articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . august 2016 presans sas type private industry open innovation innovation consulting product development search engines r & d founded paris france 2008 headquarters paris france france products open innovation crowdsourcing expert sourcing research services website www.presans.com presans is an open innovation company organizing global online calls for expertise . contents 1 about the company 2 history 3 information retrieval for expert sourcing 4 references about the company edit presans is an open innovation european company 1 located in paris . presans through its base line and service offering claims to connect business and expertise 2 by organizing worldwide calls for expertise and problem solving competitions in various industrial sectors such as defence space and aeronautics advanced manufacturing & materials energy and resources food and agriculture clients include mostly large organizations universities and research organizations cole polytechnique cnrs . according to micha l haddad 3 presans is part of the growing french heart of the knowledge economy . history edit presans was founded in 2008 . the company won the innovation prize of the cole polytechnique that was handed to the management by nobel prize laureate albert fert . 4 early in 2011 presans launched an online version of the expert search engine x search . 5 x search is comparable to other tools such as biomedexperts developed by collexis in the sense that it allows identification of a large number of experts in the world . however despite the large database announced by presans experts profiles appear not to be as rich as that of biomedexperts . information retrieval for expert sourcing edit as described in the book a guide to open innovation and crowdsourcing 6 foreworded by henry chesbrough presans focuses on expert sourcing rather than on crowdsourcing . for this purpose they have developed the approach called the multistep dynamic expert sourcing mdes . 7 according to the book and the publication referenced above mdes relies on a combination between a web mining technology and a multistep problem solving process . in this approach experts do not register instead the various digital tracks they leave on the web allow to detect and to invite them on demand to tackle challenging technological problems . for this purpose presans appears to have a research and development activity in computer science in the fields of information retrieval and data mining . 8 references edit european commission 2009 . presans a new open innovation intermediary . presans connect business to expertise . http www.paristechreview.com 2014 11 30 technology scouting o.f. journalist at l est republicain 2010 . presans and the globalization of expertise in french pdf . charles foucault journalist at industrie & technologies 2011 . presans finds experts for you in french . paul sloan ; et al. 2010 . a guide to open innovation and crowdsourcing . missing or empty url help meige and golden 2010 . dynamic expert sourcing pdf . vassilis plachouras european conference on information retrieval 2011 . diversity in expert search . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title presans & oldid 734495339 categories crowdsourcinginnovation consulting firmsopen innovation intermediariessocial information processinghidden categories pages using web citations with no urlorphaned articles from august 2016all orphaned articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 august 2016 at 19 00 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view