Crowdsourcing Innovation: Q&A with Dwayne Spradlin of InnoCentive

In recent years, corporations have turned to open innovation to solve their toughest research problems and reduce runaway costs of R&D. Now non-profits are beginning to see prize-based innovation as a strategy for humanitarian causes too, such as developing medicines to fight tuberculosis in the developing world, cleaning up oil spills or designing solar technologies for villages in rural India and Africa. InnoCentive is the premier open innovation marketplace in the world, where corporations and non-profits post their toughest research problems and a global network of 160,000 solvers takes a crack at solving them for cash rewards. Non-profit challenges have grown to about 20 percent of the InnoCentive portfolio, up from virtually none only two years ago. In this Q&A, InnoCentive president and CEO Dwayne Spradlin explains why crowdsourcing is becoming a powerful tool for doing good.

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Need help coming up with creative ideas for your next project? Read reviews of these powerful brainstorming and idea generation software programs. Check them out...

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Straight Talk about Key Technologies That Today's IT Talent Need to Master: Christina Hollingsworth, Corporate IT Director Genworth Financial

Some areas of the Financial Services Sectors are building in the current economy with knowledge on some of the benefits the IT sector can offer. Download this podcast for some insights from Christina Hollingsworth... Despite the downturn in the economy, some financial services companies are holding their own and hiring people, especially in areas such as IT. Genworth Financial is one of those companies. Genworth Financial has morethan $103 billion in assets and 15 million customers worldwide.Genworth has earned the highest company ratings in its industry. It is a leader in long-term care insurance and annuities. Christina Hollingsworth will be the first one to tell you that IT resides at the core of Genworth Financial's business operations.

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