Start-up HunchBuzz enables businesses to cut R&D costs by crowdsourcing innovation
New open innovation crowdsourcing platform HunchBuzz, inspires strategic business innovation by capturing and managing the best customer and employee insights, ideas and feedback.
GE's first local Challenge is an open innovation competition which calls on businesses, entrepreneurs, innovators and students to submit real ideas for low carbon solutions and technologies.
Patients who are frequently hospitalized account for a disproportionate amount of health care spending in the United States. Working with a $6.1 million grant, a new University of Chicago Medicine program will test whether an updated version of the traditional general practitioner can reduce...
When 25 percent of the payments to community health clinics were based on quality of care, patients received better care and had better depression outcomes. The results of this initiative are published in the American Journal of Public Health in the paper, "Quality Improvement with...
It is called the CPC (Comprehensive Primary Care) initiative, and aims to strengthen coordination and collaboration between private and public health care payers in order to improve primary care. According to Medicare, it will liaise with both commercial and State health insurance plans and...
The Rutherford Innovation Showcase is shaping up to be a must attend event with a host of international tech stars and visitors due to descend on New Zealand's technology scene.
A unique service that enables parents in New Zealand to protect their children against bullying by TXT and PXT has won Vodafone New Zealand and its technology partner Telsis a joint global award for innovation.
Atlanta Vascular Research Foundation (AVRF), together with its collaborators at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI), has been awarded an Innovation PEI Pilot and Discovery Fund grant by Innovation PEI. The grant is to continue research and development in combining nutraceuticals to...
InteRNA Technologies B.V., a biopharmaceutical company developing pathway targeted microRNA (miRNA)-based therapeutics for cancer, announced that it was awarded an Innovation Credit of EUR 1.3 million from the Dutch government. This award will support the development of miRNA-based therapeutics...
Scientists at the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have developed a means of representing a 3D model ear, to help redefine the standard for a pinna simulator (the pinna is the outer part of the ear) - used to measure sound in the way we perceive it. The nature of human hearing is heavily...
Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. (EES), a leader in surgical technology, will showcase the company's recent innovations and preview future advancements in surgery at the 96th Annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) in Washington D.C. this week. The new products represent the...