InnoCentive Records Best First Quarter in Company History

Waltham, Mass. – April 18, 2013 – InnoCentive, Inc., the global leader in open innovation, crowdsourcing, and prize competitions, today announced significant milestones achieved in the first quarter of 2013. The company experienced significant growth across a number of dimensions, including customers, regions, industry sectors, and products, and is poised for continued growth and expansion throughout 2013.

InnoCentive and Lumina Foundation Launch Open Innovation Partnership to Increase Postsecondary Degree Attainment in America

TAGS: Crowdsourcing, Not for Profit, Open Innovation, Social Innovation

Waltham, Mass. – March 25, 2013 – InnoCentive, Inc., the global leader in open innovation, crowdsourcing, and prize competitions, today announced a collaboration with Lumina Foundation designed to uncover new ways to catalyze systemic changes in higher education. Working together, the two organizations hope to explore novel approaches so millions of Americans can access and earn high quality college degrees, certificates and credentials.

The Scientific American Open Innovation Pavilion Launches with Innovation Challenges for Science and Technology Enthusiasts

TAGS: Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation

New York, New York – March 4, 2013 – Today marks the launch of the Scientific American Open Innovation Pavilion, jointly hosted on www.innocentive.com/pavilion/scientific-american and www.scientificamerican.com/openinnovation. The online hub to foster scientific collaboration and open innovation is the result of a partnership between InnoCentive, Inc., the global leader in open innovation, crowdsourcing, and prize competitions, and Scientific American, the leading authoritative publication for science in the general media.

Industry Veteran Craig Jones Becomes Executive Chairman of InnoCentive

Waltham, Mass. – February 15, 2013 – InnoCentive, Inc., the global leader in open innovation, crowdsourcing, and prize competitions, today announced that Craig Jones, InnoCentive’s current Chairman of the Board, will become Executive Chairman while Dwayne Spradlin resigns as CEO to head up the Health Data Consortium, a major nonprofit private/public initiative supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and other major players in healthcare.

AARP Foundation and InnoCentive Announce Winners of Two Challenges Aimed at Improving the Lives of Older Americans

TAGS: Crowdsourcing, Not for Profit

Waltham, Mass – February 4, 2013 – InnoCentive, Inc., the global leader in open innovation, crowdsourcing, and prize competitions, and AARP Foundation, AARP’s charitable affiliate, today announced the winners of two Challenges that sought innovative ideas for long-term, sustainable programs aimed at preventing, reducing, or eliminating food insecurity and the number of food deserts, respectively, among adults 50 and older without reliance on food provisions by third-party providers or

InnoCentive and Scientific American Partner to Facilitate Open Innovation

TAGS: Corporation, Crowdsourcing, Government, Open Innovation

Waltham, Mass. – December 12, 2012 – InnoCentive, Inc., the global leader in open innovation, crowdsourcing, and prize competitions, and Scientific American, the leading authoritative publication for science in the general media, today announced a partnership for the Scientific American Open Innovation Pavilion, an online hub where science enthusiasts will be able to help solve global scientific problems.

InnoCentive and Syngenta Host Webinar to Share Examples and Explore Benefits of Open Innovation for Global Enterprises

TAGS: Best Practice, Corporation, Open Innovation

Waltham, Mass. – November 30, 2012 – InnoCentive, Inc., the global leader in open innovation, crowdsourcing, and prize competitions, today announced that it will host a webinar on Tuesday, December 4 with Syngenta, a world-leading agri-business committed to sustainable agriculture.

Prize4Life Announces $50,000 ALS Prediction Prize Winners

TAGS: Crowdsourcing, Not for Profit

Cambridge, Mass – November 13, 2012 - Prize4Life, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to accelerate the discovery of treatments and a cure for ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease), announced today three winners of its $50,000 DREAM-Phil Bowen ALS Prediction Prize4Life Challenge (or ALS Prediction Prize), which was run in collaboration with InnoCentive, Inc., the global leader in open innovation, crowdsourcing and prize competitions, and

BeyondPolio and InnoCentive Announce Winners of Challenge to Help Eradicate Polio Globally

TAGS: Crowdsourcing, Not for Profit

Waltham, Mass – November  13, 2012 – InnoCentive, Inc., the global leader in open innovation, crowdsourcing, and prize competitions, and Beyond Polio, an initiative of the Jonas Salk Legacy Foundation and the investment firm Spencer Trask, today announced the solutions of its first Innovation Challenge which sought to identify ways to reduce the cost and facilitate the use of the inactivated

EMC, EDF and InnoCentive Announce Winners of Eco-Challenge to Improve Tracking of E-Waste

TAGS: Best Practice, Corporation

Waltham, Mass. – September 10, 2012 – InnoCentive, Inc., the pioneer in open innovation, crowdsourcing, and prize competitions, EMC Corporation, and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) today announced the successful conclusion of an Eco-Challenge aimed at finding solutions for tracking shipments of used electronic components and subsystems and ensuring that they are disposed of responsibly.