Innocentive and the Rockefeller Foundation have announced an interesting collaboration today sensitizing scientists and entrepreneurs for problems of the poor and vulnerable in the world. Thereby Innocentive will provide its platform for this non-profit application of Crowdsourcing. Rockefeller will offer rewards for the best solutions.

We consider this approach very promising for solving social problems with the support of the masses’ innovation power. Frank Piller writes about this today as well:

It has been shown that this “broadcasting” of problems instead of seeking for a problem internally is a highly efficient mechanism. So using it not only for commercial firms, but to generate science and technology solutions to pressing development problems, is a great idea.

For further information on the topic look at: Rockfound Foundation, Economist