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Wikipedia: Harnessing Collaborative Intelligence

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Wikipedia, as an Internet-based innovation network, manifests distributed collaborative intelligence, illustrating principles for experimental venture laboratories, high return startup accelerators based less upon traditional directioned innovation, more on intersecting networks and innovation clusters and the method being used in program development for a NASA initiated Planetary Sustainability Co•Laboratory.

What use could the company make of an electric toy?

Western Union on rejecting rights to the telephone, 1878.

Acknowledging the innovative leadership of Sustainable Silicon Valley in building innovative links between new venture creation and smart systems for eco-cities to support a Planetary Sustainability Co•Laboratory (PS Co•Lab), engaging the collaborative intelligence of NASA, SSV, and other partners.

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Gill, Z. (2013). Wikipedia: Harnessing Collaborative Intelligence. In: Curley, M., Formica, P. (eds) The Experimental Nature of New Venture Creation. Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00179-1_12

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