<p>Network World - IBM is readying its fourth internal Kickstarter-like crowdfunding effort over the past year or so to inspire employees to innovate and collaborate, often across departments and the globe.</p><p>Michael Muller</p><p>According to IBM Research member Michael Muller, who spoke this week at the Crowdfunding East conference at the Harvard Faculty Club, IBM has embraced the crowdfunding model popularized in recent years by Kickstarter, Indiegogo and hundreds of other such platforms that match up creators and financial backers from among the masses.</p><p>But IBM's "behind-the-firewall" form of crowdfunding, for which Muller has coined the term "enterprise crowdfunding, is unique in that it isn't open to the public (though perhaps a hybrid model could emerge some day?).</p><p><a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/083013-ibm-kickstarter-273374.html">Keep reading...</a></p>