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AmyT on
October 13, 2010
Happily, Harvard University appears to have jumped on the diabetes innovation bandwagon recently, with a crowdsourcing experiment called the Harvard Catalyst InnoCentive Ideation Challenge, in which Harvard president Dan Faust sent out a call to the great minds around this legendary university for creative answers to the question: “What do we not know to cure type 1 diabetes?”
Well, there are certainly plenty of answers to that question!
However, as it turns out, the main…
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A huge thank you and congratulations to all who participated in our 2010 open innovation contest! Once again we feel that this effort is an example of “crowdsourcing” at its best — asking the community for its brightest concepts to help improve life with diabetes.
This year we received more than 130 unique submissions. Dozens of those were from university students, studying Design, Medicine, Sports Medicine, Engineering, Chemical and Mechanical Engineering and more. In particular,…
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AmyT on
October 26, 2009
We tend to assume that the big companies making glucose monitoring products do nothing but sit around thinking about how they can sell more product. You can’t blame us; it sure looks that way from the outside. But late last week I was privileged to get an inside view of some of the real innovation going on behind closed doors.
I was invited to visit Roche’s New Concept Incubator, a small “think tank” of about…
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A huge congratulations and thank you to all who participated in this open innovation contest! This is truly “crowdsourcing” at its best — asking the community for its brightest ideas on how to improve life with diabetes.
At final toll, we received over 150 entries from participants describing themselves as:
Students – in Design, Industrial Design, Mechanical Engineering, Biotechnology, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Biology, and Business
Electronic and computer engineers
Graphic designers
Entrepreneurs
Medical device…
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AmyT on
March 12, 2009
I see that we need a little clarification here: we’ve been getting some queries from folks with great diabetes design ideas, who are a bit hesitant to enter the 2009 DiabetesMine Design Challenge contest for fear of giving up the rights to their intellectual property. No worries! Here’s what you need to know:
You (the contest participant) retain the full IP rights to your idea. We (the contest organizers) don’t take ownership of anything. The…
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