Cambrian House, a Calgary-based crowdsourcing incubator of sorts, aims to discover and commercialize software concepts by leveraging the wisdom and participation of crowds. With a twist on the true open source model, contributors share in the success of the developed products by earning royalties determined by relative contribution.

They have also launched an idea competition called IdeaWarz. Each month, 16 ideas are selected to compete in the tournament, and each week half the ideas advance and half drop out.