Popular Science magazine and InnoCentive have announced a partnership to facilitate open innovation and greater collaboration in solving challenges in technology, science and engineering.
The core of the Popular Science-InnoCentive Challenge Program is an online Pavilion - a forum to be co-hosted on PopSci.com and InnoCentive.com. Here, corporations, nonprofits and government agencies can post pressing challenges facing their business or industry and offer financial rewards for solutions. Creative problem solvers from all over the world are invited to access the information and tackle the challenges.
This method of open innovation, which harnesses the power of crowdsourcing and a global network of thinkers to solve a problem, has fuelled progress in various areas, it has been observed. These range from oil spill recovery and energy solutions for rural Africa to improved treatments for tuberculosis and biomarkers for deadly diseases.
The Popular Science Pavilion will host a set of Challenges in a variety of scientific disciplines, posted by corporations, government agencies and nonprofit organisations. The magazine will also devise its own Challenges, the first of which will launch in May when the Pavilion goes live.
InnoCentive's platform seeks to bring together cloud-based technology, expert services and a global network of over 250,000 problem solvers to develop innovative solutions to Challenges submitted by a broad range of organisations. Published by Bonnier Corporation, Popular Science has a monthly readership of more than 7 million and claims to be the world's largest science and technology magazine.
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