Crowdfunding is usually more appropriate for people with projects, entrepreneurs, etc.. but it is not clear how can it fit within a large company. In this post the IBM 1×5 project is analyzed, a clear example of how crowdfunding can be used within a large company and how it can be used for more than just funding projects.
Tag: open innovation
Campus Labs, the Campus Party crowdsourcing initiative
Campus Labs is a clear example of crowdsourcing platform based on open innovation, in the style of InnoCentive. This platform, created by the organizers of Campus Party, has a key feature in any crowdsourcing initiative: to gather around itself a large and specalized (important in open innovation initiatives) crowd.
Read moreCrowdsourcing and Open Innovation
Another term that tends to be identified with crowdsourcing is Open Innovation. As I did with Collective Intelligence, in this post I try to clarify the relationship between crowdsourcing and Open Innovation. Are both the same? …
Read moreCrowdsourcing landscape in Spain
When talking about crowdsourcing, paradigmatic examples as Threadless and InnoCentive are often used . But these are often far from our reality, and even more if you are from another country. In the case of Spain, ¿which crowdsourcing platforms exist?In this post I have designed an infographic that tries to answer this question.
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