Commercial Initiatives

Amazon Mechanical Turk enables companies to use crowdsourcing for quick tasks that require human intelligence in exchange for micropayments.
Eclipse is IBM's open source development platform. Listen to npr interview on open innovation driving IBM's Blue Gene.
Open IT Works promotes sharing of best practices, shared problem solving, collaboration on a project, product and vendor reviews.
osmosoft is BT effort to harness rich innovation within open source communities.
Sun open source community innovation awards include GlassFish, OpenJDK and others.