WIWES contributed by Vanessa Watkins
Idea Contest “Save our Energy – The energy efficient cit ...
The idea contest is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and part of the project “OFFIES 2020+: Open Innovation Processes for the Energy Efficient City 2020+”. Among others, it is organized by the...
Open for Questions – Crowdsourcing at the White House
President Obama was looking for new ways to open up the White House to the American people, in order to get different perspectives from all over the country and enable people to participate. For this purpose, the White House im...
Fully Sponsored Innovation Camp for Young People
Palomor5 is an (currently running) innovation camp looking for creative young people to develop ideas for new working environments that fit the needs and skills of the digital generation. 30 young and creative minds were invi...
Social Innovation – The Urganda Rural Development and Trai ...
The Uganda Rural Development and Training Programme is a non-profit organization that provides education and training for rural development in the very poor and diverse Kibaale District of Uganda. URDTP is seen as a benchmark p...
Fab Labs – Fabrication laboratories for everyone
The concept of Fablabs - fabrication laboratories for everybody with flexible manufacturing equipment, consisting of several production tools such as laser cutters, CNC-Machines, 3D-printers, water jet cutters and injection mol...
OScar is an open source project launched in 1999. The objective is to jointly develop a car on the internet according to open source principles. Thus, the soft- and hardware used in the project are freely accessible to everyone...
Sprout – E-course for Idea Growth
Sprout offers an electronic course, in which people from all over the world can exchange their knowledge and help each other to further elaborate their social or environmental project ideas. Sprout tries to attract dynamic ac...
Sprout – E-course for Idea Growth
Sprout offers an electronic course, in which people from all over the world can exchange their knowledge and help each other to further elaborate their social or environmental project ideas. Sprout tries to attract dynamic ac...
Social Search - The Real Time People Web
The amount of information being available on the web in real time explodes, especially since Facebook status updates and tweets on twitter. It is now possible to see what lots of people are talking about in real-time on the web...
Disruptive Innovation from India: The Tata Nano
In January 2007 Tata Motors, India´s largest company in the automobile and commercial vehicle sector, launched a four-seater car with a purchasing price of around 1440 Euro. The Tata Nano is now the world’s cheapest car. Aut...
Innovation Culture of the Tata Group
Tata Consultancy Services, a firm belonging to India´s Group, makes internal innovation corporate culture top priority. Several strategies have been implemented in order to build a culture of innovation and stimulate employees...
Venlo – A Whole Town Adopts the Principle of „Waste is F ...
Venlo (NL) and its 90.000 inhabitants adopted McDonough and Braungart´s concept of Cradle to Cradle (waste = food) as a vision for their city. This joints the industry with the politicians, the general public and the creative ...
