For me the recruitment of regular folks into the scientific process is the most exciting facet of the open innovation movement. The following is a fascinating talk by Dr Chris Lintott and Dr Brooke Simmons talk about the future of citizen science, delivered to Oxford University’s Oxford Martin School. The talk focuses on the Zooniverse platform due to the experience Dr Lintott has had running and growing the platform.
It’s well worth a watch if this is a topic of interest to you.
Really interesting Adi, thanks?!?
I think that you would be really interested in some recent research that I have come across explaining crowds, open innovation, and citizen science.? ?In particular I feel you may find these two emerging pieces of research very relevant:
– The Theory of Crowd Capital http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_i…
– The Contours of Crowd Capability http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_i…
And you may also enjoy this blog about the same too: https://thecrowdsociety.jux.com/
Powerful stuff, no?
Very much so, thanks a lot for sharing, I look forward to reading those papers. I've also added the blog to my feed reader.