Cool posting on Best practices in p2p and 2.0 platforms

By rdefilli

Site has wonderful collection of best practices on p2p and web 2.0 plaforms for a variety of innovation and business services.. Great linking of innovation and virtual collaborative tools. find it at

Examples

Intermediary Platforms

Innocentive – open innovation problem solving
TekScout – crowdsourcing R&D solutions
Fellowforce – innovation challenge board covering many disciplines
IdeaConnection – idea marketplace and problem solving
Yet2.com – IP market place
Ninesigma – technology problem solving
Innovation Exchange – open innovation market place
Open Innovation Gmbh/Battle of concepts – challenge boards

Innovation Services

Big Idea Group – organize innovation contests and idea hunts
spigit Enterprise – stimulate innovation and intrapreneurship
Idea Crossing – organize innovation quests
Sense Worldwide – tap into the global creative R&D network
Pharmalicensing – open innovation for the life sciences
Inkling Markets – use wisdom of the crowd for forecasting
HumanGrid – small online tasks solving

Platforms for entrepreneurs

CambrianHouse – entrepreneurship 2.0 community
Incuby – online community for inventors
spigit Innovation – peer review of business ideas
Ideawicket – open innovation portal
WhyNot – idea exchange
IdeaBlob – monthly contest for entrepreneurial ideas

Freelance platforms

odesk – global marketplace for remote work
elance – freelancers
Guru – freelancers
Ki Work – sourcing online work
Amazon Mechanical Turk – low-cost crowdsourcing

Creative

Spreadshirt – shirt community
Threadless – create and sell your tshirts
Naked&Angry – threadless for ties and wallcoverings
cafepress – shop, create or sell what’s on your mind
zazzle – create and sell mechanding products
Sellaband – crowdfunded bands
Artistshare – fans funding new artists
co.labr8 – creative crowdsourcing platform
TopCoder – programming competitions
IStockPhoto – user-generated photos

P2P Crowdsourcing Platforms

Yahoo Answers – crowdsourced Q&A
BrainReactions – online, open brainstorming

Corporate Initiatives

Product Ideas

P&G Open Innovation Challenge – external idea sourcing in Britain
Ideas4Unilever – corporate venturing
BMW Customer Innovation Lab – in german
LeadUsers.nl & Live Simplicity – Philips crowdsourcing platforms
Staples Invention Quest – idea contest
Kraft – innovate with Kraft
GameChanger – Shell’s corporate venturing
Henkel Innovation Trophy – idea competition
Creative Conversion Factory – collaboration in design and ICT
IBM ThinkPlace – idea generation and collaboration
InnovationJam* – IBM’s more internally focussed idea generation project
Cool Software – Intel’s sensing platform
Dell IdeaStorm – external idea sourcing
Vocalpoint – P&G’s network for women

Branding

Spreadshirt Logo Design Contest – let community design new logo
Gmail M-Velope Video Competition – viral video competition

Product Design

Nintendo Wiiware – nintendo embraces crowdsourcing
LEGO Factory – LEGO co-creation tool
Peugeot – Peugeot’s design contest
Nespresso – design contest for coffee machines
Muji – improving and suggesting new designs
Electrolux Design Lab – annual design competition for students
Fluevog – open shoe design

Open source

LEGO Mindstorms – open source robots
BurdaStyle – open source sewing
GoldCorp – the famous GoldCorp Challenge

Data collection & analysis

ESP Game/Google Image Labeler – crowdsourced image labeling

Peer Production

CrowdSpirit – product development 2.0
Linux – open source software
Wikipedia – peer produced encyclopedia
A Swarm of Angels – creating a £ 1 million film
…

Public sector

Universities

iBridge Network – platform for university innovation (iBridge)
Science Commons – generic license agreements (Science Commons)

Miscellaneous

Picnic Green Challenge – ideas to save the planet
Eureke medical – medical open innovation platform
German Catholic Church – catholic church adopts open innovation

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