Research & Development platforms

• Innocentive – open innovation problem solving
• TekScout – crowdsourcing R&D solutions
• IdeaConnection – idea marketplace and problem solving
• Yet2.com – IP market place
• PRESANS (beta) – connect and solve R&D problems
• Hypios – online problem solving
• Innoget – research intermediary platform
• One Billion Minds – online (social) challenges
• NineSigma – technology problem solving

Marketing, Design & Idea platforms

• RedesignMe – community co-creation
• Atizo – open innovation market place
• Bosch – open innovation market place
• Innovation Exchange – open innovation market place
• ideaken – collaborative crowdsourcing
• Idea Bounty – crowdsourcing ideas
• Guerra Creativa – crowdsourcing anything from logos to websites
• Brand Tags – tagging brands
• Battle of concepts – student challenges
• Brainrack – student challenges
• crowdSPRING – creative designs
• BootB.com – custom creative ideas for any creative need
• Myoo Create – environmental and social challenges
• 12designer – marketplace for creative solutions
• LeadVine – crowdsourcing lead generation
• 99designs – pioneer in design crowdsourcing
• Edge Amsterdam – elite sourcing platform
• OpenIDEO – collaborative design platform
• Challenge.gov – crowdsourced solutions for government problems
• eYeka – the co-creation community

Collective Intelligence & Prediction platforms

• Inkling Markets – use wisdom of the crowd for forecasting
• Intrade – global prediction markets
• NewsFutures – collective intelligence markets
• Ushahidi – crowdsourcing crisis information
• Kaggle – data mining and forecasting
• We Are Hunted – the online music chart
• ESP Game/Google Image Labeler – crowdsourced image labeling

HR & Freelancers platforms

• TopCoder – competition-based software crowdsourcing
• Spudaroo – crowdsourcing copywriting
• HumanGrid – small online task solving
• ChumBonus – crowdsourcing recruitment
• Amazon Mechanical Turk – low-cost crowdsourcing

Open innovation software

• spigit – idea management 2.0
• Imaginatik – collective intelligence software
• Napkin Labs – connect with consumers, experts, employees
• Fellowforce – software/suggestion box 2.0

Intermediary open innovation services

• Big Idea Group – organize innovation contests and idea hunts
• Idea Crossing – organize innovation quests
• Pharmalicensing – open innovation for the life sciences
• Chaordix – crowdsourcing engine for innovation
• DataStation – complete innovation platform

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Creative Co-creation

• Spreadshirt – shirt community
• JuJups – personalized gifts
• Threadless – create and sell your t-shirts
• Naked&Angry – threadless for ties and wall coverings
• cafepress – shop, create or sell what’s on your mind
• zazzle – create and sell products
• CreateMyTattoo – crowdsourced tattoo design
• Sellaband – crowdfunded bands
• Artistshare – fans funding new artists
• Quirky – community product development
• jovoto – co-creation & mass collaboration
• Dream Heels – design your dream heels

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Corporate Initiatives

Product Ideas crowdsourcing

• Ideas Project – crowdsourcing platform by Nokia
• Fiat Mio – create a car
• Open Innovation Sara Lee – open innovation portal of Sara Lee
• 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
• Kraft – innovate with Kraft
• InnovationJam* – IBM’s more internally focussed idea generation project
• Dell IdeaStorm – external idea sourcing
• Vocalpoint – P&G’s network for women
• Betavine – Vodafone’s mobile app community
• My Startbucks Idea – shaping the future of Starbucks

Branding & Design crowdsourcing

• Spreadshirt Logo Design Contest – let community design new logo
• Gmail M-Velope Video Competition – viral video competition
• LEGO Factory – LEGO co-creation tool
• Peugeot – Peugeot’s design contest
• Muji – improving and suggesting new designs
• Electrolux Design Lab – annual design competition for students
• Fluevog – open shoe design
• LEGO Mindstorms – open source robots
• BurdaStyle – open source sewing
• GoldCorp – the famous GoldCorp Challenge

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Peer Production & P2P

• CrowdSpirit – product development 2.0
• Funding Circle – p2p lending
• Linux – open source software
• Wikipedia – peer produced encyclopedia
• Yahoo Answers – crowdsourced Q&A
• A Swarm of Angels – creating a £ 1 million film
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Public Crowdsourcing

• iBridge Network – platform for university innovation (iBridge)
• Science Commons – generic license agreements (Science Commons)
• Picnic Green Challenge – ideas to save the planet
• Eureke medical – medical open innovation platform
• German Catholic Church – catholic church adopts open innovation
• Fold it – solve puzzles for science
• Ideas Campaign – citizen ideas in Ireland
• Galaxy Zoo – discovering the universe