InnoCrowding Group to Deliver Chaordix™ Crowdsourcing Solutions - 11/12/2009

Crowdsourcing service leader selects Chaordix to strengthen its open innovation service offering to Italian companies. With global demand for crowdsourcing in multiple languages and geographical markets increasing, Chaordix has formed a new partnership with InnoCrowding Group, a leading service provider in crowd-based innovation, to deliver advanced crowdsourcing technology. Chaordix helps organizations apply crowdsourcing for purposes including generating ideas for new products or services, predicting market reaction, enhancing brand relevance, performing tasks, fundraising and engaging a crowd to develop research, technology, policy and product solutions. Chaordix crowdsourcing platform equips organizations to harness crowds including the broad public, employees, consumers and other stakeholders. Participants submit, refine and rank contributions that organizations can then apply to better perform. "Europe, and in particular Italy, is made up of small and medium enterprises that require flexibility, customization, adaptation, and localization in how they apply crowdsourcing,” said Dr. Alexander M. Orlando, InnoCrowding Group’s CEO. “Chaordix flexible features are a great addition to our portfolio of innovation enablers.sm The Italian public administration, universities, and private enterprise have welcomed the utilization of a culturally tailored open innovation platform. ” “We particularly value the specialized multilingual translation and localization services InnoCrowding offers to help us reach global markets,” said Shelley Kuipers, Chaordix President & CEO. “The expertise that InnoCrowding Group brings to this partnership gives us confidence and expertise in fostering greater and greater participation in open innovation among enterprises and governments worldwide.” About InnoCrowding Group InnoCrowding Group delivers comprehensive open innovation services that encourage the multilingual participation and creativity of the global crowd. Offering a series of proprietary platforms, InnoCrowding Group helps our clients choose the right open innovation model and the right crowd to achieve results. Our mission as “innovation enablerssm” is to provide scalable and tailored solutions to private enterprises as well as government agencies and departments. Find out more about us at www.innocrowding.com. View our multilingual social network of innovators at www.InnovaHub.com. About Chaordix Chaordix delivers the technology and know-how to help organizations use crowdsourcing to better perform. Chaordix makes it simple to seek and interpret input from the broad public, customers, employees and other partners. Delivered in a software-as-a-service model, the Chaordix crowdsourcing platform™ is an engine to call to the crowd to contribute innovation, market and citizen prediction, research discovery, fundraising and brand input. Find out more about us at www.chaordix.com.

General Mills Invites Innovation - 11/5/2009 11:12:00 AM

General Mills announced the launch of General Mills Worldwide Innovation Network (G-WIN), a site where scientists, researchers, engineers, inventors and entrepreneurs around the globe can find opportunities to partner with General Mills on initiatives across the company’s portfolio of consumer brands. To submit your ideas... https://openinnovation.generalmills.com/Submission_Process.aspx The new G-WIN innovation portal provides visitors with details on nearly 50 technical challenges the company is looking to solve. Those who join the G-WIN community by registering online will receive ongoing updates about specific technical challenges that match their unique abilities and expertise. The innovation portal allows visitors to submit novel ideas and respond to the company’s list of innovation opportunities. General Mills is interested in product, package and processing technologies that are applicable to the company’s categories or brands, uniquely meet an unmet consumer need, have been proven technically feasible and can be applied quickly, or are potentially game-changing for the food industry. The company will evaluate proposals and will respond to all submissions within three weeks. "G-WIN is our call to outside partners to let them know that we’re serious about open innovation,” said Jeff Bellairs, director of G-WIN. “It’s about reaching outside of our company, working with other inventors and incorporating their eureka moments with our unique capabilities to create bigger innovation in the marketplace.”

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