Steve Rader, Retired NASA leader of Open Innovation

Open Innovation has become essential to good science being completed by our institutions.  Our guest this week, Steve Rader speaks with experience on how open innovation, rather crowdsourcing has and will shape good science work moving forward. Steven recently retired from NASA and is an expert in open innovation after 36 years with NASA at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX.  

We discussed his experiences leveraging crowdsourcing and open innovation to achieve significant cost savings and accelerate technological advancements at NASA,  including nearly 900 successful challenges within his career.  He highlighted the importance of understanding a problem’s root causes before brainstorming solutions and the four “G’s” driving participation (Gold, Guts, Glory, and Good) by thousands of our neighbors passionate about the work of science.  

Our listeners can connect with Steve by clicking here.

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