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
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