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Welcome to InnoCentive! The first step in becoming an InnoCentive Seeker is signing the Master Services Agreement. For new Seekers who would like to post an Ideation or eRFP Challenge, which do not necessitate the transfer of intellectual property, we’ve simplified the agreement and made it available online. Because the contract has been simplified, you can start your Open Innovation initiative with the click of a button, and start seeing success right away. As an added incentive, when you sign the Online Service Agreement, you’ll receive 20% off all new Challenge Purchased in August.

Once InnoCentive receives your agreement, we’ll contact you to help you get started.

Accelerate Your Success
Your passion for innovation is what sets you apart as an industry leader. ONRAMP (Open iNnovation Rapid Adoption Methods and Practices) helps to ensure your vision — from the “big idea” to the final product — is embraced throughout your organization. ONRAMP gives you the tools you need for rapid adoption of an open innovation culture. You’ll inspire open innovation to accelerate R&D, produce breakthrough products, gain competitive advantage and speed time to market.

Our professional services and resources —with unmatched open innovation expertise, proven and repeatable “best practices” methodologies, and world-class practitioners — will help you transform the culture and processes of your organization. Not only will you see improved dividends, you’ll achieve higher ROI on your innovation investments across the board.

ONRAMP provides planning, education, communication and reporting services to help you manage the process, fine-tune your open innovation plan and measure the returns of your new innovation strategy. Realize the promise of open innovation and accelerate success with ONRAMP.

Find out more about InnoCentive’s ONRAMP suite of professional services and technical resources.
Click here to download the pdf.

Plan for Success
Develop a detailed plan for success with ONRAMP’s Planning and Roll-out services. The ONRAMP Best Practices Workshop helps your team understand the powerful benefits of open innovation and why organizational change is needed — and gives them the tools to accomplish it. The workshops culminate in an Account Plan, outlining first-year goals, the business plan and roll-out strategy.

Educate to Drive Transformation
Accelerate open innovation success with ONRAMP’s Training and Education services.
The Product and Process Training Session prepares you to successfully submit Challenge ideas and define milestones so you can harness the full power of InnoCentive. The Challenge Formulation workshop helps your team define their challenges using established best practices and develop a framework for one-to-one development of future Challenges.

Communicate Vision and Leadership
Share your innovation successes and promote organization-wide buy-in using ONRAMP’s internal communication tools. These tools help leaders and managers share their vision, build support for the new innovation approach and encourage adoption. Our innovative Seeker Portal allows you to view and securely transfer Challenges, Solver submissions and evaluations— and communicate with InnoCentive.

Stay in Touch, Maintain Control
Keep your finger on the pulse with ONRAMP’s reporting features. Our monthly electronic Scorecard details all of your organization’s Challenge and Solver activity, and provides statistics to monitor the process and measure effectiveness. ONRAMP’s Quarterly Business Review (QBR) provides the opportunity for dialog with other executives, focused on examining ROI, assessing lessons learned and offering recommendations for further action.

Please Note:
You are now leaving the InnoCentive website. When you click on the link below you will be directed to a Google Groups forum where you can further discuss this Challenge. This forum is open to the public. You may have to set up a free Google account to participate.

Please note that you are still bound by the Solver agreement, and may not discuss details of any other Challenges in this public forum.

Click here to discuss Challenge 6409250 – Is Open-Ended Evolutionary Innovation in a Quarantined System Possible?

1. We will email you a unique referral URL that identifies you as a referring Solver. This URL is associated with your Solver profile, so you may not give the URL to others to forward on your behalf.
2. Please forward your referral URL to individuals who you believe would be interested in becoming Solvers, and who are not currently enrolled as a Solver.
3. We will evaluate whether a referral is a Qualified Solver based on the InnoCentive Site terms.We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to determine whether a referred Solver is qualified as a referral.
4. We reserve the right to terminate or change the Refer-a-Friend program at any time, without notification.
5. If a referred Solver already has a Solver account, and registers again using your referral URL, you will not be eligible for a referral bonus if that Solver submits a qualified winning solution.
6. Do not spam
7. We must obtain tax information from Referrers who are US citizens or residents, and from Referrers who are not US citizens or residents, but whose businesses are taxable in the US. If you believe you are not required to pay taxes, you must provide satisfactory proof to us that we do not need to collect tax information. In order to be able to process a referral bonus, you will need to provide tax status information to us.
8. Be sure that you have completed all of your Solver profile contact form, and keep it up-to-date to ensure that we have current information. Without accurate contact information we will not be able to deliver referral payments. To update your Solver profile, login to the InnoCentive site and in “My Account” choose the “My Account Information” tab.
9. You will earn a referral bonus for any referred Solver who submits a winning solution, if that Solver and the award amount meet the following criteria:
   • The Challenge award amount received by the referred Solver is more than $2500.
   • Challenge award amounts from $2501 - 14,999 receive a bonus of $500.
   • Challenge award amounts of $15,000 or higher receive a bonus of $1500
   • Only the first awarded Challenge over $2501 per referred Solver results in a referral bonus.
   • The referred Solver’s winning solution must be submitted within two years of registering as an InnoCentive Solver.

