Powering Communities for Prize Challenges
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This document summarizes an organization that runs prize challenges to crowdsource innovation. It ignites the collaborative power of the crowd to accelerate ideas from concept to implementation. The organization targets and activates passionate solvers to produce better solutions. It cultivates transformative products and services by tapping into public knowledge and resources. The crowd innovation process involves 6 steps - activation, ideation, solutions, innovation, prototyping, incubation and evaluation. In 2017, it awarded $4 million in prize money, incubated 22 start-ups, and launched 13 challenges that activated over 5,000 solvers. It provides case studies of challenge winners including a chemical-resistant combat boot and a self-decontaminating hazmat suit.
Powering Communities for Prize Challenges
- 1. POWERING COMMUNITIES FOR PRIZE CHALLENGES
- 2. BORN FROM THE DOE n n n
- 3. RESONANCE AMPLIFIES CROWD INNOVATION n n n
- 4. We do innovation better We accelerate ideas from concept to implementation by igniting the collaborative power of the crowd. This is made possible by targeting and activating the right passionate solvers, producing better solutions for your challenge. Said simply, we crowdsource innovation. Crowdsource Innovation To cultivate transformative products and services by tapping into the knowledge and resources of the public
- 5. Crowd Innovation Process 1 Activation Ideation Solutions Innovation Prototyping Incubation Evaluation 2 3 4 5 6 Where’s the talent & what motivates them? What’s possible? What’s viable? What’s feasible? What’s scalable? What’s the impact?
- 7. Crowd Innovation Process 1 Activation Ideation Solutions Innovation Prototyping Incubation Evaluation 2 3 4 5 6 Where’s the talent & what motivates them? What’s possible? What’s viable? What’s feasible? What’s scalable? What’s the impact?
- 8. 2017 IMPACT METRICS PRIZE MONEY AWARDED INCUBATED START-UPS $4M 22 CHALLENGES LAUNCHED 13 SOLVERS ACTIVATED 5K
- 9. CASE STUDY n n n
- 11. TIM JULIA JOHNDENISE AMY Designer/EntrepreneurResearcher/Student Textile Technologist MEET THE PROBLEM SOLVERS PERSONAS Maker/Hobbyist Active Duty • Defined by dozens of attributes and interests • Ensure increased optionality • Millions in potential audience size
- 12. AUDIENCE ACTIVATED • Paid and organic social outreach • Community management • Tailored creative
- 13. P A G E 1 3 STORIES FROM PROOF CHALLENGE One of the runners-up finalists was Michele Putko. Michele is a mother of three and Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She also has degrees from the U.S. Army War College and U.S. Military Academy at West Point. She and her three children developed a solution for Proof Challenge in the “Mobility” Category. § Her submission, the “ChemBio Combat Duck Boot,” was to get rid of the over boot and employ a ChemBio boot, similar to a duck boot high top sneaker. The bottom of the boot would be made from the same butyl rubber material as a standard COTS duck boot, such as the popular LL Bean duck boot. The top or upper part of the boot would be made from the same material as the outer shell of the JSLIST protective garment; 50% nylon and 50% cotton with a water-repellant finish. The proposed Duck Boot would be lighter, waterproof at the base (unlike most current combat boots), water resistant in the upper region and most importantly, comfortable. One of the top three finalists was Thomas Luginbill. Thomas is Chairman at Grey Matter, a transfer-technology startup that works with first responders and law enforcement to create personal protective equipment for agents in the field. He worked with the College of Southern Maryland’s Endowed Entrepreneur & Innovation Institute to submit a “Mobility” solution for Proof Challenge. § Grey Matter’s idea, the “SPIDER Suit,” uses a self-decontaminating polymer in directly eliminating risk. The SPIDER Suit filters toxic chemicals, and self-decontaminates. The Suit also traps chemicals and breaks them down into H2O. SPIDER technology integrates with lightweight fabrics, keeping users cool, dry, and alert.
- 14. LET’S GET STARTED twitter.com/sensischallengesensischallenges.com www.facebook.com/sensischallenges www.linkedin.com/company/sensischallenges mcontreras@sensisagency.com n n n