Check it out: InnoCentive Challenge Bulletin 6/27/2019

InnoCentive Challenge Bulletin: the latest Challenges and content from our blog delivered to you weekly. View this email in your browser Below you'll find this week's featured Challenges and the latest post blog post.   Know someone who would be a great Solver? Forward this Challenge Bulletin to a friend, or share an individual Challenge below! Featured Challenges Smart Hydration Tracking Challenge 9934019 Deadline: June 29, 2019 Reward: Varies Staying hydrated is especially important for keeping healthy, though the daily recommended water intake is influenced by a person's size, age, and physical activity. Sometimes it is hard to remember how much liquid you have consumed and when you feel thirsty, you may already be experiencing dehydration. Therefore, the Seeker desires a seamless tracking system for users to monitor their water consumption with ease. Read More Share Tweet Mixing Highly Viscous Materials Challenge 9934240 Deadline: August 8, 2019 Reward: $850,000 This Challenge is looking for equipment and methods to mix materials of high viscosity over a large viscosity range. More details will be provided in the Detailed Description. Read More Share Tweet Corteva Agriscience Challenge: Seeking Natural Products or Natural Product-Derived Small Molecules Challenge 9934237 Deadline: August 13, 2019 Reward: Varies Corteva Agriscience is seeking pure natural products and semi-synthetic natural products for pest control. Material supply of compounds which are natural products or natural-product derived small molecules is desired. Crude extracts and mixtures are not requested for this Challenge. Read More Share Tweet Trailer Angle Detection Challenge 9934207 Deadline: July 22, 2019 Reward: $40,000 The Seeker desires a system for automated detection of the angle between a trailer and its tow vehicle utilizing video from an on-board rearward facing camera. The system must be robust and operate accurately under a variety of weather and lighting conditions and must function on a mobile processor typically found in modern vehicles. Read More Share Tweet Metal, Aldehyde and Vegetable Free Tanning - The Stabilization of Collagen Challenge 9934205 Deadline: July 21, 2019 Reward: $30,000 In an effort to reduce health and environmental impact, the Seeker is looking for a leather tanning system that is free from metals and aldehyde containing materials that can still produce a sustainable quality product. This can be summarized as chemical, thermal and microbiological stabilization of the collagen. Read More Share Tweet Latest Blog Post How Businesses Use Crowdsourcing to Disrupt and Avoid Disruption As industry disruption has spread from a few niche markets to entire sectors that were once considered all but bulletproof (i.e. retail), companies have increasingly been confronted with a stark choice: innovate or become irrelevant, disrupt or be disrupted.    One strategy company's have increasingly used to innovate, improve products and services, accelerate the innovation process and reduce risks of failure has been finding and using crowdsourced solutions and ideas. Croudsourcing is far different than "Mob-sourcing"! Mob-sourcing is unbounded, unclear and subject to silly or unhelpful responses and comes from not focusing on what problem needs to be solved. How does this happen? Someone asked the wrong question and the problem was not clear!   Copyright ©  2018, InnoCentive, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: innohelp@innocentive.com Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list