Co-creation

“There’s also a lot of science that sits behind our chocolate, gum and candy – from the ‘mouth feel’ and melting temperatures of chocolate, to the bounciness and flavour encapsulation of gum, to crystallisation and caramelisation of candy. Innovation can help us solve the scientific challenges we face in some of these areas. We know we can’t do this alone and that there are great ideas out there in other…

Actually publish their needs in some detail, unlike many enterprises that hide behind sites like innocentive. http://www.innovation.cadbury.com/ourinnovationneeds/Pages/OurInnovationNeeds.aspx This is clearly a business strategy, not some research dressed up as open innovation. I don’t know how succesful it is but they’re clearly quite serious about IP and being responsible with it.

Industrial Bakery.

First Quality desserts for restaurants and home.
Casa Eceiza takes recipes from world leading chefs and creates the industrial processes to make mass production. All raw materials are top quality as the ingredients used by the chefs.

Casa Eceiza is using Lead User Research to make a wider catalog of products. Lead User Research is a methodology developped by MIT´s professor Eric Von Hippel. LU Research team members include world class chefs, catering companies, lead consumers, technology centers, etc.

Distance Lab is a creative research organisation bringing together digital media technology, design and the arts to redefine and overcome the disadvantages of distance in learning, health care, relationships, culture and other domains.

In addition to conducting academic research, the Lab works with briefs from industry and governmental partners, providing advice, generating ideas and building prototypes that inspire and can lead to new innovative products and services.

Oral Wiki is one of  many projects of Distance Lab.  The Oral Wiki is a phone-based wiki system. It was inspired by the need for a networking tool to strengthen informal justice systems in sub-Saharan Africa, where conventional screen-based Web 2.0 applications are not viable because of a lack of literacy and Internet availability. It could archive case results and facilitate information sharing between the informal and formal justice systems.

The Cosmonaut is a crowdfunded feature film which will be distributed through the internet for free with a creative commons license.

The creative commons license and the innovative distribution model (based on a transmedia project and many different platforms such as mobile and events related to an ARG) allows the film to benefit from the wisdom of crowds that are creating derivative work from the materiales produced for the movie and…

They’ve raised over 1450 producers of the film, a huge community on facebook and twitter and got many people to participate with derivative works, music, texts, remixes and mashups of the trailer and collaboration over 6 countries to achieve the goals the film wants to achieve. All the information related to the movie is completely open: the screenplay draft, the accounts, the process…

elmur.net is a website by means of which a collective movie it is build. Users from around the world share videos with toughts, dreams, moments and visions. The Collective movie is secreened on public spaces around the world

Sharing video pieces and building up a collective movie … elmur.net is a visual dialog which seeks ponits of view from citizens around the world to inspire us to buildup alltogether a better one ; )

Emporis is a real estate data mining company. It is creating a database and imagebase of all buildings worldwide which have commercial or public interest, along with a platform for displaying this content to various types of users. An open community participates in the collection of data and images: this includes exterior photos, interior photos, and construction photos, and structural, architectural, descriptive, historical, financial, and company-related information.

For Emporis, it would not be possible to amass such an ambitious collection of information without an open community scattered around the world. Emporis has editors in 66 countries, thus allowing for field research that goes deeper than any existing sources. The community has a diverse range of interests – for example, some members are interested in industrial buildings, some in historical buildings, and some concentrate mainly on photos.

In our own words, Face is a ‘Co-Creation Planning Agency’… meaning we use co-created ideas and insights to help brands strengthen and develop their strategies and consumer relationship. We believe that people who buy and consume products should be involved in every step of the marketing journey, from idea inception to product launch. We use co-creation to enable the direct and active involvement of consumers with brands to generate better…

We believe ideas can come from anywhere and that consumers should be treated as active equals rather than as passive respondents in the brand marketing process. By giving consumers more active and direct responsibility we help brands stay much closer to their consumers ever changing needs. Our network of 10,000 co-creators across our co-creation communities, Headbox & Mindbubble sit at the core of everything we do; providing people with the…

Furtherfield.org believes that through creative and critical engagement with practices in art and technology people are inspired and enabled to become active co-creators of their cultures and societies. Furtherfield.org provides platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change.

HTTP Gallery in Haringey, North London is Furtherfield.org’s dedicated space for physical events and residencies. VisitorsStudio is their online space for live audiovisual media remixing. From their offices at HTTP, Furtherfield.org initiate and provide infrastructure for commissions, events, exhibitions, internships, networking, participatory projects, peer exchange, publishing, research, residencies and workshops. Learning, participation and exchange are central to Furtherfield.org’s inclusive outreach work with young people. This work is developed…

Google is most prominently known as the search engine and advertising giant within the web and tech industry. However, they are also known for developing useful web tools (such as Google Mail, Docs, Analytics and many more) and software (such as Google Chrome, Google Earth).

One of their biggest projects undergoing development currently is called Google Wave. It is a collaboration tool where multiple users are capable of creating/editting/publishing a single post entry. It has opened its doors to user-made APIs, making this already powerful tool even more customizable. With Google Wave, user generated content is highly encouraged, and serves as a great platform to do so.

Harkopen.com is an internet open source community with the main goal help the world interconnect. By offering web tools to post electronics projects and find parts and by the other side to offer services, tools and help the community can grow faster together and make awesome open tech. The website offers a news section, projects hosting, suppliers list, hacker spaces locations and tutorials, while promoting open source hardware on…

Every type of content available on the website is user submitted and anyone can register for a free account and submit news, projects, suppliers, hacker spaces or tutorials. Also harkopen.com has a strong open presence on social networks empowering everyone interested in open hardware to learn more and join the movement.