Crowdsourcing & Crowdfunding platforms

Mejdl SafranFall 2013

SIUC

Crowdsourcing

Research & Development platforms• Innocentive – open innovation problem

solving

Research & Development platforms

• IdeaConnection – idea marketplace and problem solving • Yet2.com – IP market place • Hypios – online problem solving • Innoget – research intermediary platform • One Billion Minds – online (social) challenges • NineSigma – technology problem solving • Ideaken - collaborative crowdsourcing • Innovation-community.de - Community of innovators,

creators, designers & thinkers

Marketing, Design & Idea platforms

• 99designs – pioneer in design crowdsourcing

Marketing, Design & Idea platforms • CMNTY Corporation - community co-creation• Innovation Exchange – open innovation market place• Idea Bounty – crowdsourcing ideas• Guerra Creativa – crowdsourcing anything creative• Brand Tags – tagging brands• Battle of concepts – student challenges• crowdSPRING – creative designs• BootB.com – custom creative ideas for any creative need• 12designer – marketplace for creative solutions• LeadVine – crowdsourcing lead generation• Edge Amsterdam – elite sourcing platform• OpenIDEO – collaborative design platform• Challenge.gov – crowdsourcing for government problems• eYeka – the co-creation community• Spigit - social innovation platform• Cognistreamer - open innovation platform• Zooppa - Branding/marketing platform

Collective Intelligence & Prediction platforms

• Kaggle – data mining and forecasting

Collective Intelligence & Prediction platforms

• Lumenogic - collective intelligence markets• Ushahidi – crowdsourcing crisis information• We Are Hunted – the online music chart• Google Image Labeler – crowdsourced image

labeling

HR & Freelancers platforms

• Freelancer.com – hire freelancer and find freelancer jobs online

HR & Freelancers platforms

• Amazon Mechanical Turk – low-cost micro-tasks crowdsourcing marketplace

HR & Freelancers platforms

• oDesk.com – similar to freelancer.com• TopCoder – competition-based software

crowdsourcing• Spudaroo – crowdsourcing copywriting• Clickworker - small online task solving

Creative Co-creation

• Threadless – create and sell your t-shirts

Creative Co-creation• Spreadshirt – shirt community• cafepress – shop, create or sell what’s on your mind• zazzle – create and sell products• CreateMyTattoo – crowdsourced tattoo design• Sellaband – crowdfunded bands• Artistshare – fans funding new artists• Quirky – community product development• jovoto – co-creation & mass collaboration• Dream Heels - design your dream heels• Mookum- co-creating lifestyle & interior products• Quirky + GE - co-creating platform by quirky & General Electric• Userfarm - co-creating platform for Video makers

Corporate InitiativesProduct ideas crowdsourcing

• My Startbucks Idea – shaping the future of Starbucks

Corporate Initiatives

• Fiat Mio – create a car• BMW Customer Innovation Lab – in german• Kraft – innovate with Kraft• InnovationJam* – IBM’s idea generation project• Dell IdeaStorm – external idea sourcing• Betavine – Vodafone’s mobile app community• My Startbucks Idea – shaping the future of

Starbucks• Ideasbrewery - Heineken Ideas Brewery• Connect + Develop - Innovation platform by P&G

Peer Production & P2P

• Yahoo Answers – Q&A crowdsourcing

Peer Production & P2P

• Linux – open source software• Wikipedia – peer produced encyclopedia• A Swarm of Angels – creating a £ 1 million film

Peer Production & P2P

• Linux – open source software• Wikipedia – peer produced encyclopedia• A Swarm of Angels – creating a £ 1 million film

Crowdfunding

Kickstarter• Kickstarter is a new way to fund creative projects.• “Since our launch in 2009, 5.1 million people have pledged

$860 million, funding 51,000 creative projects.”

Crowdfunding

• Indiegogo• Crowdrise• Rockethub• Crowdcube• Peerbackers

References

• Open Innovation & Crowdsourcing Examples, retrival Nov. 2013, http://www.boardofinnovation.com/list-open-innovation-crowdsourcing-examples/

• I added more examples besides those provided in the link above.