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Conclusion C rowdsourcing is an ever growing industry. We have seen proof that people want to collaborate and share with each other. The Internet has played an important role in the growth of crowdsourcing in the last few years the shift in dealing with our cognitive surplus has been a major push in that space. People no longer want to use their spare time as consumers but as participants. Therefore they want to use their skills and stretch their minds to add value and creation. Parsons Integrative Studio was given the task of looking at the crowdsourcing industry as it stands today and to forecast where the industry will go in the future. The immense economic shifts of the last 5 years coupled with generational changes and shift towards knowledge working have set the stage to welcome crowdsourcing and creative collaboration into a multitude of sectors. By 2015 it said that crowdsourcing will reach 33.4 billion dollars. This is an ever growing concept and will become an industry standard in the next years. We have already seen big companies such as General Mills Nokia Coca-Cola and Unilever adapt some of the practices into the core of their companies. But the big companies werent the first ones to adopt this new concept. With makerspaces like FirstBuild GrabCad and Local Motors and crowdfunding players like Kickstartr and Indiegogo - using the power of the crowd is now becoming a specialized industry. Each platform provides something specific to their users and community members. Some of them target only skilled workers and engineers while others like Quirky appeal to the invention enthusiasts in all of us. The power of crowdfunding lies in the involvement of the crowd and their engagement within the platform. The more people you can attract to your platform the more collaboration and co-creation will occur. This leads us to the main point of our crowdsourcing research which is that community is everything. Without having a strong community that is participatory and responsive you dont have a crowdsourcing platform. But to maintain a community and to attend to their needs is not easy. Communities are compiled of many different people with many different requirements and wants. Therefore it is important to take each member into account.