InnoCentive

InnoCentive has helped hundreds of companies, public sector agencies, and nonprofits find solutions to their pressing problems. Below is a sampling of important Challenges that have been solved.

  1. Prize4Life Awards $1 Million Prize for Major Milestone in ALS Research
  2. Oil Industry Outsider Solves Oil Spill Recovery Challenge
  3. Solver Lights Up African Villages
  4. TB Alliance Works to Eradicate One of the World’s Deadliest Diseases

Since 2001, InnoCentive has been making a profound impact on the world, one organization and one Challenge at a time. Take a look at some of our numbers.

  • Total Registered Solvers: 355,000+ from nearly 200 countries
  • Total Solver Reach: 13+ million through our strategic partners (e.g., Nature Publishing Group, Scientific American)
  • Total Challenges Posted: 2,000+ External Challenges & thousands of Internal Challenges (employee-facing)
  • Project Rooms Opened to Date: 500,000+
  • Total Solution Submissions: 40,000+
  • Total Awards Given: 1,500+
  • Total Award Dollars Posted: $40+ million
  • Range of awards: $5,000 to $1+ million based on the complexity of the problem and nature of the Challenge
    Premium Challenge Success Rate: 85%

They crowd-source innovation solutions from the world’s smartest people who compete to provide ideas and solutions to important business, social, policy, scientific, and technical challenges. Their global network of millions of problem solvers, proven challenge methodology, and cloud-based innovation management platform combine to help clients transform their economics of innovation through rapid solution delivery and the development of sustainable open innovation programs. For more than a decade, leading organizations such as AARP Foundation, Air Force Research Labs, Booz Allen Hamilton, Cleveland Clinic, Eli Lilly & Company, EMC Corporation, NASA, Nature Publishing Group, Procter & Gamble, Scientific American, Syngenta, The Economist, Thomson Reuters, and several government agencies in the U.S. and Europe have partnered with InnoCentive to rapidly generate innovative new ideas and solve problems faster, more cost effectively, and with less risk than ever before.

Click here for InnoCentive Challenge Bulletin.