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Nokia Corporation (NYSE:NOK), a mobile communications developer based in
Finland, unveiled last week a celine
trapeze competition for medical sensing solutions that indicates a
new direction for the company, as well as a novel way of using open innovation.
The competition, called the Nokia Sensing X Challenge, is conducted with the X
Prize Foundation, and has a total purse of $2.25 million.
The challenge is celine mini
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planned for the next three years. Through the competition, Nokia aims to
generate ideas for systems, software, devices, or components that can detect and
measure biological, cognitive, physical, environmental, and even emotional
phenomena involving the human body.
The competition is structured to encourage more serious entrants than
offthewall ideas. Competitors are encouraged to form teams and submit an
intenttocompete form before sending in an entry. export controls or sanctions.
In the judging criteria, for example, one set of factors for judging entries is
usability, defined as weight (lower is better), unobtrusiveness, and size
(smaller preferred), as well as needs for power and data. Another celine
box judging factor that suggests a preference for mobile is
affordability, defined as inexpensive enough to be accessible to consumers.
The technologies specifically mentioned in the guidelines emphasize
miniaturization, such as microelectrical mechanical systems and labonachip
technologies. Again, these solutions would most likely be celine
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devices using mobile health care or life science technologies.
Yet another indication Nokia favors mobile solutions is the connection to a
similar challenge by mobile semiconductor maker Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM),
announced in January 2012. The Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize, with a $10 million
total purse, specifically seeks "devices that will give consumers access to
their state of health in the palm of their hand." Teams that enter ideas in
Qualcomm's challenge, also conducted by XPrize Foundation, may also submit their
ideas to celine mini
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An expansion by Nokia into health care IT appears celine trio
bag to fit into its partnership with Microsoft Corporation
(NASDAQ:MSFT). Microsoft has a long involvement with healthcare IT, including
its Health Vault platform for storing medical data. Last year, Microsoft
unveiled a mobile version of Health Vault, including the ability to sign in with
a Facebook ID.
Not much of a track recordWhile many companies sponsor challenges and idea
competitions, this challenge seems to be one of the few to use crowdsourcing for
ideas outside of a company's usual line of business. Most corporate open
innovation programs, like those for Eli Lilly Company (NYSE:LLY) and Procter and
Gamble (NYSE:PG), normally operate as extensions of their corporate research
departments, supplementing current celine
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collaborations with research universities. In addition, Nokia appears to have
hardly any track record in healthcare or the life sciences. Mounting the Sensing
X Challenge advertises its intention to exploit these fields, but in the
process, can generate a collection of useful technologies with which to
compete.
This strategy can also provide these technologies with relatively low
investment and probably faster development times than most corporate R The first
awards are scheduled for May 2013, with subsequent awards in October 2013 and
October 2014. Entrants are encouraged to submit study results, diagrams, videos,
and prototypes, not just ideas on paper.
By the second quarter of 2015, when the challenge Celine Handbags is
expected to officially close, Nokia should be well positioned to compete in the
healthcare sector.
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