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INTERVIEW
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Understanding Creativity
With Michael Michalko
By Vern Burkhardt
Imagination gives us the impertinence to imagine making the impossible possible.
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BOOKS
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Race Against the Machine
How the digital revolution is accelerating innovation, driving productivity, and irreversibly transforming employment and the economy.
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Innovation Resources for Companies

NEW INVENTIONS
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Fracture Putty
This gel created from adult stem cells, could heal bone fractures in less than two weeks.
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BROCHURE
"Open Innovation:
The Next Step."
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VIDEO
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Fighting Cancer with Electric Fields
Tumor Treating Fields could eventually lead to a method of curing solid tumors
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INNOVATION ARTICLES
Submit Your Innovation Articles
Post your scholarly and informative articles about innovation. Share your knowledge with others interested in innovation and crowdsourcing.
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BLOG
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Open Innovation Campus
A first-ever open innovation bioscience campus for early-stage drug discovery and development has opened in Britain.
[INNOVATION BLOG]
PROBLEM SOLVER
Problem Solvers

Solver #30695:
I developped a new technique using flux cytometry to confirm internatization of differenciation cluster CD33 on AML cells.
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Open Innovation 2012
Meet IdeaConnection at the
Open Innovation Conference 2012
in Philadelphia, PA, Apr 16-18.
Contact Jim or meet us at our Cocktail Reception.

OPEN INNOVATION SUCCESS STORIES
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Mind-Blowing Ideas from Open Innovation
When Zyxio, a start-up human media interaction company developed a new breath control technology it asked the crowd for ideas on how the innovation could be used.
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TECH SCOUTING
Yeast Strains
Seeking yeast strains for ethanol production.
$10,000 for an acceped lead.
[DETAILS HERE]

TECH SCOUTING
Partner Wanted
For high-throughput small RNA screening systems.
$10,000 for an accepted lead.
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CITATION SEARCH
Hueing Dye
Seeking prior art citations in the technology area of hueing dyes for fabric.
$10,000 for an acceped lead.
[DETAILS HERE]

CITATION SEARCH
Detergent Package
Seeking prior art citations regarding water-soluble detergent packages.
$10,000 for an accepted lead.
[DETAILS HERE]
Problem Solving Perfected

TECHNOLOGY FOR SALE OR LICENSE
Modulators of Odorant Receptors
The present invention relates to polypeptides capable of promoting odorant receptor cell surface localization and odorant receptor functional expression. The present invention further provides assays for the detection of ligands specific for various odorant receptors.
[THOUSANDS OF TECHNOLOGIES]
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PROBLEM SOLVER INTERVIEWS
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Excited to have Her Work Recognized
"I was happy and excited because I felt my work was really recognized. I really put a lot of effort into the challenge, and so did the rest of the team."
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TECH SCOUTING
Metal Adhesives
Seeking organic polymer pressure sensitive adhesives for metals.
$2,000 for an acceped lead.
[DETAILS HERE]

TECH SCOUTING
Planting Equipment
Seeking design and development of precision planting equipment.
$10,000 for an accepted lead.
[DETAILS HERE]
POSITION AVAILABLE
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Corn Genetic Project Lead
Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. is seeking a Corn Genetic Project Lead to work in Changchun, China.
$2,000 for an accepted lead.
[DETAILS HERE]
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RIGHT BRAIN WORKOUTS
Right Brain Workout
Bad Invention: Gender Words
Why in the world did we ever decided to establish separate and hardly equal pronouns to distinguish between our two genders? Bad inventions, and this one in particular, make life more troublesome than it needs to be. And who needs that?
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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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Front End of Innovation
May 15-17, 2012
Orlando Florida, USA
There are no hierarchies at FEI. Everyone there is a senior leader with something to contribute. Choose from 8 different learning formats that encourage sharing, collaboration, and interactivity.
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INNOVATION CONTESTS
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Cisco British Innovation Gateway Awards
Contest Closes: Mar-31-12
The BIG Awards aims to recognise and support up-and-coming innovators, entrepreneurs and early-stage startup businesses. We are seeking submissions from small businesses and early stage startups which have technology-based prototypes and proof of concepts (PoC) in development.
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INVENTIONS FOR SALE
Vehicle Emergency Brake and Anti-Jackknife System
The Boros Anti-Jackknifing/Emergency Brake System is so superior to any other braking system it will revolutionize the way trailers will be manufactured in the near future. We believe it will become mandatory on all tractor-trailers transporting flammables, corrosives, radio-active and hazardous waste.
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People who are creative believe they are, and
people who are not believe they are not creative.

– Micheal Michalko