Tim Brown of IDEO wrote an interesting article on Participation in Design. The premise is that innovation will and should increasingly come from groups, not individuals, crowds not buddies – the social Web. I could not agree more.

The question is how do we design the next set of systems to drive crowd innovation and what implications does it have for Intellectual Property rights. blur Group have a few of  the answers, based on crowdsourcing, which utilize Web 2.0 style platforms to harness the collective thinking of specialists groups or people to answer critical questions, develop group IP or even build ideas and businesses together.

Crowds are the future – the question is how do we harness them? A recently formed crowd of entrepreneurs, innovators and artists has some answers.