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dc.contributor.authorRamadi, Khalil
dc.contributor.authorNguyen, Freddy T.
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-16T20:05:37Z
dc.date.available2021-03-16T20:05:37Z
dc.date.issued2021-02
dc.date.submitted2020-06
dc.identifier.issn2398-6352
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130145
dc.description.abstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected life worldwide. Governments have been faced with the formidable task of implementing public health measures, such as social distancing, quarantines, and lockdowns, while simultaneously supporting a sluggish economy and stimulating research and development (R&D) for the pandemic. Catalyzing bottom-up entrepreneurship is one method to achieve this. Home-grown efforts by citizens wishing to contribute their time and resources to help have sprouted organically, with ideas shared widely on the internet. We outline a framework for structured, crowdsourced innovation that facilitates collaboration to tackle real, contextualized problems. This is exemplified by a series of virtual hackathon events attracting over 9000 applicants from 142 countries and 49 states. A hackathon is an event that convenes diverse individuals to crowdsource solutions around a core set of predetermined challenges in a limited amount of time. A consortium of over 100 partners from across the healthcare spectrum and beyond defined challenges and supported teams after the event, resulting in the continuation of at least 25% of all teams post-event. Grassroots entrepreneurship can stimulate economic growth while contributing to broader R&D efforts to confront public health emergencies.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (Award F32DK122762)en_US
dc.publisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLCen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-021-00397-5en_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licenseen_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.sourceNatureen_US
dc.titleRapid crowdsourced innovation for COVID-19 response and economic growthen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationRamadi, Khalil B. and Freddy T. Nguyen." NPJ Digital Medicine 4, 1 (February 2021): 18. © 2021 The Author(s)en_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Medical Engineering & Scienceen_US
dc.relation.journalNPJ Digital Medicineen_US
dc.eprint.versionFinal published versionen_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticleen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerRevieweden_US
dspace.date.submission2021-03-10T18:50:43Z
mit.journal.volume4en_US
mit.journal.issue1en_US
mit.licensePUBLISHER_CC
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