Democratising innovation for vehicle design

Public agencies are applying the principles of crowdsourcing to new tech design projects in efforts to both reduce the costs of government procurement and to gain access to the best ideas. The 2013 winners of the drive-train element of the US's DARPA FANG Challenge were a team of three who had never met before collaborating on their proposal (link).

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DARPA Vehicle Forge: (link)

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