Our Partners

We believe that innovation is a team sport. And so do the companies listed below. They have partnered successfully with InnoCentive to push the boundaries of open innovation, crowdsourcing, and prize competitions.

Accenture

Accenture is teaming with InnoCentive to drive business performance through proven open innovation methods, crowdsourced innovation communities, and tools. Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with approximately 211,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$21.6 billion for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2010. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

Booz Allen Hamilton

Booz Allen Hamilton, a world leader in management and technology consulting services, and InnoCentive are joining forces to help commercial and government organizations harness the power of prize-based Challenges, open innovation, and crowdsourcing to solve critical mission issues faster and more effectively. This alliance provides clients with integrated, full-service open innovation and Challenge offerings including the Booz Allen Hamilton-InnoCentive Open Innovation Diagnostic Program. This Program combines InnoCentive’s unique Challenge Driven Innovation methodology and problem solving platform coupled with Booz Allen Hamilton’s deep technical expertise, implementation, and management capabilities within both government and commercial organizations. Booz Allen Hamilton

Environmental Defense Fund

Environmental Defense Fund, a leading national non-profit pioneer in environmental sustainability, has partnered with InnoCentive to jointly accelerate sustainable innovation in business. This collaboration brings to life the EDF-InnoCentive Eco-Challenge Series, through which organizations can work with EDF on pressing environmental and sustainability problems and deploy InnoCentive’s proven Challenge Driven Innovation methodology and platform to address these problems. Global Challenges such as increased energy efficiency, reduced waste with better packaging, improved methods of sustainable food sourcing, reduction of dependence on toxic chemicals, or development of a more efficient means of freight transport, to name a few, will benefit from the broad and diverse expertise provided by InnoCentive’s global network of over 200,000 problem solvers and by EDF’s network of over 700,000 members.

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GlobalGiving

GlobalGiving, an online marketplace for global philanthropy that enables individuals, corporations and other organizations to find and direct their funds to high-impact, grass-roots projects around the world, is an InnoCentive partner. Through a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, GlobalGiving is able to post Challenges concerning the world's most pressing development problems. The collaboration efficiently connects GlobalGiving's network of project leaders to experts from around the globe who can provide solutions. Learn more about our work with non-profit organizations, from the development of a solar LED light that can illuminate a room to a brick extruder that can help safely make high-quality bricks.

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NASA

NASA partnered with InnoCentive as the sponsor of the NASA Innovation Pavilion. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to participate in the unique challenges facing the space industry. That's why NASA joined forces with InnoCentive. NASA is reaching beyond its employees in an effort to achieve its mission of pioneering the future of space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research. Solutions submitted might not only benefit space exploration, but also the development of commercial products and services in the fields of health and medicine, industry, consumer goods, transportation, public safety, computer technology and environmental resources.

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Nature.com

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is a leading scientific and medical publisher of over 80 titles, including Nature, and a pioneer in their use of Web 2.0 technologies to interact with the global scientific community on their online platform Nature.com. Together, we offer Nature.com readers the opportunity to participate in research and development Challenges through the Nature.com Open Innovation Pavilion. Via this Pavilion, scientists worldwide can realize practical uses of their research and win cash awards – all the while contributing their expertise to significant scientific advances as well as to the solving of large global problems.

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Popular Science

Founded in 1872, Popular Science is the world's largest science and technology magazine, with a circulation of 1.3 million and 7.1 million readers. Through our joint partnership, we will facilitate open innovation and greater collaboration in solving Challenges in technology, science and engineering. Popular Science readers and InnoCentive Solvers will have the opportunity to work on problems in the Popular Science Pavilion, which will be hosted on both InnoCentive.com and the Popular Science web site.

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SAP

SAP has partnered with InnoCentive as the sponsor of the SAP Innovation and Technology Pavilion where SAP, customers, and partners post challenges for the SAP and InnoCentive communities to solve. These Challenges seek to resolve critical SAP-specific problems as well as broader technology and IT-oriented issues facing businesses today. The InnoCentive partnership extends SAP’s commitment to open innovation by adding the diverse InnoCentive Solver network to the SAP ecosystem, where members share knowledge and ideas, solve problems, and collaborate on innovative solutions.

The Economist

The Economist, the prestigious weekly news and international affairs publication, has partnered with InnoCentive to create The Economist-InnoCentive Challenge Program. This program dovetails with a new event series by The Economist under the banner of The Ideas Economy. With the Ideas Economy focusing on topics such as innovation, human potential, and intelligent infrastructure, The Economist seeks to create an ecosystem, through the InnoCentive platform, where good ideas move from concept to implementation. The Challenges jointly developed by The Economist and InnoCentive are open to InnoCentive’s global network of over 200,000 Solvers, The Economist’s millions of readers, and the rest of the world. For The Economist, these Challenges are a natural extension of The Economist’s founding spirit – exploring ideas in the pursuit of human progress.

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The Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation has been an InnoCentive partner since 2006, helping nonprofit organizations develop solutions for their work on behalf of the world's poorest and most vulnerable populations. Interested nonprofit organizations apply through the Rockefeller Foundation to place their organization's Challenges on InnoCentive. The nonprofit itself will choose the proposal that best fits its needs, and a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation will provide the financial award given to the Solver. According to Dr. Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, the partnership gives nonprofit organizations access to some of the world's brightest problem Solvers, enabling researchers and entrepreneurs that address the needs of the developing world to have access to cutting-edge innovation.

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