Comments on: 5 Questions with Dr. Karim Lakhani

By: Vocanic » Why Crowdsourcing Works

Vocanic » Why Crowdsourcing Works — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:02:25 +0000

[...] cues from both the phenomenon of massively multiplayer online role playing games and the concept of crowdsourcing scientific problems and developed Foldit, a protein folding game. Foldit presents protein folding as a visual or [...]

By: Jeanne Fisher

Jeanne Fisher — Sun, 23 May 2010 14:09:22 +0000

HA! I enjoy reading the report, too. It?s easy to understand that a journey like this is the biggest event in ones

By: Murfomurf

Murfomurf — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:47:23 +0000

As a person with a mixed science/arts background and a very “busy” and inventive mind, I find the Innocentive Challenges a great way to exercise my academic and creative skills and knowledge while I am unable to find paid work. I would love to work with others in a team to try to solve some of the challenges but every friend I’ve approached IRL is either too busy or not interested. I wonder if Innocentive will provide a forum for finding collaborators in solving online? It’s difficult to form cross-disciplinary connections when the people you know in real life are not interested in crossing disciplinary lines and say “I don’t know anything about…”. I particularly see the need for finding people who know how certain technologies operate which I have no inkling of, other than that I think a certain “type” of technology should work on some problems, eg. getting a technology that can sense a particular sort of molecule in a space, or a fine laser beam that will produce a reflected colour in the presence of some substance. Anyway- I’m a female and one of those who really couldn’t care less if I never won a monetary reward- it’s the detective work and the chase that I like!

By: Perspectives on Innovation » Blog Archive » Some Problems are Too Important to Leave to the Experts

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:44:17 +0000

[...] actually come from. Interesting to note is that, based on research from Harvard professor Karim Lakhani, on average, women are more successful at solving Challenges than men. He also discusses the [...]

By: Perspectives on Innovation » Blog Archive » The Next Wave of Open Innovation

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:43:58 +0000

[...] we have found to be true again and again, both in independent research conducted by academics like Karim Lakhani, and in conversations with our Seekers, who continue to be surprised about where solutions to their [...]