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IdeaConnection: What can we Solve for You? » May-10-11
INTERVIEW The Innovation Genome With Jeff DeGraff By Vern Burkhardt Companies can grow through acquisition or through innovation – making them better and new. [MORE INTERVIEWS] BOOKS Beyond the Familiar Long-term growth through customer focus and innovation. [MORE BOOKS] RESEARCH LABS $50,000 available for R&D labs interested in work [SIGNUP HERE] NEW INVENTIONS Human Antenna When a person touches a wall with electrical wiring behind it, their body can be used as an antenna. [MORE NEW INVENTIONS] VIDEO Pirate Fighting Recon Robot Fired from a cannon, this robot canstick to the side of a ship, scale up the hull to the deck, and start beaming video back to its handlers. [MORE VIDEOS] [SUBMIT YOUR VIDEO] BLOG Making Farm Fans Here's your chance to become a virtual farmer. MyFarm gives you the power to change how farming is done. [INNOVATION BLOG] COMMON GOOD A "wikipedia" of problems and solutions for the Common Good [ENTER] DID YOU KNOW Insect Meat Innovation competition awards team that plans to produce and market organic insect meat as an alternative, sustainable food source. [VIDEO] PROBLEM SOLVER Solver #24572: I invented an away-from-home water purification device that is as easy to use as a teabag. [MORE PROBLEM SOLVERS] [PROBLEM SOLVER SIGNUP] [PROBLEM SOLVERS WORK FOR YOU]	OPEN INNOVATION SUCCESS STORIES Global Search for Healthcare Ideas Using the principles of open innovation, Changemakers (a community of action where people collaborate on solutions to pressing problems) and the Robert Wood Johns Foundation (RWJF) launched an annual global open innovation competition for novel ideas to help people make better decisions about their health and the health of others. [MORE OPEN INNOVATION STORIES] [WHAT CAN WE SOLVE FOR YOU?] PROBLEM SOLVER INTERVIEWS Idea Jam: Exciting and Thought-Provoking Dr. Vijay Dalal has research experience in three institutes that spans over ten years after he received his MTech (Applied Botany) degree, which includes research work performed during his PhD. [MORE INTERVIEWS WITH PROBLEM SOLVERS] [BECOME A PROBLEM SOLVER TODAY] TECHNOLOGY FOR SALE OR LICENSE Method to Regulate Contents of Microbial Biomass Method for regulating contents of microbial biomass in one or more reactors in a biogas process, comprises mixing the microbial biomass with magnetic particle in the reactor; partially separating an expiring microbial biomass by a magnetic field mechanism through an outlet; and contacting the separated microbial biomass over reconducting mechanism in reactors for further use in biogas production. [THOUSANDS OF TECHNOLOGIES] [POST YOUR TECHNOLOGY] TECHNOLOGY SCOUTING $1,000 Help us find these technologies and earn $1,000 each: • Technologies and methods to enhance soybean yield, • Genetic and biotech approaches to improving crop yield, • Genetic and biotech approaches to control chewing insects, • Genetic and biotech approaches to improve drought tolerance. [FIND OUT MORE] RICE EVENTS Rice Events Partner To collaborate in commercializing your genetically modified (GM) Indica Bt rice events in India. [DETAILS HERE] [TECHNONOGY SCOUTING] RESEARCH Researchers Wanted [DETAILS HERE] [RESEARCH CHALLENGES] INNOVATION IN BUSINESS Three Pioneering Projects Win Coveted Vodafone and mHealth Alliance Wireless Innovation Awards Vodafone Americas Foundation™ launched the Wireless Innovation Project™ n 2008 to foster creativity and fund the most promising innovations with the potential to solve pressing issues around the globe. [INNOVATION IN BUSINESS] [POST YOUR INNOVATION IN BUSINESS STORY] RIGHT BRAIN WORKOUTS Balloon Brains Every time you do something, you find it easier to do again. That's how and why practice makes perfect. Unfortunately practice also makes bad habits just as difficult to break. And since we all have to think un-creatively some of the time, we run the risk of making creative thinking a challenge. [MORE RIGHT BRAIN WORKOUTS] UPCOMING CONVENTIONS Creativity Innovation Change Conference June 20-24 2011 Atlanta, GA, USA At most conferences, people sit and listen while presenters share stories and theory. CPSI is so much more. CPSI is about jumping in, learning by doing and interacting with leading experts. At CPSI you choose your learning path and experience tools, techniques and ideas you can apply immediately. [MORE CONVENTIONS] [FREE: ADD YOUR INNOVATION EVENT] INNOVATION CONTESTS Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2011 Contest Closes: Jun-12, 2011 Vodafone Mobile Clicks is an international contest to identify and develop the best, most innovative mobile internet start-ups. Vodafone Mobile Clicks is an international contest to identify and develop the best, most innovative mobile internet start-ups. [MORE INNOVATION CONTESTS] [FREE: POST YOUR INNOVATION CONTEST] [NOTIFY ME OF NEW CONTESTS POSTED] IDEACONNECTION'S MEMBERS' INNOVATION STORIES Slow Release Dissolving-in-water Log, Kills Mosquito Larvae My 1 (one) Kilo CreeLog, is wrapped in a water-degradable bag, and dropped into water. The Log releases formulas which help the Diatoms bloom, and this cleans up the Algae, adds oxygen to the water, and the other formula stops Mosquito Larvae from becoming adult. [MORE INNOVATION STORIES] [POST YOUR INNOVATION STORY] INVENTIONS FOR SALE Singular Kayak A new leisure boat concept developed to be light, detachable, easy to transport and with sail and engine options. Based on the ordinary kayak we all know, but with special characteristics to make it available to all kind of public. [MORE INVENTIONS FOR SALE] [SELL YOUR INVENTION]
The amount of innovation a company produces is inversely related to the number of slick PowerPoint slides or elaborate process diagrams it makes about innovation. – Jeff DeGraff