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2008 InnoCentive Video Challenge Competition!

The first annual InnoCentive Video Challenge Competition was launched on November 29, 2007. For the Challenge, we asked Solvers to develop 30-90 second video commercials to promote InnoCentive and the benefits of joining the InnoCentive Solver community. The response was tremendous. Over 450 Solvers worked on this Challenge!

Watch the winning videos on our YouTube Playlist.

Details of the Video Challenge

Solvers were asked to communicate, in a persuasive and fun way, the benefits of being an active InnoCentive Solver. The list of recommended themes included, but was not limited to, the following:

• The intellectual thrill of solving tough InnoCentive Challenges
• The intellectual pleasure of working on important problems
• The pride of being part of a global community
• The opportunity to help solve some of the most pressing of the world’s problems
• The satisfaction of reaping significant financial rewards
• The convenience of working your craft on your own terms.

At the end of the submission period, 7 finalists were selected. Among the finalists, we awarded $5,000 prizes to two Solvers:

• Video #4: The Solver video selected by InnoCentive.
• Video #7: The Solver video that received the most votes by the Solver community.

We would like to thank all the Solvers who submitted videos in this competition. The originality, creativity, and diversity of the submissions demonstrated the wide range of talent present in our Solver community.

Liz Moise
InnoCentive Marketing Manager
978.482.3300

press@innocentive.com

Below is a list of our current open positions.

• Innovation Sales Managers
• Community Ambassador
• Lead Java Web Developer

Job Descriptions:

Innovation Sales Managers - Locations: Major Business Centers across the US
Are you looking to change the world? Are you familiar with “The World is Flat” and “Wikinomics”? Do you make your days happen or let them happen? Are you a top sales talent? Can you demonstrate a successful, verifiable track record of quota achievement? Do you have great references in the Global 1000 that will back up your claims? If you answered yes to everything, and you want to join a top performing sales team that is out changing the world, then we want to talk to you.

About the Position(s):

Reporting to an Area Sales Director, you will be responsible for managing and growing established relationships with InnoCentive’s existing Global 1000 Clients. This includes expanding existing relationships, seeking out and extracting ideas for Challenges and driving revenue to accomplish targeted financial objectives. You must be comfortable interacting with Senior Management including CSO, EVP R&D, CEO, etc. and their respective scientific and technical staff across different business functions, providing a high level of client service.

You will need to demonstrate an aptitude for accelerating the sales cycle from initial contact through to successful close, financial modeling of activities, and working closely with Client Services to ensure overall client satisfaction and business growth. An entrepreneurial nature, as well as experience in needs-based consultative selling, are requirements.

Specific responsibilities will include:

• Owning assigned sales territory including quarterly sales quota achievement;
• Working with Area Sales Director to develop, manage and be 100% responsible for the assigned territory plan and related performance objectives;
• Working as part of a highly collaborative and supportive National sales team and work to support the company’s overall objectives;
• Developing and presenting financial models to support client business plans;
• Developing and managing all aspects of client relationship management and business growth;
• Networking throughout existing client organizations, communicating the InnoCentive business model, giving presentations to technical and scientific groups and managing the sales process through successful close;
• Developing and managing overall sales strategy to include presentations, sales materials, value proposition, key messages, contracting etc.;
• Developing and maintaining a database of client contacts and referrals;
• Developing a client strategy for each key client with focus on building relationships with key users of the InnoCentive model to ensure maximum utilization and continued business growth;
• Working closely with other functions in the Company (Client Services, Scientific Operations, Marketing) to achieve individual and company goals;
• Locations: Major Business Centers across the US

To be considered for this position, you must possess:

• Proven experience in defining, developing and closing business opportunities, and maintaining client satisfaction;
• A drive to win and compete, with exceptional business agility to adapt quickly as the Clients’ businesses continue to evolve with increased velocity;
• Minimum 4 years’ sales experience working with mid level executives, scientific or technical staff, utilizing established consultative or strategic selling methodologies;
• A self-starter mentality that can work independently;
• Excellent communications, relationship-building and organizational skills;
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent required;

This is an exceptional opportunity for a top sales professional to join an outstanding Sales team. This is the ground floor of an outstanding opportunity to help build the first global initiative of its kind. We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package. To apply, please submit credentials to: careers@innocentive.com. EOE.

