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SENSUS Pain Management. Sand-Based Battery. The Innovation Paradox.

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BLOG Two Awesome Prize-Based Innovation Contests Two of the most prominent prize competitions of the day are the £10 million Longitude Prize and GE's $1 million ecomagination open innovation challenge to help accelerate technology development in Canada’s oil sands. [INNOVATION BLOG] BOOKS The Innovation Paradox Why good businesses kill breakthroughs and how they can change. By Tony Davila, Marc Epstein [MORE BOOKS] NEW INVENTIONS Sand-Based Battery Researchers have developed a sand-based, lithium-ion battery anode able to outperform current batteries by three times, reducing the need for toxic and expensive materials. SENSUS The SENSUS Pain Management System offers a drug-free way for patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathy to relieve chronic pain in the lower legs and feet. [MORE NEW INVENTIONS] How to Write an Open Innovation Challenge [REQUEST WHITE PAPER] VIDEO Becoming a "Now-ist" A form of bottom-up thinking that does not try to predict the future, but instead takes advantage of observing what's happening around you right now to think quickly and innovate constantly. [MORE VIDEOS] If you like this Newsletter EMAIL A FRIEND and recommend it! INNOVATION ARTICLES Crowdsharing Innovation [SUBMIT AN INNOVATION ARTICLE] Featured Article How Can You Convince Your Boss to Innovate? Gijs van Wulfen [READ MORE ARTICLES] INNOVATIVE PEOPLE Promote Your Innovation Skills! Alejandro Ramos de la Pena developed a patented new robotic surgery technology for laparoscopic and minimally invasive surgery. [ADD YOUR PROFILE] [BE A PROBLEM SOLVER]

OPEN INNOVATION SUCCESS STORIES How the Crowd is Exploring the Moon Citizen scientists are exploring the moon in unprecedented detail. To date, they have classified millions of images, helping researchers understand more about our nearest neighbor in space. [MORE OPEN INNOVATION STORIES] [WHAT CAN WE SOLVE FOR YOU?] INNOVATION CONVENTIONS & EVENTS Front End of Innovation - Toronto Sep 29-Oct 1, 2014 Toronto, Ontario, Canada There is a global innovation movement taking place. This year alone, over 1,100 of your innovation, product development, trends and R&D colleagues have already attended one of the FEI: Front End of Innovation portfolio of events. [MORE CONVENTIONS] [FREE: ADD YOUR INNOVATION EVENT] You have an R&D Challenge that you want solved, but is crowdsourcing the best way to go about it? IdeaConnection will do a free analysis of your technical problem to determine whether it can be solved using open innovation approaches. [FREE ANALYSIS] TECHNOLOGY SCOUTING $2,000 for each Accepted Lead: Consumer Food Monitoring Device Seeking a device, or enabling technologies to perform real-time monitoring of food for pesticide residues, veterinary residues and adulterants. Mobile Biomass Characterization Device or Technology Seeking a platform or technology that enables real-time biomass characterization for multiple feedstocks. Mobile Raw Materials Characterization Device or Technology Seeking a platform or technology that enables real-time raw material identification and characterization of wide range of plastics and polymers. [WHAT TECHNOLOGIES CAN WE FIND FOR YOU?] Are you more comfortable speaking in Arabic, Swedish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Slovenian, Croatian, Malasian or Spanish? IdeaConnection has agents in many parts of the world that can make it easier for you to communicate your open innovation needs. [TALK TO AN AGENT TODAY] or [CONTACT A BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT REP] IdeaRallies Yield Breakthrough Thinking Crowdsourcing is a powerful engine that can fuel better problem solving, faster innovation, and novel thinking. It is defined as "the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than from traditional employees or suppliers." [REQUEST FULL ARTICLE] EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES Bee-Vision: Bio-inspired Safe and Secured Aircraft Landing System Bees have inspired development of a new aircraft landing system that is fully independent of outside technology, improving passenger safety by deterring blocking or hacking. Researchers have developed and successfully trialed the autonomous system, which uses visual cues from cameras to control landings. [MORE EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES] [CONTACT US TO RECEIVE EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES] PATENT MARKETPLACE Devices and Methods for Delivering Molecules to the Heart with Electric Fields The invention includes a catheter-based electrode and methods for its use for the delivery of molecules to cardiac tissue, blood vessels, other tissues/organs that can be accessed through a luminal tissue, and luminal tissues. [THOUSANDS OF PATENTS] Contact the patent owner for free! [LIST YOUR PATENT] It's FREE. INNOVATION CONTESTS The Desali Prize Deadline: Aug-01-14 Securing Water for Food, the Desal Prize aims to incentivize the creation of an environmentally sustainable small-scale brackish water desalination system that can provide potable water for humans, as well as water appropriate for crops in developing countries. [FREE: POST YOUR INNOVATION CONTEST] [NOTIFY ME OF NEW CONTESTS POSTED] INVENTIONS FOR SALE Nicotine Collector A health tool for smokers that collects the cigarette contaminants as they smoke. For use in vehicles and enclosed spaces, such as rooms. Particular emphasis, is on the collection of the vaporized nicotine particulate matter. [MORE INVENTIONS FOR SALE] [LIST YOUR INVENTION FOR SALE]

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