IdeaConnection Newsletter
INTERVIEW
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The Impact of Social Media on Open Innovation
With Stefan Lindegaard
By Paul Arnold
Interaction and involvement are key elements for both open innovation and social media.
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BOOKS
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Social Media for Corporate Innovators and Entrepreneurs
Add power to your innovation efforts.
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Free marketing for your patented technologies

NEW INVENTIONS
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Fight the Bite
Therapik delivers a precise application of heat to relieve itching and pain from mosquitoe bites and 20,000 other types of bites.

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Skypump
The Sanya Skypump is the world's first fully integrated wind-powered EV charging station, now fully functional in Barcelona, Spain.
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BROCHURE
"Open Innovation:
The Next Step."
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VIDEO
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Femto Photography
Using femto photography, scientists have the potential to look around corners and create the next generation of medical imaging.
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INNOVATION ARTICLES
Crowdsharing Innovation
Share your innovation and collaboration insights with the world!
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INNOVATION ARTICLES]

Featured Article
Create Your Own Definition of Innovation
By Jorga Barba
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BLOG
Five Factors to Consider before Co-Creating with Consumers
Who are your co-creators? Why are you co-creating? How long will you engage the crowd?
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INNOVATIVE PEOPLE
Promote Your Innovation Skills!
Mahmood-ur-Rahman Ansari has developed a fast and efficient method to determine the position of alien genes in transgenic plants.
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OPEN INNOVATION SUCCESS STORIES
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Philips Reaps the Benefits of Collaborating with Consumers
To make the most of co-creating with consumers companies should view the practice as much more than market research, and engage the crowd in meaningful ways.
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Facilitators Wanted
Experienced facilitators wanted to work in IdeaConnection's
virtual ThinkSpace®, guiding teams of professionals
working to solve theoretical challenges.
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PROBLEM SOLVER INTERVIEWS
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Looking at Problems from Different Perspectives
This way of doing science using experts from different backgrounds in different parts of the world to work collaboratively is the only way for the future.
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POSITIONS AVAILABLE
Soybean Breeding Project Lead
Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. is seeking two Soybean specialists to work in Brazil. Must be proficient in Portuguese and English.
• Soybean Breeding Project Lead
• Soybean Genetic Project Lead
Who do you know who could fill these positions? Submit your lead, and if it's accepted, you will receive $2,000.
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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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CITATION SEARCH
Plants Resistant to Dicambia
Prior art citations wanted for plants resistant to dicamba.
$10,000 for each accepted document. [DETAILS HERE]
TECH 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.
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PATENT MARKETPLACE
Hooded Life Jacket with Insulated and Filtered Hydration System
Life Jacket including a hood and a hydration system. The hood may include insulated neoprene protecting the head from the water. The hydration pack may be insulated. The hydration bladder may include a flow tube with a filter providing clean water to the user.
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RIGHT BRAIN WORKOUTS
Right Brain Workout
Creative Discontent
Nobody's perfect and everybody knows it. Well, maybe Mozart was perfect and, okay, Ella Fitzgerald and Groucho Marx. But the rest of us, if we're honest, find ourselves lacking. So we identify readily with greats who recognize that they, too, have room to grow.
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PRIOR ART CITATION SEARCH
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Prior Art Citation Search
Instead of using passive, traditional search procedures, IdeaConnection incentivizes its global network to reach out to "their" networks in an expanding ripple-effect search. If you have used sources such as USPTO EAST System, Delphion®, LexisNexis®, Dialog®, Derwent WPI®, INPADOC®, MicroPatent PatentWeb®, etc., without success, it's time to try IdeaConnection's unique PACS service.
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INNOVATION CONVENTIONS & EVENTS
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Digital Strategy Innovation Summit
Sep 20-21, 2012
San Francisto, California, USA
The Digital Strategy Innovation Summit will outline the various challenges facing strategy leaders today and identify the innovations in place to overcome them within your own organization.
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INNOVATION CONTESTS
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fix*us
Contest Closes: Oct-31-12
"Fix US" is a social movement to help the public realize that the voices of citizens do matter and that citizens can offer solutions to mend the open wounds of this country. The concept is to find the solutions to these problems in the places where people seem the least likely to look: within each of us. $5,000 charity.
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INVENTIONS FOR SALE
RV Solar Power
The RV Sun Power is an Automatic, dual axis solar tracking system for RV's, cabins or any location that needs power. The RV Sun Power automatically tracks the sun to provide you with the most power possible from your solar panels. The RV Sun Power rotates 360° to allow you to park your RV in Any direction and capture the most power for your RV.
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You don't have to be a super genius to reinvent your life,
but you do have to put your shoulder to the wheel.
– Jeff DeGraff