Community Ambassador
The Community Ambassador will be responsible for community content and interactions via InnoCentive’s web site (company to users, users to users, users to company), including:

• Collaborating with Product Management to define and develop the appropriate community model and “rules of engagement” for the online InnoCentive community
• Providing an InnoCentive “voice in the community” through proactive publishing, editing, and engagement
  sourcing and/or developing content of interests to seekers and solvers
• Promoting positive interactions through mechanisms such as blogs and forums
• Recruiting seekers and solvers to contribute content to the site
• Developing and enforcing appropriate editorial policies for user-generated content
• Generating and managing the product of regular newsletters and other community communication
• Actively monitor what the customer is saying in both InnoCentive and external communities, and respond where appropriate
• Gather community input for future products and services to help shape the offerings to the community

Skills or experience:

• Some experience in research, science, problem solving, and/or product development
• Crisp, lucid, modern written communication style
• Experience in editing and publishing in the web context
• Strong listening skills; responsive and personable
• Ideally, some experience with market or exchange-based business models
• Some knowledge of chemistry and/or life sciences valuable but not essential

General characteristics:

• Customer-focused, and experienced in listening to and responding to customers (external and/or internal customers) – responsive to facts
• Ability and desire to excel in a fast-paced environment
• Love working with people and the public
• Responsible, dependable and passionate
• Goal oriented, willing to commit and be held accountable
• Creative problem solver who takes initiative – “forgiveness rather than permission” orientation.
• Team player, willing to work with full transparency
• Motivated by both commercial success and “changing the world”

This is the ground floor of an outstanding opportunity to help build the first global initiative of its kind. We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package. To apply, please submit credentials to: careers@innocentive.com. EOE.

Lead Java Web Developer
The Lead Java Web Developer will be responsible for architecture, software design, and implementation of major portions of our web site, including:

• collaboration with product management on requirements, use case development, and user interface design
• design and coding of RIA capabilities, including javascript, AJAX and FLEX
• architecture, design and coding of server-side logic in Java and Groovy, using the Grails/Spring/Hibernate frameworks
• development and execution of unit and system test, and collaboration with QA to ensure high quality of delivered code

Skills required:

• strong software architecture and design sensibility with emphasis on clarity and usability
• rapid prototyping and iteration
• strong customer focus
• some experience with agile development methodologies such as Scrum strongly preferred
• experience delivering public-facing, scalable web applications built on open source technologies
• comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment
• required skills: Java, HTML, XML, Linux, SQL/databases, unit/regression testing
• desired skills: Spring, Hibernate, Groovy/Grails, familiarity with Agile/Scrum project practices
• experience with these products helpful: MySQL database, IntelliJ, Subversion source control, Ant, Apache, Tomcat

This is the ground floor of an outstanding opportunity to help build the first global initiative of its kind. We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package. To apply, please submit credentials to: careers@innocentive.com. EOE.

What is a an InnoCentive Seeker™?

Seekers are progressive, innovation-driven companies and not-for-profit organizations that have tough R&D problems that need solutions. Seekers post these problems to the InnoCentive Open Innovation Marketplace™ as InnoCentive Challenges™. These solution seeking organizations provide significant financial awards, typically between $10,000 to $100,000, for what they determine is the best solution.

What is a Solver™?

This is what we call the person or organization who registers with us to solve InnoCentive Challenges. To review Challenges and submit solutions, Solvers must register with InnoCentive. Registration is easy and free, and all Solver’s must sign an online Solver Agreement. If their solution is selected to receive the award, the winning Solver needs to show they are capable of transferring ownership of the solution.

What is an InnoCentive Challenge™?

An InnoCentive Challenge is a unique problem posted by Seekers - companies and not-for-profit organizations – to the Open Innovation Marketplace. The Seeker is looking for the best solution for their problem and the Challenge can be large or small, short-term or long-term. If a solution is selected as “best” by the Seeker, the Solver receives a financial award, which varies per Challenge. Solvers may also qualify for partial awards.

Does InnoCentive offer more than one type of Challenge?

InnoCentive offers 4 Challenge types:

• Ideation
• Theoretical
• RTP
• eRFP

What is an InnoCentive Ideation Challenge™?

An Ideation Challenge is broad, non-detailed question to obtain access to new ideas. Think of an Ideation Challenge as a brainstorming session, market survey or simple contest for new ideas.

In an Ideation Challenge, a Solver may:

• submit ideas of their own
• submit third party information they have the right to and further the right to convey those rights to use and develop derivative works to seeker
• submit information considered in the public domain without any limitations on use

Solvers should not reveal any confidential information in their submissions. Often the Ideation Challenge will be followed by one or more of the other three challenge types to further develop the ideas and gain IP protection when the concept has been well-defined. Ideation challenge submissions (if written) must be limited to 500 words or less.

