Open Innovation, crowdsourcing, co-creation… overlapping terminologies to describe a trend towards more open business models and a closer collaboration with customers. On this page we gather a list of inspiring examples.
↳A marker and a sheet of paper
↳PowerPoint / Keynote
↳Smartphone sketch templates
↳Explainer video generators
↳POP-app by Marvel
↳Proto.io
↳Invision
↳Craft
↳Sketch
↳Photoshop
01. Research & development platforms
Innocentive – open innovation problem solving
IdeaConnection – idea marketplace and problem-solving
Yet2.com – IP market place
PRESANS (beta) – connect and solve R&D problems
Hypios – online problem solving
Innoget – research intermediary platform
One Billion Minds – online (social) challenges
NineSigma – technology problem solving
Ideaken – collaborative crowdsourcing
Innovation-community.de – Community of innovators & creators.
02. Marketing, design & idea platforms
CMNTY Corporation – community co-creation
Innovation Exchange – open innovation market place
Guerra Creativa – crowdsourcing anything creative
Brand Tags – tagging brands
Battle of concepts – student challenges
crowdSPRING – creative designs
LeadVine – crowdsourcing lead generation
Viima – idea management software
Yambla – idea management software
99designs – pioneer in design crowdsourcing
Edge Amsterdam – elite sourcing platform
OpenIDEO – collaborative design platform
Challenge.gov – crowdsourcing for government problems
eYeka – the co-creation community
Spigit – social innovation platform
Zooppa – Branding/marketing platform
03. Collective intelligence & prediction platforms
Lumenogic – collective intelligence markets
Ushahidi – crowdsourcing crisis information
Kaggle – data mining and forecasting
Google Image Labeler – crowdsourced image labeling
04. HR & freelancers platforms
TopCoder – competition-based software crowdsourcing
Spudaroo – crowdsourcing copywriting
Clickworker – small online task solving
Amazon Mechanical Turk – low-cost crowdsourcing
05. Open innovation software
Imaginatik – collective intelligence software
Venture Spirit – gamification platform
Wellspring Worldwide– open innovation software
06. Intermediary open innovation services
Big Idea Group – organize innovation contests and idea hunts
Pharmalicensing – open innovation for the life sciences
Chaordix – crowdsourcing engine for innovation
DataStation – complete innovation platform
Funding Circle – p2p lending
Linux – open source software
Wikipedia – peer produced encyclopedia
Yahoo Answers – crowdsourced Q&A
Spreadshirt – shirt community
Threadless – create and sell your t-shirts
cafepress – shop, create or sell what’s on your mind
zazzle – create and sell products
CreateMyTattoo – crowdsourced tattoo design
Artistshare – fans funding new artists
Quirky – community product development
jovoto – co-creation & mass collaboration
Mookum– co-creating lifestyle & interior products
Userfarm – co-creating platform for Video makers
01. Product ideas crowdsourcing
BMW Customer Innovation Lab – in german
InnovationJam* – IBM’s idea generation project
Dell IdeaStorm – external idea sourcing
My Startbucks Idea – shaping the future of Starbucks
Connect + Develop – Innovation platform by P&G
02. Branding & design crowdsourcing
Peugeot – Peugeot’s design contest
Fluevog – open shoe design
BurdaStyle – open source sewing
iBridge Network – platform for university innovation
Science Commons– generic license agreements
Picnic Green Challenge – ideas to save the planet
Fold it – solve puzzles for science
Galaxy Zoo – discovering the universe
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