April 23rd, 2010
The end of Open Innovation: Are we at the brink of a world war for talents?
Public tweakfest 2010 roundtable with Starmind live streamed today at Wilmaa.com:
Fr., April 23, 2010, 13:30h Swiss time. Read more about the roundtable on tweakfest.
The tweakfest 10 TRADE conference is addressed to the avantgarde of the digital world and any other curious spirits wanting to engage early-on with the digital changes taking place. Futurologists, virtual goods and economists, SMS funds, mobile transactions, open innovation, know-how-trading, mobile applications and art world rumours.
Background and motivation
The value of the raw material Know-how is recognized and less and less experts like to share it for free. Starmind distinguishes itself from the „knowledge of the mass“-movements (crowdsourcing, mass innovation) through a radical selection for talents.
Today, Know-how intense industries in High-Tech represent the main part of global economic growth . In a highly competitive market, over CHF 1’000 billion are invested into innovation and research departments of companies and universities all over the world. The economic value of innovative individuals and talents is increasing significantly as differentiation and competitive advantage become more and more important.
Most open innovation platforms suffer from the following shortcomings:
- Quality: It is often difficult to monitor and guarantee the quality of transferred solutions and ideas
- Costs: There are often high entry barriers and fees for question posers
- Time: The process of selecting and rating of many solutions is time-consuming
- Benefit: The differentiation from free expert portals, wikis and search engines such as google.com is often unclea
- IP: Intellectual property can get lost if it is publicized without being supervised
- Motivation: Why should I share my know-how?
In this context, Starmind defines Know-how as a tradable raw material. Questions allow the transformation from Know-how as raw material into usable solutions that generate added value.
The question of the question poser is as important to the creation of a solution as the Know-how of the question solver. Starmind seeks to overcome common shortcomings by presenting a new way of trading with know-how.
Join in today’s live streamed round table on Know-How Trading and Open Innovation taking place at the Tweakfest 2010 at Alte Börse in Zurich, Switzerland.
Tags: digital art, end of open innovation, Know-how trading, Starmind, trade, Tweakfest
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March 22nd, 2010
Today, Starmind launched its first high-IQ group: The high IQ group unites members of high IQ societes ranging from the top 2% (Mensa High-IQ, Ingenium High IQ etc) up to the top 0.0001% of population (e.g. Pi Society, Incognia, Mega Society, Omega Society or Olympiq Society). To give you an example on the selectivity of High IQ societies: There are worldwide 11 members of the OlympIQ society out of a theoretical potential of 1800 members. Starmind features already a significant number of high-IQ members and hence welcomes them to join the Starmind High-IQ group. Starmind group members do not only benefit from a high Starmind ranking and reputation yet shall soon be provided with additional communication and selection functions to optimally single out most fitting Starmind questions.
Admission procedure: Please provide evidence of your High-IQ society membership. As soon as your membership is confirmed by an official of the society or by one of the Starmind region heads, your membership is granted. In case of any question please contact Starmind.
Tags: High-IQ, Mensa, OlympIQ, Prometheus, Starmind group
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March 15th, 2010
Kantonsschule Zürcher Unterland (KZU), Bülach, Switzerland, March 13, 2010: Stefan Kettner, Gymnasium Student at KZU Bülach, Switzerland, did not known that he was selected for a reward until rector Jakob Hauser officially asked him to step forward for accepting the Starmind Best Maturapaper reward. Besides a financial acknowledgment, the Starmind reward includes a personal career coaching, mentorship and an offered internship at one 
of the renowned engineering laboratories at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) or the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Stefan was awarded the Starmind certificate by the Starmind CEO Pascal Kaufmann, former graduate of KZU.
Stefan Kettner – “The flying wing principle: Self-construction of a flying-wing and analysis of its dynamical properties”
Stefan Kettner is interested in engineering, automotive technology, aviation, design and the construction of aircraft. 
In less than 3 months and after several hundred extra hours of work he successfully designed, constructed and flew and self-designed flying wing, German: Nurflügler.
Thierry Bücheler, member of the Starmind Advisory board and Pascal Kaufmann, Starmind partner, nominated Stefan’s work out of over 130 Maturaprojects displayed at KZU. “I was attending Stefan’s presentation about the history and theoretical background of flying wings, detailing the difficulty in construction and design as well as the high potential flying wings have for civil aviation. I really enjoyed the neat investigation on literature and documentation. It was the first time I have seen pictures of the famous German Horton HO IX, built by German engineers in the second world war, of which there are only 2 photos left. When Stefan then elaborated that he constructed such a
flying wing as small prototype (ca. 2.2m wing span) and successfully flew one I was deeply impressed.” states Pascal. “Everyone who has ever self-constructed an aircraft knows what kind of dilligence, stamina and courage it takes to build such an aircraft. Stefan Kettner is definitely a worthy holder of the first Starmind best paper award. Congratulations!”
Admission to the Top Engineers Starmind group
Stefan’s was invited to the newly launched Starmind top engineers group at Starmind. As one of the youngest Starmind members, Stefan aspires to enrole at the Swiss Federal Institte of Technology (ETH) focusing on machine and process engineering. The Starmind award was not only a first step towards a successful career yet Stefan also established and tapped an important network to engineers all over the world.
The Starmind team wishes Stefan all the best.
Tags: certificate, maturapaper, reward, Starmind best paper award
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February 28th, 2010
Don Berry, Starmind master fellow, on how he discovered a rapidly-growing website community which pays its users for intelligent answers. The article was published in the Mensa UK High-IQ society magazin March issue, 2010.
See here the article as PDF.
Tags: Brainpower, High-IQ, IQ, Mensa, Starmind, UK
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February 28th, 2010
Starmind announces the installation of the first Starmind team in Boston, USA. Alex Mulyar, one of the leading Starmind users in the US, heads the Starmind Harvard/MIT group with focus to tap local networks and socities at Harvard[1] and MIT[2] (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
MIT belongs to the leading universities in the field of engineering, while Harvard is the first and most renowned university in the US, ranking number one in recent university reviews[3].
Supported by Swissnex[4] Boston, an organisation of the Swiss Confederation, first contacts could be established and meetings be scheduled. The mission of Swissnex is to unite overseas universities and research institutions with leading Swiss companies and universities.
It is the goal of Starmind USA to expand networks to other universities and research institutions so as to bring together talents and outstanding individuals eager to share know-how and solve challenging problems.
Pascal Kaufmann states upon signing the contracts: “I am positive that Alex and his team at Harvard and MIT will be able to open up effective networks and to identify talents and brilliant minds for Starmind. The affiliation of other universities and institutes is a priority of the Starmind group in the US. Starmind unites talents around the globe and converts know-how directly into solutions, certificates and awards.”
[1] Harvard University
[2] Massachusetts Institute of Technology
[3] University ranking USA
[4] www. swissnexboston.org
Tags: expansion, Harvard, MIT, Starmind, USA
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