Extreme collaboration: The Formula 1 Intensive Care Unit

An example of "extreme collaboration" from NESTA - Formula 1 race teams and Great Ormond Street Children's hospital, London. But as my blog response below suggests, it is easy to confuse collaboration and re-use and they are different (though complementary) things:

"But is the example of the Wii hack an axample of extreme collaboration or rather "re-use" i.e. taking something developed for one purpose and using elsewhere? To my knowledge Nintendo played no role in the re-use project. Re-use is well understood (think Velcro, originally for airline seats but applications everywhere) but collaboration to apply knowledge gained in one domain to solve a problem in another much less so. Innovation exchanges such as www.innocentive.com are trying to bridge this gap at the personal level."
Posted by: Brendan Dunphy 26 Apr 2008 09:19:28