Note: Seekers obtain a non-exclusive, perpetual license to use ANY of the submissions that are submitted by solvers.

What is an InnoCentive Theoretical Challenge™?

A Theoretical Challenge has detailed solution requirements that Solvers must follow in their responses. In most cases, when a solution is chosen and an award is given, the intellectual property (IP) rights are transferred from the Solver to the Seeker; however, some Seekers may prefer to obtain a non-exclusive perpetual license when providing awards. The IP requirements are spelled out in the challenge statement. A Seeker that requires specific IP rights or licensing, and also needs detailed solution submissions, should choose a Theoretical over an Ideation Challenge.

What is an InnoCentive RTP Challenge?

Like a Theoretical Challenge, an RTP Challenge is highly detailed. However, an RTP goes one step further than a Theoretical Challenge, asking the Solver to submit a validated solution in the form of either original data or a physical sample. IP is always transferred in an RTP Challenge.

What is an eRFP?

eRFPs allow Seekers to submit “Requests for Proposals” to the InnoCentive Solver community. This global community includes organizations and individuals such as contract research organizations, scientists, university researchers and technology companies. After a Solver submits an eRFP response, the Seeker evaluates the responses and determines which Solver(s) to contact and begin further business discussions. With eRFPs, the Solver should NOT provide any confidential information in the eRFP response.

What is the deadline?

The Seeker establishes a deadline or cut-off date for receiving proposed solutions. It is important that you submit your solution proposal as soon a possible, even though it may be before the deadline. A submission received earlier is likely to be preferred when choosing between solutions of similar quality. The Seeker reserves the right to award a Challenge before the deadline, if they receive a solution proposal they want to accept. InnoCentive recommends that you submit your solution proposals as soon as they are complete and not wait until the deadline date.

What is a project room?

InnoCentive has created a secure space online called a “Project Room” for Solvers to view the details and requirements of a challenge and submit solution proposal(s). You must be a registered Solver and accept the Solver Agreement to view all the details of a challenge and submit a solution proposal. The online project room is where you will submit your final solution proposal(s). All proposal submissions should be done via the project room. You may send messages to InnoCentive using the Messages link in the project room regarding questions or inquiries on a Challenge.

Does InnoCentive post challenges in disciplines other than Chemistry and Life Sciences?

Yes! Initially we started in chemistry and life sciences and we have expanded into other disciplines including physical science, engineering and design, computer science, mathematics, and business and entrepreneurship. InnoCentive will regularly introduce new, exciting challenges in these multi-disciplinary areas. You can always be sure that InnoCentive will feature meaningful and challenging problems for creative minds looking to make an impact.

I am a potential Seeker. How do I learn more about InnoCentive and post our problems on the website?

Please call InnoCentive at 978-482-3300 or 1-866-812-7339 and ask for Sales. For general information on how InnoCentive works with Solution Seekers please visit our Seeker page.

How do I know these problems and awards are legitimate?

InnoCentive only posts problems and awards from highly reputable Seeker companies and not-for-profit organizations, such as Rockefeller Foundation. InnoCentive is currently working with many world-class, innovation-driven corporations to add new and exciting Challenges to the InnoCentive site on a regular basis. To see previously awarded InnoCentive Challenges please visit our Awarded Challenges.

Who determines the best solution?

The Seeker company determines which solution is best, InnoCentive is not involved in the solution selection process. The reason is simple. The Seeker understands the problem, describes the problem and establishes the criteria/requirements for a solution. Therefore, the Seeker is best suited to judge the “best” solution. InnoCentive screens each solution proposal to ensure that you have satisfied the submission criteria. If your solution proposal is unsatisfactory, you will receive an email from InnoCentive asking you to try again and outline the areas of your proposal that did not meet the solution criteria.

How is my intellectual property protected?

We know how important this is to you and InnoCentive has taken precautions to help protect both Seekers and Solvers. First, only InnoCentive and the Seeker that posted the problem can see any proposed solutions. Second, we require both the Seeker and the Solver to sign an agreement protecting confidential information.

How do I transfer my intellectual property rights in the solution?

If your solution is selected as “best” by the Seeker, prior to receiving a financial award you must transfer your intellectual property rights in the solution. In order to transfer your intellectual property rights you will have to sign a document stating that you are the owner of the intellectual property and have the ability to transfer these rights. If you are employed, your employer will have to sign an agreement to transfer ownership of intellectual property. In our experience, this is something that can be resolved to everyone’s benefit.

