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InnoCentive Open Innovation Network This Seeker is trying to use sodium channel blockers to control insects. This $5k Ideation Challenge has a guaranteed payout to the best solution!

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This Challenge is seeking voltage-gated sodium channel blockers with potential use for insect control. This is an Ideation Challenge with a guaranteed award for at least one submitted solution.
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InnoCentive Open Innovation Network Make Magazine just announced their video series "The Elements of Humanity" where they interview prominent scientists and technologists about the passion behind their life's work. Designed to inspire students to become interested in science, technology, engineering and math. What would you say if they interviewed you?

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Last week, Make Magazine announced a new series of educational and inspirational videos called “The Elements of Humanity”, designed to inspire students to become interested in science, technology, ...
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InnoCentive Open Innovation Network Hey Chemists - $20K Challenge seeks a proposal for an efficient synthesis of the amino acid shown below.

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A theoretical proposal for an efficient synthesis of the shown bi-cyclic amino acid is needed.
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InnoCentive Open Innovation Network The Seeker is looking for a partner to develop an automated system for
mixing solids and solvents for flow reactor feed streams.

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The Seeker is looking for a partner to develop an automated system of mixing solids and solvents for flow reactor feed streams. This is an electronic Request-for-Partners (eRFP) Challenge; the Solver will ...
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InnoCentive Open Innovation Network Another math Challenge! $15K to devise a new model, or use an existing model that was developed for a different use, to analyze adaptation within a population.

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The analysis of adaptation with a population is a frequently encountered computational modeling scenario. The Seeker is looking for Solvers that may have insights into creating models of such scenarios. ...
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InnoCentive Open Innovation Network $10k for a white paper that collates process mass intensities (PMIs) for 25 out of the top 100 selling pharmaceuticals.

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A white paper collating the process mass intensities for the top selling pharmaceuticals is desired.
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InnoCentive Open Innovation Network $20k for a way to mechanically separate food slices that are slightly oily, sticky and very floppy. Seems like a good Challenge for a hungry engineer!

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This Challenge is looking for a way to mechanically separate food slices that are slightly oily, sticky and very floppy. The slices naturally stick together in overlapped clumps of 2 to 5 slices and have to be manually separated today.
Francis
Francis
It is a very attractive and achievable challenge, It seems like you dont need much of the brain muscles to do this, if you are perceptive to electro-mechanicals
October 30 at 6:05pm
Ben
Ben
Sounds like a bologna magnet to me.
October 31 at 2:12pm
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InnoCentive Open Innovation Network This Seeker is offering $25,000 to design a power source that will trigger a battery powered micro controller in a mobile wireless agent.

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The Seeker, a privately-held company, is looking for a low cost, external power source and embedded receiver that together will act as a dedicated passive trigger device designed to "wake up" a battery-powered micro controller embedded in a mobile wireless agent. ...
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InnoCentive Open Innovation Network This Seeker is looking for a material that has constant reflective properties at near UV range - $15k for the right solution.

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The Seeker is looking for materials with constant reflective properties in the near ultraviolet light range. Solutions must meet a handful of criteria in order to fulfill the Seeker's needs.
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InnoCentive Open Innovation Network $20,000 for a injection moldable thermoplastic that may be sterilized using e-beam radiation - can you solve this Challenge?

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The Seeker is looking for a thermoplastic that is amenable to injection molded and e-beam sterilization without significant outgassing.
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InnoCentive Open Innovation Network Seeking new methods of analyzing changes in single cells. $5k for the best solution!

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This challenge is looking for novel approaches to analyzing changes at a single-cell level. This is an Ideation Challenge with a guaranteed award for at least one submitted solution.
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InnoCentive Open Innovation Network Attention Chemists! This Seeker is looking for new ways to detect proteins and nucleic acids in clinical samples. Guaranteed $5k award.

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This Challenge is looking for novel approaches to protein and nucleic acid detection. This is an Ideation Challenge with a guaranteed award for at least one submitted solution.
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InnoCentive Open Innovation Network InnoCentive Challenge-based innovation yields 74% Return on Investment as recognized by Forrester Consulting.

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WALTHAM, Mass. - October 28, 2009 - InnoCentive, Inc., the world leader in open innovation, today announced that global consumer goods company SCA has achieved a Return on Investment (ROI) of 74 percent ...
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InnoCentive Open Innovation Network InnoCentive Solvers John Davis and Giorgia Sgargetta featured in a story about InnoCentive on the CNBC series "The Business of Innovation". The segment also includes segments of 2008's Video Challenge winner, submitted by Solver John Michael Zervoulei.

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On October 19th, InnoCentive CEO Dwayne Spradlin was a guest on the CNBC series “The Business of Innovation” with Maria Bartiromo. The segment was called “The Power of the Crowd” ...
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InnoCentive Open Innovation Network InnoCentive is empowering American cities through crowdsourcing - offering the largest cities in the U.S. a free Challenge post. What Challenge would you like to see InnoCentive Solvers tackle for your city or town?

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Affordable public housing. Quality schools. Safe neighborhoods. Clean streets. Inexpensive mass transit. There’s no shortage of challenges facing American cities. But there is an innovative new way to ...