Open Innovation & Crowdsourcing Research Resources

A wide collection of white papers, webinar replays, case studies, Challenge solution stories, and more are provided on this page. Content is sorted by publishing date.  

Webinar Replay: Avoiding the Open Innovation Cliff

January 30, 2013
TAGS: Best Practice, Corporation, Making the Business Case, Open Innovation

Industry thought-leader Reuben Oder, formerly P&G's Connect+Develop Community of Experts Leader, shares his expertise to help viewers drive adoption of their Open Innovation (OI) programs, sustain momentum over the long-term, and accelerate their pace of innovation.

Article: HBR Article on Problem Solving & Innovation

September 28, 2012
TAGS: Best Practice, Crowdsourcing, Innovation, Making the Business Case, Open Innovation

In September 2012, Harvard Business Review published a thought-provoking article by InnoCentive's very own Dwayne Spradlin. In this article, Dwayne makes the argument that most firms aren't solving the right problems, or even asking the right questions, which undermines their innovation efforts.

Gartner Report: InnoCentive Positions Itself as a Challenge Marketplace

June 27, 2012
TAGS: Best Practice, Crowdsourcing, Making the Business Case, Open Innovation

Case study of InnoCentive conducted by IT research firm Gartner. InnoCentive's general manager of EMEA, Simon Schneider, is interviewed in the report.

White Paper: Challenges, Prize Programs, and the Opportunity for Government

May 2, 2012
TAGS: Government, Making the Business Case

How can the public sector and government get the best from running challenges and prize competitions? As we witness the resurgence of governments' use of these innovative tools, this white paper explores both the pitfalls and opportunities associated with running challenge programs in government.

White Paper: The 2012 State of Global Open Innovation

March 22, 2012
TAGS: Best Practice, Making the Business Case, Open Innovation, ROI

Based on a global survey of 229 open innovation (OI) decision makers conducted by Forrester Research and sponsored by InnoCentive, this white paper provides an in-depth look into the OI landscape by diving into the research findings, providing detailed analysis, and offering recommended courses of action.

Webinar Replay: Forrester Research on The 2012 State of Global Open Innovation

February 28, 2012
TAGS: Best Practice, Making the Business Case, Open Innovation, ROI

In late 2011, Forrester Research conducted a global survey of 229 innovation practitioners across a variety of industries. The research was augmented with more than a dozen in-depth interviews with senior executive leaders in Global 2,000 firms. This webinar, sponsored by InnoCentive and featuring Forrester analyst Chris Andrews, highlights results from the study.

Webinar Replay: Architecting a Prize-based Grand Challenge Program

June 21, 2011
TAGS: Best Practice, Making the Business Case

InnoCentive's Gabriel Eichler and Dr. Melanie Leitner, Chief Scientific Officer of Prize4Life, discuss Grand Challenges, which are important problems whose solutions have high value and far-reaching benefits to society and humanity.

Webinar Replay: The Open Innovation Marketplace: Creating Value In The Challenge Driven Enterprise

May 12, 2011
TAGS: Best Practice, Making the Business Case, Open Innovation

In their new book, co-authors Alph Bingham and Dwayne Spradlin introduce groundbreaking strategies and models for leveraging the world’s best innovation sources to drive far more value from new products, services, and business models.

White Paper: Challenging the Public To Do Good

April 15, 2011
TAGS: Best Practice, Innovation, Making the Business Case, Not for Profit

This white paper explores how InnoCentive's Challenge Driven Innovation methodology and tools can make a tremendous impact on nonprofit organizations' ability to solve Challenges that matter most for the public good, assist in fundraising efforts, optimize scarce resources, and harness the same proven innovation methods that have been available to commercial organizations for years. Several case studies are highlighted in the report.

White Paper: Out-Innovating the Competition Through Challenge Driven Innovation

March 15, 2011
TAGS: Best Practice, Crowdsourcing, Making the Business Case, Open Innovation

Our research with clients reveals that most organizations aren't starved for ideas. Rather, they struggle to implement a systematic method and process for defining and solving their key problems and challenges. This white paper answers the question: what methods are currently available to help organizations accelerate innovation by expanding their current capabilities to solve key challenges? The answer is a proven innovation management framework called Challenge Driven Innovation, which accelerates traditional innovation outcomes by leveraging open innovation principles and the power of crowdsourcing.

Webinar Replay: Improving the Management and Measurement of Innovation

April 28, 2010
TAGS: Best Practice, Innovation, Making the Business Case

Chris Andrews of research analyst firm Forrester discusses not only why innovation is essential to the health of your organization, but also how to measure your innovation efforts based on your objectives, why the management and measurement of innovation is still so elusive, and what innovation means today.

Case Study: Roche Experience with Open Innovation

June 1, 2009
TAGS: Best Practice, Corporation, Crowdsourcing, Making the Business Case, Open Innovation

See how Roche Diagnostics took an experimental approach to look at smarter ways of working that would help them utilize their employee’s knowledgebase more effectively. They challenged two different networks of scientists to tackle the same problem – one, an internal R&D community (ie employees of Roche Diagnostics), and the other, an external network of scientists, the global network of InnoCentive Solvers.

Case Study: The Total Economic Impact™ of InnoCentive Challenges

May 1, 2009
TAGS: Best Practice, Corporation, Crowdsourcing, Innovation, Making the Business Case, Open Innovation, ROI

See how SCA, a large, international consumer products organization, achieved a return on investment (ROI) of 74%, with a payback period of less than three months as a result of using InnoCentive Challenges for open innovation in a major R&D division of the organization.

Case Study: Harvard Business School Study of InnoCentive

June 10, 2008
TAGS: Best Practice, Corporation, Crowdsourcing, Government, Innovation, Making the Business Case, Not for Profit, Open Innovation, ROI

This validating case study provides details about safeguarding intellectual property, talks about the benefits to commercial enterprises, and lists specific examples of Ideation Challenges posted on InnoCentive.com.

Challenge Solution: Oil Industry Outsider Solves Oil Spill Recovery Challenge

November 7, 2007
TAGS: Best Practice, Corporation, Crowdsourcing, Government, InnoCentive Book, Innovation, Making the Business Case, Not for Profit, Open Innovation, Social Innovation

In the summer of 2007, the Oil Spill Recovery Institute (OSRI) posted 3 Challenges on the InnoCentive website, all dealing with oil spill recovery issues from the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989. The first of these Challenges was solved in November 2007 by an oil industry outsider who used his expertise in the concrete industry to come up with the winning solution. John Davis, an InnoCentive Solver from the Central United States, was awarded $20,000 for his creative solution.

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