I learned a lot from the process of being in a virtual team. You can meet new people, work with new people and work on new projects without switching your job. That is very exciting. 
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POSITION AVAILABLE
Group Leader, Agronomic Traits
Group Leader, Agronomic Traits
Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. is seeking a 
Group Leader, Agronomic Traits, to work in Beijing, China. Must be fluent in English.
Who do you know who could fill this position? Submit your lead, and if it's accepted, you will receive $2,000.
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TECHNOLOGY MARKETPLACE
Prevention, Treatment and Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease through Electromagnetic Field Exposure
A method of treating a neurological disorder, such as Alzheimer's Disease, by positioning an electromagnetic field emitting source proximal to the subject having a predetermined frequency for a predetermined absorption period. 
[THOUSANDS OF TECHNOLOGIES]
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RIGHT BRAIN WORKOUTS
Right Brain Workout
Are You Pretending to be Creative?
Behind positive reinforcement is the idea that the first hurdle in developing your creativity is gaining the belief that you are creative. Without the belief, you won't even try, and you'll never succeed. 
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PRIOR ART CITATION SEARCH
Prior art citation search
Patent Litigation Research
Instead of using passive, traditional search procedures, IdeaConnection incentivizes its global network to reach out to "their" networks in an expanding ripple-effect search. If you have used sources such as USPTO EAST System, Delphion®, LexisNexis®, Dialog®, Derwent WPI®, INPADOC®, MicroPatent PatentWeb®, etc., without success, it's time to try IdeaConnection's unique PACS service. 
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IDEACONNECTION CROWDFUNDING
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Crowdfund Your Research
Post a research project that requires funding, and invite friends, colleagues and the scientific community, as well as the business world, to help fund it. 
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INNOVATION CONVENTIONS & EVENTS
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SA Innovation Summit
Aug-29, 2013
Johannesburg, South Africa
The summit brings together leaders, executives, government, NGOs, entrepreneurs, academics, innovators, inventors, decision makers, CEO's and the youth. We will have thought leaders exploring the latest thinking on innovation practice, practical case studies, lessons learned, new theories and applications.
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WALL OF FAME / INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR
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Who Will Be the Innovator of the Year?
Post yourself or someone you know on the Innovator's Wall of Fame, and vote for the Innovator of the Year!
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INNOVATION CONTESTS
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MicroPact Innovation Challenge
Contest Closes: Dec-31-12
The Innovation Challenge Program is an opportunity for innovators to propose new business applications to be built on the MicroPact entellitrak platform. 
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INVENTIONS FOR SALE
Text-to-Voice Machine Translation
Write in one language, see and hear, immediately, the translation in another language. For example, write in German, see and hear the translation in English, immediately, without needing another, external program to read aloud the translation.
[MORE INVENTIONS FOR SALE]
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In an organization focused on survival, no fear means no risk, 
and no risk-taking means, paradoxically, that your survival is at risk!

– Dov Frohman