Perspectives on Innovation

InnoCentive CEO Dwayne Spradlin was recently interviewed by Big Think about building a sustainable business in an economic downturn.  The interview was broken into several shorter video segments, each dealing with a different aspect of innovation and sustainability.  In the first segment, “Internal Talent is Not Enough”, Dwayne introduces the concept of open innovation as the paradigm smasher for the “not invented here” company, and discusses how sustainable companies are able to move from the model of “the laboratory is my world” to “the world is my laboratory”.  Dwayne proposes that a truly open organization should innovate internally only if they absolutely have to, which requires a completely new mindset and structure.

In a recent conversation with Melanie Leitner, Chief Scientific Officer of Prize4Life, she mentioned a great new resource that the organization had developed for Solvers – the ALS Forum.  This Forum contains an unbelievable amount of reference information about ALS drug development, links to potential funding sources, networking resources, the latest news on ALS research and more.  In the near future, Prize4Life will add including new databases and demonstration videos.  The Forum was developed in part as a result of suggestions and feedback from InnoCentive Solvers and is an absolutely essential resource for anyone working on the Prize4Life Challenge, or in any area of ALS research.  Check it out!