One of the companies that are actively engaged in the development of crowdsourcing is Lego. Lego is a company that involved in developing creativity of children through playing and learning (“The LEGO Group”, n.d.). Also, it is best well-known for the manufacture of Lego-brand toys. This is because Lego has been building our imaginations with little plastic blocks since 1949 and has become an empire built on the stunningly simple and clear concept of interlocking toy bricks. With roots as a small start-up in Germany, the brand now spans the globe and is a meaningful part of childhood lives worldwide. The iconic toymaker’s outstanding innovation has led the company to sweeping success decade after decade, shaping, and being shaped by, the themes …show more content…
Samsung is also aggressively involved in the development of crowdsourcing. Based on Stickler (2013), Samsung Group headquartered in Seoul and it is South Korea’s largest business group.
In Palo Alto (CA.), Samsung launched the world's largest crowdsourcing facility. It solicits flexible open innovation solutions for many of its technology and electronic products such as flexible screen technologies, smart cameras, semi-conductors and so on. In 2013, Samsung collaborated with crowdsourcing-leader, Marbler to crowd source ideas on how they could employ newly discovered patents from NASA. They offered users the opportunity to help create the company’s next product and earn a share of income. They are crowdsourcing ideas through a contest.
The Korean smartphone manufacturer is asking publics to contribute ideas around what type of devices to make with its flexible display technology. The Flexible Future Business Plan Contest is offering up a $10,000 first prize, as well as smaller second and third prize cash prizes, to an individual or company that comes up with the best and superior ideas on how to apply thin, flexible or even foldable displays to the marketplace (Etherington, 2013). The guideline is quiet simple and clear. The displays can be anything from 1 to 20 inches, HD, and flat, bendy, foldable or rollable. Besides, the display should be a major part of the product. The product’s value
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Dell is an American computer hardware company founded in Round Rock, Texas (Dijk & Schipper, 2007). Besides, it is one of the largest technology companies in the world with 138,000 employees. It builds new and innovative conceptual designs by crowdsourcing idea generation to individuals outside the company (Markopoulos, Martens, Malins, Coninx & Liapis, 2016). Since 2007, it has received more than 16,000 crowdsourced ideas where 500 of them have been executed.
Dell Social Innovation Challenge discoveries and helps develop innovative projects that aid in solving major world issues concerning sustainability, health, hunger, poverty, science and technology. Annually, this program engages more than 60,000 college students in an international competition to have their social enterprises funded. This program encourages and inspires college students to conceptualize and work on great ideas that have world-changing