https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601884/why-kickstarters-glowing-plant-left-backers-in-the-dark/
…many links on different platforms and projects
The project Glowing Plant: Natural Lighting without Electricity Now order: Glowing Plant seeds $50 A pack of 50-100 fertile seeds of Glowing Plant Arabidopsis. Use the plants as a nightlight or show them off to your friends. The seeds are expected to ship in September 2014 or Maker Kit $300 The maker kit includes the …
December 2012 –DTRA announces the 1M Algorithm Challenge to characterize a clinical sample from DNA sequencing data. http://www.prweb.com/releases/dtra/algorithm/prweb10233480.htm The challenge was managed by the online platform Innocentive: https://www.innocentive.com/ar/challenge/9933138 Innocentive is actually interesting to look at: (CIA through IN-Q-Tel) crowdsources scientific problems to solvers (http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2012/11/29/how-in-q-tel-helps-cia-scout-for-innovative-technology-model-for-other-agencies/) Although very enthusiastic at first, I did not participate in the …