I’m employed by a company that does work in the area of an InnoCentive Challenge. Can I work on this challenge?

Yes. If you are working on an InnoCentive Challenge in connection with your employment, you must ensure that your employer is capable of signing an agreement to transfer intellectual property rights. Be aware of any restrictions in your employment agreement (if you have one with your employer). If you use your employer’s facilities to create your submission proposal, and if your solution is selected as “the best,” you must have your employer sign an agreement to transfer ownership of intellection property.

I work at a university. Can I offer solutions to InnoCentive Challenges?

Some universities have policies governing the use of their facilities and the ownership of any intellectual property created while using their facilities. You should become familiar with any such policy that may affect your work if you are a student, faculty or staff member. Remember that you must be able to transfer all rights in your work if a Seeker accepts your solution and pays you the award.

What’s in it for InnoCentive?

InnoCentive has established a community of creative problem solvers who want to make an impact. The Seekers get their problems posted to our global community and then pay for the solutions to problems that are judged “the best.” The solution Seeker pays InnoCentive for this service. It is free for Solvers. In addition to empowering people everywhere to unleash their creativity, providing an open innovation resource for progressive R&D based companies, we are also helping non-profits bring breakthrough innovation to communities around the world.

Where did InnoCentive come from, anyway?

InnoCentive began as a start-up incubated through the e.Lilly division of Eli Lilly and Company, a leading innovation-driven pharmaceutical corporation. Lilly was the first Seeker at InnoCentive providing leadership on the initial InnoCentive problems and awards. InnoCentive is now incorporated as an independent company, and partners with various Seekers in many industries to revolutionize the way R&D is done.

Forget your username or password?

Please go to: http://www.innocentive.com/forgotpassword

InnoCentive secures Solver accounts from unauthorized use. If you cannot answer your hint question correctly, send an email to innohelp@innocentive.com and we will assist you in resetting your account.

To reset your password, Please go to: http://www.innocentive.com/forgotpassword. You must enter your username and email address in the fields provided and press the submit button. You will recieve an email with instructions to reset your password.

For your username: Please go to: http://www.innocentive.com/forgotpassword. Enter you email mail address in the field provided and press the submit button. You will receive an email with your username(s).

How do I print a Challenge?

Select the “View Printable Version” link to print a copy of a Challenge. If there is no link available, simply click the print button in your browser to print the page.

How do I submit a solution?

• Go to http://www.innocentive.com.
• Choose My InnoCentive from the menu. Log in using your user name and password.
• Select the InnoCentive Challenge you want to submit a solution proposal for to open your online project room*.
• Scroll down the challenge - on the bottom left notice “Project Files” and the browse and upload buttons.
• Use browse to locate your solution proposal on your computer.
• Use the upload button to upload your proposal for submission to InnoCentive.

*Note: You must be a registered Solver and accept the Solver Agreement to submit a solution proposal. If you need assistance with solution submissions, please email us at click here.

May I submit more than one solution?

Absolutely! As you know, there can be multiple solutions to any problem. The key with InnoCentive is to help the Seeker find the “best” one. So if you have more than one solution proposal, we encourage you to submit them all.

How much do I get paid for submitting a solution?

Only a solution deemed “best” by the Seeker will receive a financial award. The Seeker pays the financial award as outlined in the challenge.

How much time after I submit a solution will it take to receive notification?

It depends. The Challenge usually has a deadline for solution submission. The Seeker typically validates the proposed solution. If a solution to the challenge is received, the award is typically paid 2-6 months after the deadline date, and some challenges may have longer or shorter time frames for paying the award. Because it takes time to review and validate solution proposals, you may opt to receive email notification of the status of the InnoCentive Challenge. This notification is sent when the challenge is closed, awarded or withdrawn. If no solution is found, the Seeker may choose to modify the challenge criteria and post the problem again. As a registered user you may opt to receive an email notification when new challenges are posted to the site that matches your interests.

How do I submit a solution?

• Go to http://www.innocentive.com
• Choose My InnoCentive from the menu. Log in using your user name and password.
• Select the InnoCentive Challenge you want to submit a solution proposal for to open your online project room*.
• Select the “Submit a Solution” button.
• Use “Browse” to locate your solution proposal on your computer
• Use the “Add” button to place your solution proposal in your project room for the Challenge
• Press the “Send to InnoCentive” button to submit your solution proposal(s).

*Note: You must be a registered Solver and accept the Solver Agreement to submit a solution proposal. If you need assistance with solution submissions, please email us here.

Why do I need to provide my full name and contact information before I can view Challenge Details?

When you view Challenge Details, you will be viewing confidential information posted by InnoCentive Seekers. In order to ensure security for both the Solver and Seeker, we need your legal name and contact information.

