InnoCentive Resource Center

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.

 

Video: What is InnoCentive?

April 10, 2012
TAGS: Corporation, Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation

Three minute overview of InnoCentive and the power of Challenges.

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: Adding Value to Stage-Gate Through the Use of Challenges

April 2, 2012
TAGS: Best Practice, Crowdsourcing, InnoCentive Book, Open Innovation

This white paper explores the use of prize-based Challenges to accelerate innovation outcomes and improve business performance through integration to existing enterprise business processes, and specifically, the ubiquitous Stage-Gate process.

Webinar Replay: Open Innovation & Collaboration Webinar - NASA Presents its Real Life Implementation and Lessons Learned

March 29, 2012
TAGS: Best Practice, Government, Innovation, Open Innovation, ROI

This webinar focuses on NASA’s experience with collaborative innovation and partnership building activities through non-traditional methodologies. Specifically discussed are the implementation strategies utilized by the agency, the obstacles encountered, and the successful outcomes and lessons learned.

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 & 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.

White Paper: Harnessing the Global Talent Pool to Accelerate Innovation

February 15, 2012
TAGS: Best Practice, Crowdsourcing, Innovation, Open Innovation

Authored by industry thought leader Braden Kelley and following on the heels of a recent webinar on the same topic, this white paper explores the intersection of talent management and open innovation strategies. The paper dives into why having an external talent strategy is becoming increasingly important and how it can help your company accelerate innovation, shows how leading organizations manage their open innovation and crowdsourcing efforts (including case study examples of companies like P&G), and provides proven strategies and steps to take for attracting talent to your organization's innovation efforts.

Case Study: Prize4Life

January 26, 2012
TAGS: Best Practice, Not for Profit, Social Innovation

Read about the $1 million Grand Challenge to find a biomarker for ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. The solution is expected to cut the cost of a Phase II clinical trial from $10 million to $5 million.

Webinar Replay: Harnessing The Global Talent Pool to Accelerate Innovation

December 13, 2011
TAGS: Best Practice, Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation

Braden Kelley, co-founder of Innovation Excellence, a global online innovation community and author of "Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire," explores how organizations can utilize open innovation and crowdsourcing resources as an essential talent management strategy to drive their business.

Case Study: EnterpriseWorks

December 8, 2011
TAGS: Best Practice, Open Innovation, Social Innovation

Read about how EnterpriseWorks tapped the InnoCentive Solver Network to solve the "unsolvable" problem of providing fresh drinking water to people in developing areas. The solution provided fresh water and new economic opportunities for millions of people.

Case Study: Precyse Technologies, Inc.

December 8, 2011
TAGS: Best Practice, Open Innovation

Precyse Technologies, Inc. turned to InnoCentive to find a way to remotely wake up a wireless device without using a battery – at a dramatically longer range than any market available technology would allow. They found a solution that exceeded their needs - and saved them over $1 Million in R&D costs.

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.

White Paper: Solving The World's Toughest Challenges in Grand Fashion

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

This white paper explores the design, execution, and effective use of Grand Challenges to solve the problems that matter to commercial enterprises, public sector agencies, and nonprofit organizations. It dives into the definition and benefits of Grand Challenges, the essential requirements for a successful program, pitfalls and obstacle avoidance, and examples of Grand Challenges in action.

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.

Challenge Solution: Prize4Life ALS Biomarker Discovered

February 7, 2011
TAGS: Crowdsourcing, Not for Profit, Open Innovation

In 2006, Prize4Life partnered with InnoCentive to launch the $1 million ALS Biomarker Prize with the goal of accelerating the development of a biomarker — an inexpensive and easy-to-use tool that can accurately measure the progression of ALS in patients. An effective biomarker will make clinical trials of ALS drugs cheaper, quicker, and more efficient. By overcoming a fundamental obstacle in drug development for ALS, the discovery of a biomarker clears the way forward for pharmaceutical and biotech companies to develop treatments for ALS. The awarding of the $1 million ALS Biomarker Prize in 2011 to Dr. Seward Rutkove for his identification of a biomarker marks a significant step forward in ALS research.

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: The Total Economic Impact™ of InnoCentive’s Enterprise Solution

February 1, 2010
TAGS: Best Practice, Corporation, Innovation, Making the Business Case, Open Innovation, ROI, Training

See how a large multinational agricultural company achieved a return on investment (ROI) of 182%, with a payback period of less than two months, by deploying InnoCentive Challenges, InnoCentive@Work and OnRAMP to facilitate innovation in their R&D organization. This case study is by Forrester Consulting on behalf of InnoCentive.

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.

Challenge Solution: TB Alliance Works to Eradicate One of the World’s Deadliest Diseases

December 4, 2008
TAGS: Crowdsourcing, Social Innovation

In late 2007, the TB Alliance, a not-for-profit, product development partnership (PDP) dedicated to accelerating the discovery and development of new and improved drugs to treat tuberculosis, posted a Challenge on the InnoCentive web site. The Challenge was seeking a theoretical solution to simplify the manufacturing process of a current drug compound. This new methodology would improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of producing the compound, making it more widely available and more effective against the spread of TB, which is responsible for one death every 20 seconds. The solution was provided by two Solvers, one of whom was a scientist with a very personal stake in finding a cure for TB. His contribution to developing a cost effective process will benefit millions suffering from TB especially from developing and underdeveloped countries.

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 the InnoCentive.com.

Challenge Solution: Solver Brings Light to African Villages

March 8, 2008
TAGS: Crowdsourcing, Social Innovation

In late 2007, SunNight Solar, an organization that is dedicated to shining a light on problems plaguing the developing world including poverty, women’s safety, health, and literacy, sought the help of InnoCentive’s Solver community to create a dual-purpose solar light to serve as both a lamp and a flashlight to be used in African villages and other areas of the world without electricity. This invention provides sufficient light for security at night, enabling children to study and allowing family members to safely walk to outhouses at night. An electrical engineer from New Zealand solved the Challenge and was awarded $20,000 in March 2008.

White Paper: Innovation Contests, Open Innovation, and Multi-agent Problem Solving

February 21, 2008
TAGS: Best Practice, Corporation, Crowdsourcing, Innovation, Making the Business Case, Open Innovation

This paper analyzes the interaction between a Seeker and a set of Solvers based on InnoCentive Challenges approach to open innovation. It explores how a Seeker company can benefit from a larger Solver population as it obtains a more diverse set of solutions. It also helps predict which types of products and cost structures would most likely benefit from the contest approach to innovation.

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