Innocentive pioneered the concept of crowdsourcing for R&D especially in the Pharma Industry which is highly dependent on innovating novel ideas. It lent challenge a new meaning through sourcing ideas from a wider auudience.
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BrandNewHats: Proposing a Crowdsourced Hat Brand
Hats should be designed by the crowd.
Sounds of the Crowd
How Soundcloud brought together the long tail of musicians and a global audience to create a vibrant online community.
Tradiio – Experimenting with Crowds in the Music Industry
This is the story of Tradiio, a music startup that launched as a crowdsourced virtual stock market for emerging artists and later pivoted to become a direct-to-fan crowdfunding platform.
Tay: Crowdsourcing a PR Nightmare
“We are deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets from Tay, which do not represent who we are or what we stand for, nor how we designed Tay.” [1]
TayTweets with Trolls: Microsoft Research’s Painful Lesson in Conversation Crowdsourcing
In March 2016, Microsoft launched Tay, a Twitter bot that could learn from its conversations with others. The experiment quickly unraveled.
Zhihu.com, bridging the gap of growing knowledge sharing demand in China
Zhihu.com a dominated online player in China’s knowledge sharing economy
Quantopian: Crowd Sourcing Hedge Funds
Quantopian harnesses the power of crowds by allowing anyone to contribute quantitative investment strategies through their platform – and get paid for performance.
Vetr: Crowdsourcing Stock Ratings
Can crowds do better than sophisticated analysts when it comes to predicting future stock prices?
Transforming Governments via Citizensourcing
How cities of Medellin, Colombia and Paris, France, as well as Belgian startup CitizenLab leverage technology to crowdsource solutions to city issues from its own citizens.