Upcoming Events

Are you attending any of these events? Want to see InnoCentive in person? Come to our booth or presentation at any of these events to see us in action.

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PDMA 2008 Annual International Conference
September 15-17, 2008 - Orlando, FL
Disney’s Contemporary Resort

Speaker:
Tom Venable, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, InnoCentive

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Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit
September 17–19, 2008 - Los Angeles, CA
Hyatt Regency Century Plaza

Panel Session:
Open Innovation Networks Panel: Harnessing the Power ofIdea Marketplaces
Thursday, September 18 | 2:00-3:15 PM

Panelist:
Dwayne Spradlin, President and CEO, InnoCentive

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IIR 14th Annual Innovation Immersion Conference
October 20-22 - Phoenix, AZ
Wigwam Resort & Spa

Speaker:
Tom Venable, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, InnoCentive

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CoDev 2009
January 26-29, 2009 - Scottsdale, AZ

Speaker:
Dwayne Spradlin, President and CEO, InnoCentive

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Previous Events

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AIB 2008 Annual Meeting
June 30- July 3, 2008 - Milan, Italy

Panel Session:
Innovation and Globalization: Looking Outward and Looking Inward

Panelists:
Tom Venable, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, InnoCentive
Alexander Orlando, Director of Sales, InnoCentive Inc.

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IFT Annual Meeting and Food Expo
June 28-July 1, 2008 - New Orleans, LA
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center

Panel Session:
Open innovation: The InnoCentive model
Monday, June 30 | 4:25-4:45 PM
Jon Fredrickson, Director, Innovation Expansion, InnoCentive, Inc

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Sensors Expo and Conference
June 9-11 - Rosemont IL
Donald E. Stephens Convention Center

Keynote Panel:
Innovation at a Crossroads
Wednesday, June 11 | 9:00-10:00am
Jon Fredrickson, Director, Innovation Expansion, InnoCentive, Inc

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Frost & Sullivan - Innovations in New Product Development and Marketing
June 8-11, 2008 - San Diego, CA
Loews Coronado Bay Resort

Session:
Changing the Innovation Model, Changing the Innovation Culture
Wednesday, June 11 | 10:00-11:00am
Tom Venable, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, InnoCentive

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IT Midia Brazil
June 5-6, 2008 - Sao Paulo, Brazil

Keynote Session:
The Collaborative Economy
Thursday, June 5 | 9:15-10:45am
Dwayne Spradlin, President and CEO, InnoCentive

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CIMIT Forum
June 3, 2008 - Boston, MA
MGH Simches Research Center

Panel Discussion:
Information Arbitrage in Medicine
Tuesday, June 3 | 4:00-6:00pm
Bruce Ackman, Director of Business Development, InnoCentive

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Front End of Innovation
May 19-21, 2008 - Boston, MA
Boston World Trade Center and Seaport Hotel
Booth #28

Session:
The Answer IS in Left Field
Wednesday, May 21 | 3:15-4:00pm
Tom Venable, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, InnoCentive

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iCitizen Interactive Resource Client Symposium
May 20-21, 2008 - Columbus, Ohio

Session:
The Allure of Open Innovation
Tuesday, May 20 | 4:30-5:00pm
Tom Venable, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, InnoCentive

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San Diego Software Industry Council
May 17 - San Diego, CA

Panel Discussion:
Innovation Strategies: Relationships, Monetization, and Distribution
Chuck Davis, Regional Director, Open Innovation Solutions, InnoCentive

European Patent Forum
May 5-6, 2008 - Ljubljana, Slovenia

Session:
Open innovation
Alpheus Bingham, President and Chief Executive Officer, InnoCentive

Product Development Impact
April 7-9, 2008 - Scottsdale, AZ

Session:
Co-Development/Open Innovation Clinic—Getting Started, Getting Results
Tom Venable, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, InnoCentive

CoDev 2008
January 21-23, 2008 - Scottsdale, AZ

		WNPR: Where We Live Crowdsourcing with Jeff Howe 08/26/08
		ABC News Now Get Paid to Solve Company’s Problems 08/11/08
		Business Week Podcast: How InnoCentive is still Innovative 07/02/08
		Forrester The Real Business Model for Web 2.0: Corporate Clients 06/09/08
		The Boston Globe InnoCentive is putting out the call on the Net for eco-friendly answers 05/27/08
		InformationWeek Innovation Marketplace Helps People With Good Ideas Find Problems 04/26/2008
		Science Magazine Science by the Masses 03/31/08
		Time Magazine How Many People Does It Take To Make a New Lightbulb? 03/10/08
		Freakonomics Solve a Company’s Problems, Win Cash 02/29/08

