General Idea Generation & Solving
- AddictLab - creative think tank
- Brain Reactions - post questions and get ideas/feedback on them
- Fellowforce - innovation challenge board covering many disciplines
- iBridge Network - platform for university innovation
- IdeaConnection - idea marketplace and problem solving
- Idea Crossing - organize innovation quests
- IdeaMagnet - powering idea generation
- Ideawicket - open innovation portal
- Innovation Exchange - open innovation market place
- WhyNot - idea exchange
Science & Research
- Innocentive - crowdsourcing scientific solutions to corporate problems
- Science Commons - generic license agreements
- TekScout - crowdsourcing R&D solutions
- YourEncore - crowd of retired veteran scientists and engineers
Freelance work
- elance - freelance marketplace
- Guru - freelance community
- Ki Work - sourcing online work
- odesk - global marketplace for remote work
Micro-tasks
- Amazon Mechanical Turk - micro-task crowdsourcing
- HumanGrid - small online tasks solving
Technology
- Ninesigma - technology problem solving
- TopCoder - programming competitions
- Yet2.com – crowdsourcing technology solutions to problems
Product Design
- CrowdSpirit - crowdsourcing the design of innovative products
Creative/Graphic Design
- 99 Designs – design crowdsource contests
- CrowdSpring – network of graphic designers
- Genius Rocket – crowdsourcing creative community
- Inkd - market for print design
Entrepreneurs & Inventors
Consumer Ideas & Feedback
- CrowdSound – ideas from customers/users
- Idea Bounty - a social think tank
Health & Medical
- Eureke medical - medical open innovation platform
Enterprise Crowdsourcing/Open Innovation Sites
- Betavine - Vodafone’s mobile app community
- BMW Customer Innovation Lab - in german
- BT - British Telecom’s Innovation Initiative
- Dell IdeaStorm - external idea sourcing
- Fluevog - open shoe design
- GameChanger - Shell’s coporate crowdsourcing
- IBM InnovationJam - internally focused idea generation project
- IBM ThinkPlace - idea generation and collaboration
- Intel Cool Software - Intel’s sensing platform
- Jones Soda - crowdsources flavours and pictures for their labels
- Kraft - innovate with Kraft
- LEGO Factory - LEGO co-creation tool
- My Starbucks Idea - shaping the future of Starbucks
- Nesta - UK National Endowment of Science, Technology and the Arts
- P&G Open Innovation Challenge - external idea sourcing in Britain
- Unilever - Ideas4Unilever - corporate venturing
- Vocalpoint - Pgamp;G’s network for women
Crowdsourcing Contests
- City of Austin - feedback on City of Austin’s website
- Electrolux Design Lab - annual design competition for students
- The Guardian - Crowdsourcing analysis of MPs expenses
- Muji - improving and suggesting new designs
- National Geographic - crowdsourced Earth-saving ideas
- Nespresso - design contest for coffee machines
- Peugeot - Peugeot’s design contest
- Picnic Green Challenge - ideas to save the planet
- Smith Chips - crowdsourced flavour selection
- Staples Invention Quest - idea contest
- Xprize - incentivized crowdsourcing competition
Consumer/Customer Input
- Get Satisfaction - crowdsourced customer service
- You Suggest - ideas from customers
Clothing, Gifts & Other Products
- Cafepress - shop, create or sell what’s on your mind
- JuJups - personalized gifts
- Naked&Angry - Threadless for ties and wallcoverings
- Polyvore - crowdsourced fashion
- Spreadshirt - shirt community
- Threadless - create and sell your tshirts
Funding
- Artistshare – fans funding new artists
- A Swarm of Angels - crowdfunding a film
- Kickstarter - fund ideas and endeavours
- Kiva – crowdfunded micro-loans to 3rd world entrepreneurs
- My Bandstock - fan funded investment in bands
- Sellaband – crowdfunded bands
Miscellaneous
- Better than the Van – crowdsourced community connecting bands to places to stay
- Crowd Flower – crowdsourcing for human-required tasks
- Elastic Lab - film production
- Groupon - crowdsourced group discounts
- Help me Investigate - a place to collaborate with others to investigate things
- Inkling Markets - use wisdom of the crowd for forecasting
- iStockPhoto - user-generated photos
- Healogica – crowdsourcing clinical trials
- Help me Investigate - a place to collaborate with others to investigate things
- Hollr - crowdsourcing cool stuff finding
- Quirky - production of crowdsourced ideas
- Stumble Upon - crowdsourced website discovery engine
- uTest - user experience testing
- Wikipedia - peer produced encyclopedia
From http://www.chaordix.com/crowdsourcing-in-action
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