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title: Conract research by Eli Lilly
date: "2002-08-26T12:00:00Z"
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wp_id: 1202
description: Eli Lilly is crowdsourcing chemistry research by posting specific scientific problems online. Solvers who provide successful solutions to these challenges receive financial bounties, turning complex pharmaceutical R&D into an open, incentivized global marketplace.
keywords: [eli lilly, chemistry, contract research, scientific bounties, crowdsourcing, pharmaceuticals, r&d]
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[Contract research by Eli Lilly](http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/08/25/scientific.bounties.ap/index.html). They put up problems in chemistry. You solve them. You get paid.