A number of agencies within the NIH have come together to announce a one-day meeting on “Crowdsourcing: The Art and Science of Open Innovation,” to be held on the NIH grounds in Bethesda, MD, July 18, 2011.  The goal of the meeting is to lay the foundation for running successful challenges in biomedical and health research.

Specifically, the meeting will:

explore new ways to incentivize innovation in biomedical research with the prize authority recently given to all Federal agencies by Congress. The meeting will focus on the key aspects of this new approach that include: how to identify problems that can be solved through open innovation; how to communicate a scientific problem across disciplines — to a lay person or a technology geek; and how to test, evaluate and synergize the solutions.

To learn more about the meeting, visit the meeting website. Attendance is free.

(Contributed by Erwin Gianchandani, CCC Director)