IdeaConnection Newsletter
INTERVIEW
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The 'Good Show"
With Bill Capodagli
By Vern Burkhardt
It takes passion to create an innovative customer-centric culture. 
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BOOKS
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Innovation Strategy
Seven keys to creative leadership and a sustainable business model.
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NEW INVENTIONS
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Joggobot
The Joggobot quadcopter keeps you company as you run, and encourages you to increase performance. 

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Dynamic Touchscreens
Now your flat touchscreen can incorporate tactile popup buttons that rise up when needed. 
[MORE NEW INVENTIONS]
BROCHURE
"Open Innovation: 
The Next Step." 
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VIDEO
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Mining Brine
Using bacteria, minerals such as magnesium can be extracted from the brine left over from the desalination process, creating a billion dollar, ecologically friendly mining industry. 
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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
3 Ways to Productively Rest Your Brain
By Matthew E. May
The challenge is to take the type of break that encourages creative connections that can lead to breakthroughs.
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BLOG
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Five Open Innovation Tips
General Mills' Jeff Bellairs offers advice to companies on how to use open innovation.
[INNOVATION BLOG]
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INNOVATIVE PEOPLE
Innovative People
Promote Your Innovation Skills!
Ed Goodwin created several high-throughput screens that successfully identified genes required for viral infection.
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OPEN INNOVATION SUCCESS STORIES
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NLM Show Off Your Apps Challenge
Apps contests have the potential to transform seemingly dry data sets into ingenious programs that can provide better public services, easier access to information, and even improve health. 
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TECHNOLOGY SCOUTING
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Nematode Detection RFP
A major agribusiness corporation is seeking technology to enable simple, semi-quantitative, cost-effective, field-based diagnosis of nematode populations in soybean fields. 
$10,000 for each accepted lead.
[MORE INFO]
Nova Innovation Competition 2012

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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Pet Hair Removal Challenge

PROBLEM SOLVER INTERVIEWS
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Getting Out of My Comfort Zone
I wanted to try something new and force myself to get out of my comfort zone and interact with a group of people that I didn't know on something that was a stretch for me. 
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POSITION AVAILABLE
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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
Asymmetric Disc Distracting Cage
An inter-vertebral cage with a wedge shape eccentrically located on the leading end of the cage. The ectopically shaped leading edge of this embodiment facilitates easier interbody spacer placement with less risk of nerve injury, as well as with likely decreased risk of destruction of the end plate during the distraction process when the interbody cage is impacted. 
[THOUSANDS OF TECHNOLOGIES]
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Don't know which way to turn

RIGHT BRAIN WORKOUTS
Right Brain Workout
Tell Me a Story
Storytelling as the way to do business, as the way to speak to your market, as the way to lead people... Talk about your message as anything but storytelling today and you will be practically accused of committing a crime. 
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IDEA RALLY
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Idea Rally
Invite hundreds of IdeaConnection's targeted experts to participate in an Idea Rally focused on your topic of choice. Top thinkers and innovators with expertise in your topic area will come together in a virtual think tank for a week-long dialogue, feeding off each other's ideas and coming up with new approaches and solutions to your challenge. 
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INNOVATION CONVENTIONS & EVENTS
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BioNano Innovation Conference 2012
July 18-20, 2013
Brisbane, Australia
The 1st International Conference on BioNano Innovation (ICBNI) provides a wonderful multi-disciplinary forum to connect scientists, researchers and entrepreneurs in this rapidly expanding area.
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WALL OF FAME / INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR
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Who Will Be the Innovator of the Year?
Top posting as of today is the Advanced Materials Enabled Innovation Competition winners for their seat-belt safety system that reduces injuries and deaths due to seat belt force in a collision. Who will you vote for?
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INNOVATION CONTESTS
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IBX Game Changers Challenge
Contest Closes: Jul-10-12
Do you have a great idea that would help improve the health and wellness of the Philadelphia region? The Challenge seeks to harness the creative energies of our community by soliciting proposals that can impact wellness indicators and improve our region's health. $50,000. 
[MORE INNOVATION CONTESTS]
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INVENTIONS FOR SALE
Question Answering
Our Question-answering software program understands your question and gives an answer to it. Designed to show understanding of Natural Language and help you practice your English (German). 
[MORE INVENTIONS FOR SALE]
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We work really hard but we play really hard too. And the harder we work and the 
harder we play, the more creativity just kind of overflows.

– John Lasseter