Ideagoras are emerging everywhere these days, from veterans like yet2.com to a recent entrant called Insight — an ideagora for business analysts. Great idea in my view:

Insight is a new on-line community dedicated to those of us who want to use our passion for numbers to make a difference.
You know about open source, which is [...]

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Novartis is the latest pharmaceutical company to throw some wikinomics at its approach to research and development. After investing millions of dollars trying to unlock the genetic basis of type 2 diabetes, the company released all of its raw data on the Internet, for free.
To some, this will sound peculiar. After all, type 2 diabetes [...]

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Virgin’s Richard Branson has joined forces with Al Gore to launch an innovation challenge to find new approaches for reducing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The goal is to find an efficient way of removing one billion tones of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually - for ten years. Innovators have 5 years to [...]

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Having worked with some of the strategy and intellectual property folks at IBM over the past few years I’ve come to regard them as some of the most progressive and thoughtful people on the planet when it comes to rethinking the nature of intellectual property system and fixing the ailing patent system. IBM recently launched [...]

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Conventional business wisdom says you should control and protect proprietary resources and innovations—especially intellectual property—through patents, copyright, and trademarks. If someone infringes your IP, get the lawyers out to do battle.
Although many industries still think this way (witness the recording industry), my research reveals that a new economics of intellectual property is prevailing. Increasingly, [...]

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In our forthcoming book, Wikinomics (Portfolio 2006) Don Tapscott and I describe how a growing number of forward-thinking companies are blowing open their laboratory doors and inviting partners and competitors alike to share the risks and rewards of developing deep, long-term innovations in their industries. We argued that collaboration makes sense in a world where [...]

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