by Albert Meige | Jan 4, 2011 | PRESANS
On the 18th of January 2011, PRESANS introduces X-Search (x-search.presans.com), worldwide expert search engine. (1) X-Search crawls tens of millions of scientific sources (scientific literature, patents, research center websites etc.). (2) X-Search indexes and...
by Albert Meige | Dec 21, 2010 | INNOVATION
How can we ensure that the Need is broadcast to the right potential experts, without narrowing or broadening too much the broadcast and and do we ensure that we manage to engage these potential experts? Tradeoff between targeting and large broadcast To maximize the...
by Albert Meige | Dec 14, 2010 | INNOVATION
As an intermediary, how can you constantly find new and interested solvers around the world (i.e. people ready to propose solutions to technological problems)? You need efficient incentives to attract them on your platform, to make them subscribe, to engage them in...
by Albert Meige | Dec 7, 2010 | INNOVATION
The way Open Innovation crowdsourcing platforms work is rather simple, at least in principle: they help companies to match a problem or a need to an existing solution or to somebody able to solve the problem. Underlying requirements are (i) a large pool of problems,...
by Albert Meige | Dec 2, 2010 | INNOVATION
Dr Letizia Mortara, Research Associate at the Institute for Manufacturing’s Centre for Technology Management (University of Cambridge) has just released a new report on Open Innovation. The idea is that the new paradigm of Open Innovation is an innovation itself and...
