I have written a 12-part blog-series, outlining an ambitious plan to radically transform the global innovation system, so that humanity is better able to confront Covid-19 and the many other challenges that we face. What is proposed, is the development of the ‘Grand Machine’ – an online science, innovation and technology platform of such epic scope, that its full-scale institutionalisation would amount to an Open Innovation Revolution.

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The blog explores how the Machine seeks to tackle the pandemic – through the evolution and execution of a detailed Coronavirus Grand Plan and the integrated application of multiple open innovation and crowdsourcing mechanisms. Then, venturing further, we will discover how the platform aims to counter each death attributed to C-19, by saving at least two lives in return (from other diseases and disasters).

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In describing how the Machine can be used to deal with the Coronavirus, this blog-series effectively uses the pandemic as a hypothetical test-case – an example of how ‘Wide Open Innovation’ can be applied to solve many of the Grand Challenges confronting our species… from Cancer to Climate Change.