Innocentive August Challenge

Do you know someone who would be a great Solver? Forward this Challenge Bulletin to a friend, or share an individual Challenge below. Featured Challenges: CTTSO Challenge: Designing a Performance Support App for User-Generated Content Share this Challenge:  Mobile devices are a powerful and personal tool. They are not only communication devices, but also high resolution cameras, video and audio recorders, GPSs, information repositories, and sensors. Operational users lack a performance support tool that allows them to quickly, easily, and effectively capture and organize information from existing training, documents and reference guides; supplement it with information gathered in the field; and share it with others. The Seeker desires a mobile app that facilitates the collection and creation of content that can be easily organized, accessed, and shared in innovative ways on a smart phone and/or a tablet to improve mission critical performance. This Challenge requires only a written proposal. Challenge 9933545 Deadline: August 10, 2014 Reward: $20,000 Replacing Cellulose Acetate Fiber Filter Matrices Share this Challenge: The Seeker desires a new method to rapidly and precisely join bundles of brass-coated high carbon (> 0.70%) steel filaments end-to-end. This is a Reduction-to-Practice Challenge that requires a written proposal and experimental proof-of-concept data (and/or sample delivery) Challenge 9933513 Deadline: October 16, 2014 Reward: $50,000 Next Generation Queue Design and Model Share this Challenge:  TSA Pre✓™ is an expedited screening program that allows low-risk travelers to experience expedited, more efficient security screening.  This queue line provides a quicker transit through the airport security screening as TSA Pre✓™ passengers do not require the removal of shoes, 3-1-1 compliant liquids, jacket, belt, and may keep their laptop in bag for screening. Current queue layouts at TSA Pre✓™ airports will need to adapt to support the increasing population of TSA Pre✓™ passengers.  TSA is looking for the Next Generation Checkpoint Queue Design Model to apply a scientific and simulation modeling approach to meet queue design and configuration needs of the dynamic security screening environment with TSA Pre✓™. This is an Ideation Challenge with a guaranteed award for at least one submitted solution. Challenge 9933343 Deadline: August 15, 2014 Reward: $15,000 Partner to Identify a Pythium Control Agent Share this Challenge: The Seeker, a Fortune 500 company, is looking for a collaboration partner to help identify a Pythium disease control product for use in turf grass and ornamental plants. A number of Pythium fungicides, all synthetic chemicals, for preventive and/or curative control of a broad range of disease caused by the genus Pythium are known.  The goal of the partnership is to identify novel chemical matter, organisms, or approaches to control Pythium.  This is an electronic Request-for-Partners (eRFP) Challenge; the Solver (including a team or company) will only need to submit a written proposal to be evaluated by the Seeker with a goal of establishing a collaborative partnership. Challenge 9933589 Deadline: August 28, 2014 Reward: Varies Thomson Reuters Eikon Text Tagging Challenge Share this Challenge:  Investors are flooded every day by thousands of news items from many different sources – blogs, feeds, internal reports, news services – yet only a small number of those items may be of interest to a particular investor.  Filtering these news items for companies or organizations of interest is becoming increasingly important as the number and variety of sources expands, yet it is becoming more difficult because many of these news items are not explicitly tagged with the relevant companies or organizations.  The Seeker, Thomson Reuters, is searching for an algorithm to accurately tag incoming news items by relevance for companies or organizations mentioned within the news item. This is a Reduction-to-Practice Challenge that requires written documentation and delivery of source codeimplementing an algorithm that solves the problem.  Additionally, as a Prodigy Challenge a real-time online scoring utility and leaderboard will be available to track Solver algorithm performance. This Challenge has a special award structure with awards of$20,000, $10,000, and $5,000 for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, respectively for granting the Seeker a non-exclusive license to practice the solutions.  In addition, the Seeker may, at its sole discretion, award an additional $20,000 (“Additional Award”) to one or more of the submissions awarded a Licensing Award to obtain ownership of the solution.  Awards will be based on Seeker’s determination of solution performance using a reserved independent validation set. Challenge 9933333 Deadline: August 26, 2014 Reward: See Details NASA Challenge:  New Ways to Use, Visualize, and Analyze OpenNEX Climate and Earth Science Data Share this Challenge: NASA is seeking creative new ways to utilize the Climate and Earth Science data recently made available on the Open NASA Earth Exchange (OpenNEX) platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS).  This Challenge is being run in conjunction with the 2014 NEX Virtual workshop to engage and enable individuals and groups to provide new contributions and insight to address global climate change.  This is an Ideation Challenge with a guaranteed award for at least one submitted solution. Challenge 9933584 Deadline: July 31, 2014 Reward: $10,000 Cleveland Clinic: Developing a Biosensor Device Share this Challenge: The Cleveland Clinic is in the process of developing an invasive biosensor device that will be used for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.  This device will be developed with the use of novel nanotechnology, and the goal is to improve patient safety and procedural reliability.  This is an electronic Request for partners (eRFP) Challenge; The Solver will need to submit a written proposal to be evaluated by the Cleveland Clinic with the goal of establishing a collaborative partnership. Challenge 9933484 Deadline: August 2, 2014 Reward:Varies Novel Methods of Non-Traumatic Attachment to Body Tissues Share this Challenge: The use of medical devices often requires the temporary attachment of the apparatus on or in the body. Following a healing/therapy period, the device must be removed and this is preferably accomplished without incurring further injury to the dermis or surrounding tissue. The Seeker desires a method to attach a device to soft tissue that is quick to apply and does not result in additional tissue trauma on removal. This Challenge requires only a written proposal. Challenge 9933319 Deadline: September 2, 2014 Reward: $10,000 Surface Modified Microcapsules for Better Adhesion Share this Challenge:  The Seeker is looking for a way to modify the surface of microcapsules to make them stickier.  The microcapsules are 10 – 50 microns in size, and can be made of polymeric materials such as melamine-formaldehyde, polyurea, gelatin-crosspolymer or polyacrylates. The modifications to these microcapsules should lead to increased adhesion to one or more of the following:  natural fibers such as cotton, wool, or silk, synthetic fibers such as polyester or viscose, hair, skin, or leather.  This Challenge requires only a written proposal. Challenge 9933153 Deadline: July 27, 2014 Reward: $25,000 INNOCENTIVE AND INNOCENTIVE CHALLENGE ARE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS OF INNOCENTIVE, INC. OTHER PRODUCT OR SERVICE NAMES MENTIONED HEREIN ARE THE TRADEMARKS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS. 245 WINTER STREET | WALTHAM, MA 02169 | USA CONTACT | WEBSITE | PRIVACY POLICY

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