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Linux Insider
Prize Power: How Competition Inspires Tech Innovation 08/06/08

Il Sole 24 Ore
Si chiama Spradlin e risolve problemi 07/31/08

Oren Harari
What Do Amazon and Zipcar Have in Common? 06/27/08

News Digital Media (Australia)
Customers as business innovators 06/16/08

Condé Nast
Charity Prize Fight 06/12/08

Raman Coke
iCitizen Recap 05/21/08

Advergirl
iCitizen: Call to Open Your Brand 05/20/08

CleanTechGreenTech
Foundation Issues Challenge on InnoCentive for Radically Improved and Energy-Efficient Air Conditioning 05/20/08

Philanthropy 2173
More improvements for social idea markets 05/16/08

ClickAdvisor
InnoCentive $6.5m more funding/Cambrian to the deadpool 05/13/08

Xconomy - GreenTechMedia
Elixir Pulls IPO, Mascoma Runs with Marathon, InnoCentive Gets an Incentive 05/12/08

Philanthropy 2173
Improving Marketplaces for Social Ideas 05/12/08

EE Times
Engineering creativity ’swarms’ the heart of sensors confab 05/12/08

Mass High Tech
InnoCentive intakes $6.5 M in second round of funding 05/07/08

VentureBeat
Dean’s audio post: interview with InnoCentive’s Dwayne Spradlin 05/07/08

Xconomy
InnoCentive Raises $6.5 Million for Innovation Network: “Ready for Prime Time,” says CEO in Our Q&A 05/07/08

CondeNast Tech Observer
X-Prize, Meat Edition 04/25/08

01Net
Avec le « crowdsourcing », vous êtes tous des innovateurs 04/18/08

Venture Beat
Hope for the Little Guys at the Intellectual Property Symposium 04/18/08

Fast Company
The Power of the Prize 04/17/08 (May 2008 issue)

Marketing Week
In search of an honest opinion 04/03/08

One Degree
Crowdsourcing 101: Episode 4 - Concluding Thoughts 03/19/08

Spicy IP
InnoCentive: Open Innovation Marketplace 03/19/08

Crowdsourcing: Jeff Howe
Chapter 3: From So Simple a Beginning 03/13/08

Macleans
Eyes on the Prize 03/06/08

NYTimes
Putting Innovation in the Hands of the Crowd 03/03/08

Stephen Shapiro: Changing the Rules of Innovation and Creativity
A Fun Innovation Diagnostic 03/03/08

Business Innovation Factory
Rewriting the Rules in R&D Doesn’t Mean Starting From Scratch 02/28/08

(un)spun.dk
Outside-In Innovation 02/26/08

Jim Ferry Blog
Online Idea Generation and Crowdsourcing 02/25/08

Jurg Benders
Crowdsourcing in Environmental Protection 02/24/08

InformationWeek
Down To Business: Innovation: Get Off The Stump And Get On With It 02/23/08

The Frontal Cortex
InnoCentive 02/20/08

MindMob
Kluster: Crowdsourcing Design 02/20/08

Media Post
InnoCentive Calling all Video Makers 02/20/08

Tech Crunch
First Look: Kluster’s Market Approach to Crowd Sourcing 02/18/08

Information Week
Report from India: Outsourcing For Innovation 02/14/08

Without Thought
Problem Playground 02/11/08

unitedBIT
Businesses Find New Ways to Make Money Online 2/10/08

The Webquarters
Unleashing Innovation, the Unplugged Way 2/08/08

Newzy France
Vos Idees valent de l’or 02/07/08

PCR Project
Prevention, Conflict Analysis, and Reconstruction 01/31/08

London Times
Learn to love social networking sites 01/27/08

Financial Times
Cash for answers 01/25/08

NPR
Bringing Light to Africa’s Dark Nights 01/15/08

About
Are You an Innovator? 01/09/08

Info World
Mob wisdom means business 12/10/07

Computerworld Singapore
Should your company ‘crowdsource’ its next project? 12/07/07

Opensource Association
Tapping Your Global Brain - An Interview with Author Satish Nambisan 11/30/07

New York Times
Win Fabulous Prizes, all in the name of Innovation 11/12/07

Newsweek
Bringing Flashlights to Africa 11/12/07

Business Wire
Prize4Life Celebrates One Year Anniversary of $1 Million ALS Biomarker Challenge 11/6/07

Crowdsourcing Directory
Ideagoras: Marketplaces for ideas 11/2/07

Innovation
Advantages of Open Innovation 10/30/07

Les Echos
Les entreprises veulent s’appuyer sur les internautes pour innover 10/19/07

Tech Biz Watch
Crowdsourcing: Milk the Mases for Inspiration 10/19/07

BBC Radio 4
Eureka Democracy -Peter Day considers if innovation is best left to companies 10/11/07

London Times
How to tap in to online riches 10/6/07

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Problem Solving via Innovation 9/28/07

Small Planet Partners
How Might an Unknown Einstein Earn Attention Today? 9/24/07

CIO
Open Your Doors to Innovation 9/10/07

NPR
Businesses Harness Power of the Crowd 07/28/07

Wired
Using Crowd Power for R&D 7/13/07

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Upcoming Events

Are you attending any of these events? Want to see InnoCentive in person? Come to our booth or presentation at any of these events to see us in action.

