We all get the gist of crowdsourcing challenges that populate sites like InnoCentive and OpenIDEO — here’s a problem, let’s pose it to as many different minds as we can to find the best possible ...

Marblar is a product development platform that lets users generate ideas for commercial uses of scientific discoveries that lay dormant in universities and research labs around the globe. Today the ...

Tech transfer—bringing academic innovations to the marketplace—'doesn't always work as smoothly as we might expect. Specifically, there are far more ideas that are generated in universities than ones ...

Participate in the challenge and you could win $1,000. A month ago, GEN introduced you to Marblar, a firm that crowdsources market applications for emerging and existing technology, allowing anyone ...

Also needed: innovative ideas for products from NASA, ETRI, and the University of Pennsylvania. Many big changes have happened at Marblar since we introduced the firm to GEN readers earlier this year.

A few months back, I was pitched over Skype by the CEO and co-founder of a startup building a platform that was going to realise the “true potential” of science. “Okay,” I said, “but have you got ...

If you’re a writer or an artist looking to turn an idea into a reality, crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter provide capital, but also, thousands of eyeballs to absorb the idea, evaluate whether or ...

(Phys.org)—"That's a cool lab trick but what's its purpose?" Marblar wants to tease out great answers from those who log in to participate. With prizes, points and kudos in the mix. Marblar is a new ...

*That's an interesting proposal. Making up use-cases for objects and services that already exist yet have never gotten any public traction. *It's long-tail crowdsourcing and it looks like it's got a ...

IP Group plc completes investment into Marblar - a new platform to identify new uses for inert intellectual property IP Group plc (LSE: IPO) ("IP Group" or "the Company" or "the Group"), the developer ...