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IdeaConnection: What can we Solve for You? » Jun-28-11
INTERVIEW Solving Customers' Frictions With Gijs van Wulfen By Vern Burkhardt New products and services must solve an existing and relevant friction. [MORE INTERVIEWS] BOOKS Think Fast! Accurate decision-making, problem solving, and planning in minutes a day. [MORE BOOKS] RESEARCH LABS $50,000 available for R&D labs interested in work [SIGNUP HERE] NEW INVENTIONS Campfire Phone Charger Inspired by the troubles in Japan, a new Japanese cooking pot is able to harness the heat from a pot of boiling water to charge a smartphone. [MORE NEW INVENTIONS] VIDEO Moving Platforms Who needs a train station when you transfer trains using a moving platform? [MORE VIDEOS] [SUBMIT YOUR VIDEO] MATERIAL SCIENTISTS Material Scientists wanted for four new challenges. [REGISTER HERE] REFERRALS Know an Expert? By referring your expert friends and colleagues, you can earn $500. [FIND OUT MORE] BLOG The Future of Vehicle Design Local Motor's design success is based on open sourced design contests. [INNOVATION BLOG] COMMON GOOD A "wikipedia" of problems and solutions for the Common Good [ENTER] PROBLEM SOLVER Solver #26701: I developed a patented vertical windmill. [MORE PROBLEM SOLVERS] [PROBLEM SOLVER SIGNUP] [PROBLEM SOLVERS WORK FOR YOU] TECH FOR SALE 100s of new listings each week. Contact IP owner directly. [VIEW TECH LISTINGS]	OPEN INNOVATION SUCCESS STORIES Crowdsourcing Climate Change Solutions The Government of British Columbia turns to open innovation and the crowd to raise awareness of climate change and promote action to reduce the carbon footprint. [MORE OPEN INNOVATION STORIES] [WHAT CAN WE SOLVE FOR YOU?] POSITION AVAILABLE Regional Head of Corn R&D, LATAM Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. is seeking a Regional Head of Corn R&D to lead achievement of Corn breeding and trait program objectives within Latin America through effective execution of authorized projects and leadership of Corn Breeding Project Leads and Genetic Project Leads. [DETAILS HERE] RESEARCH PROJECT Genetic Simulation Platform – $10,000 Find a Group that can create a genetic simulation program that will work for any diploid plant species to simulate a variety of genetic and breeding population types, including the flexibility to address novel population types. [DETAILS HERE] TECHNOLOGY FOR SALE OR LICENSE Belief Propagation for Generalized Matching Entities may be matched to enhance the efficiency of various commercial activities using various system and method embodiments of the disclosed subject matter. Belief propagation on a graph data structure defining a bipartite or unipartite matching opportunity is used to calculate a best matching. [THOUSANDS OF TECHNOLOGIES] [POST YOUR TECHNOLOGY] TECHNOLOGY SCOUTING Technology Search Find these technologies, $2,000 for each accepted lead: • Biotech approaches to increasing nitrogen use efficiency, • 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 Up to $7,000 to find a partner to commercialize genetically modified (GM) Indica Bt rice events in India. [DETAILS HERE] [TECHNONOGY SCOUTING] RESEARCH Synthetic Genes $10,000 to find any non-patent literature, presentations, etc. publically disclosed or described. [DETAILS HERE] [MORE RESEARCH CHALLENGES] RIGHT BRAIN WORKOUTS Columbo: The Opposite of Everything Try to find a better case for breaking with convention than Columbo, one of television's most successful detective series. Columbo has been called a how-done-it. As each episode begins, viewers see who commits the crime Lieutenant Columbo will solve. [MORE RIGHT BRAIN WORKOUTS] UPCOMING CONVENTIONS Enterprise Tomorow Sep 13-15, 2011 San Francisco, CA, USA The future of management strategies, workforce integration and disruptive technologies that inspire rapid innovation and enhance performance and profitability. The future of the enterprise is here and now, but organizations are having trouble realizing the possibilities and implementing the technologies of tomorrow, today. [MORE CONVENTIONS] [FREE: ADD YOUR INNOVATION EVENT] INNOVATION CONTESTS MeriTalk 2011 Innovation Nation Forum Contest Closes: Aug-01, 2011 The Merit Awards is a new innovation contest that challenges the world to come forth with ideas on how to use IT to improve the quality of government. Focused on incenting people to get involved, the award offers a $50,000 prize for smart, new thinking. [MORE INNOVATION CONTESTS] [FREE: POST YOUR INNOVATION CONTEST] [NOTIFY ME OF NEW CONTESTS POSTED] CITATION SEARCH Prior Art Citation Search Clients have found that IdeaConnection is extraordinarily successful at finding obscure citations. [DETAILS HERE] FUNDING Funding Available Many companies are actively seeking to invest in emerging technologies that have been proven to work. [DETAILS HERE] IDEACONNECTION'S MEMBERS' INNOVATION STORIES If You Have No Enemies, Just Invent Something So many, backed with so much money and state-of-the-art labs, have worked so hard for so long to develop an efficient and non-polluting engine, but failed miserably, while I as individual on budget $100/month, without any lab or machining facility, created a clean and efficient engine on my own. [MORE INNOVATION STORIES] [POST YOUR INNOVATION STORY] INVENTIONS FOR SALE Bio-Mass Gasifier System and Engine This is a system for efficient conversion of bio-mass waste/ residue into useful inflammable gas i.e. the producer gas. The bio-waste may include agricultural residues, wood chips, straws etc. which in turn can be used to run an engine, stoves and furnace etc. [MORE INVENTIONS FOR SALE] [SELL YOUR INVENTION]
If you stop innovating for too long you will end up failing financially. – Gijs van Wulfen