	Innovation Brokering in Federal Government Markets - Research & Acquisition Conference August 20, 2008 9:00 am – 4:00 pmMITRE Corporation, Auditorium 1S100, Bedford, MA Session: InnoCentive - Example Innovation Brokering Threads Alexander Orlando, Director Innovation Public Sectors, InnoCentive 1:30 pm – 2:15 pm
	PDMA 2008 Annual International Conference September 15-17, 2008 - Orlando, FL Disney’s Contemporary Resort Speaker: Tom Venable, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, InnoCentive
	Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit September 17–19, 2008 - Los Angeles, CA Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Panel Session: Open Innovation Networks Panel: Harnessing the Power ofIdea Marketplaces Thursday, September 18 | 2:00-3:15 PM Panelist: Dwayne Spradlin, President and CEO, InnoCentive
	IIR 14th Annual Innovation Immersion Conference October 20-22 - Phoenix, AZ Wigwam Resort & Spa Speaker: Tom Venable, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, InnoCentive
	CoDev 2009 January 26-29, 2009 - Scottsdale, AZ Speaker: Dwayne Spradlin, President and CEO, InnoCentive

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Previous Events

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AIB 2008 Annual Meeting
June 30- July 3, 2008 - Milan, Italy

Panel Session:
Innovation and Globalization: Looking Outward and Looking Inward

Panelists:
Tom Venable, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, InnoCentive
Alexander Orlando, Director of Sales, InnoCentive Inc.

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IFT Annual Meeting and Food Expo
June 28-July 1, 2008 - New Orleans, LA
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center

Panel Session:
Open innovation: The InnoCentive model
Monday, June 30 | 4:25-4:45 PM
Jon Fredrickson, Director, Innovation Expansion, InnoCentive, Inc

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Sensors Expo and Conference
June 9-11 - Rosemont IL
Donald E. Stephens Convention Center

Keynote Panel:
Innovation at a Crossroads
Wednesday, June 11 | 9:00-10:00am
Jon Fredrickson, Director, Innovation Expansion, InnoCentive, Inc

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Frost & Sullivan - Innovations in New Product Development and Marketing
June 8-11, 2008 - San Diego, CA
Loews Coronado Bay Resort

Session:
Changing the Innovation Model, Changing the Innovation Culture
Wednesday, June 11 | 10:00-11:00am
Tom Venable, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, InnoCentive

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IT Midia Brazil
June 5-6, 2008 - Sao Paulo, Brazil

Keynote Session:
The Collaborative Economy
Thursday, June 5 | 9:15-10:45am
Dwayne Spradlin, President and CEO, InnoCentive

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CIMIT Forum
June 3, 2008 - Boston, MA
MGH Simches Research Center

Panel Discussion:
Information Arbitrage in Medicine
Tuesday, June 3 | 4:00-6:00pm
Bruce Ackman, Director of Business Development, InnoCentive

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Front End of Innovation
May 19-21, 2008 - Boston, MA
Boston World Trade Center and Seaport Hotel
Booth #28

Session:
The Answer IS in Left Field
Wednesday, May 21 | 3:15-4:00pm
Tom Venable, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, InnoCentive

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iCitizen Interactive Resource Client Symposium
May 20-21, 2008 - Columbus, Ohio

Session:
The Allure of Open Innovation
Tuesday, May 20 | 4:30-5:00pm
Tom Venable, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, InnoCentive

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San Diego Software Industry Council
May 17 - San Diego, CA

Panel Discussion:
Innovation Strategies: Relationships, Monetization, and Distribution
Chuck Davis, Regional Director, Open Innovation Solutions, InnoCentive

European Patent Forum
May 5-6, 2008 - Ljubljana, Slovenia

Session:
Open innovation
Alpheus Bingham, President and Chief Executive Officer, InnoCentive

Product Development Impact
April 7-9, 2008 - Scottsdale, AZ

Session:
Co-Development/Open Innovation Clinic—Getting Started, Getting Results
Tom Venable, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, InnoCentive

CoDev 2008
January 21-23, 2008 - Scottsdale, AZ

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