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INTERVIEW
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An Open Source Business Model
With John Conoley
By Vern Burkhardt
Our differentiation strategy is made up of three components: Modularity, Open Innovation, and Customization.
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BOOKS
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The Winner's Brain
Eight strategies great minds use to achieve success.
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NEW INVENTIONS
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Salamander Eggs Stop Tumor Growth
An extract from the eggs of the axolotl salamander has been found to activate the tumor suppressor genes of cancer cells.
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VIDEO
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Knifefish Inspired Sub
Scientists have designed a submarine mimicking the knifefish, a fish that can move in any direction using just one fin.
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Developing Innovation Talent
Cultivating an innovative culture is a team effort between employers and employees.
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IP SOURCING
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OPEN INNOVATION SUCCESS STORIES
logo Mobile Phone Giant Reaches Out to Open Innovation Intermediary
An open innovation broker helps mobile phone company Orange UK to devise, launch and manage a mobile phone app crowdsourcing initiative.
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ATTENTION ECONOMISTS
IdeaConnection is seeking two economists to play a major role in developing an economic model. If interested please email experience in developing economic models.
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TECHNOLOGY FOR SALE OR LICENSE
Predictive Event-Tracking Method
The invention provides a predictive model that improves I/O efficiency in file caching, distributed system events such as http requests, and low-level I/O events, and offers a method for data compression as well.
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Open Innovation

RIGHT BRAIN WORKOUTS
photo of Right Brain WorkoutThe Importance of Following
If you feel passionate enough about something to want to start a movement, you might want to consider a less demanding alternative. Rather than create the movement, you might want to find one you can embrace and jump in as it’s first follower. It’s a less demanding role, slightly more secure, and according to Derek Sivers, a more important role than that of the leader.
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UPCOMING CONVENTIONS
Logo Fostering Innovation and Technology in Digestive and Metabolic Diseases
Mar 25-26, 2011
Palo Alto, California, USA
The conference is intended for GI physician inventors, clinical investigators, medical device companies and investors to learn about the issues one must consider when bringing new technologies to the market.
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PROBLEM SOLVER INTERVIEWS
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Dr. Sandip Bharate has a PhD in Natural Products Chemistry from India with a postdoctoral experience in Medicinal Chemistry from USA. He is a pharmacist by profession and is interested in natural products and medicinal chemistry.
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INNOVATION CONTESTS
logoGE Ecomagination Challenge: Powering Your Home
Contest Closes: Mar-01, 2011
Phase II of the ecomagination Challenge focuses on Powering Your Home. We are looking for innovative ideas about capturing, managing, and using energy in the home. GE will present each of five innovation challenge award recipients with $100,000 in cash, for a total of $500,000, to acknowledge these entries as examples of outstanding entrepreneurship and innovation.
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INNOVATIVE PEOPLE
Market yourself by developing your Innovative People Page. Join an exclusive network of Innovative People. It's Free! Connect with other innovators... List your inventions... Connect to your innovative friends and colleagues... Innovators in all fields are invited to create your own profile page. Authors, inventors, consultants, engineers, scientists... build your innovation profile page today, then Twitter it to your friends, and link to it from your LinkedIn and Facebook pages.
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IDEACONNECTION'S MEMBERS' INNOVATION STORIES
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I call this an innovation story because the creative team I led not only scored a long-lived creative victory, we worked as a team to innovate on three levels.
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COMPANIES THAT CROWDSOURCE
logo The Future of Analytics
By Daniel Gold, Director
Just about every modern organization relies heavily on statistical thinking. Banks predict which loan applicants are likely to default, government treasuries forecast tax revenues, websites make personalized product recommendations, hedge funds crunch data to find trading opportunities and bioinformaticians search for links between genetic markers and disease.
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INVENTIONS FOR SALE
photo of target light Worlds First Trailer Reversing and Manouvering Device
TargetLight™ dramatically improves driving safety for parking, reversing, and manoeuvring in adverse light conditions. You can manoeuver, reverse and recognise the size of your trailer with absolute peace of mind. A side-marker lamp of light clearly indicates where your trailer ends and shows boundaries and obstacles.
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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
– Rita Mae Brown