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Marketplace · For Individuals

Share your expertise with global businesses and charities, and accelerate innovation impact

Subject matter experts don't pay to be part of the Innocentive Marketplace. There's no charge to join and no charge to respond to opportunities - the money moves in one direction, towards you.

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No charge to take part

You don't pay to be here

Joining costs nothing, and neither does seeing or responding to opportunities. There's no membership tier and no paid placement - what qualifies you here is your expertise and your track record, which is exactly what our customers come to us to reach.

What you get access to

Opportunities from some of the world's biggest organisations

Innocentive customers - global enterprises, foundations, charities and government bodies - post Marketplace Expertise Challenges when they need expertise they don't hold in-house. If your domain matches, you respond.

The work varies more than people expect:

Consulting and advisory support

on live innovation programmes

Challenge writing

turning a vague business problem into a well-framed, solvable brief

Evaluation and review

assessing submitted solutions on technical merit

Project partnership

joining a team assembled for a specific piece of work

Open talent engagements

where an organisation needs a named specialist rather than an agency

Most come with the scope and the award defined up front. You decide whether it's worth your time before you spend any.

How it works

How it works

  1. 01

    Register.

    Free, and it takes a few minutes. Tell us your domains of expertise so the right opportunities reach you.

  2. 02

    Watch for Expertise Challenges.

    They're posted continuously across science, engineering, technology, life sciences, business and beyond. You'll be notified about the ones that match your profile.

  3. 03

    Respond to the ones that fit.

    Responding signals that you're available and interested. There's no obligation to respond to anything, and no penalty for passing.

  4. 04

    Get selected, do the work, get paid.

    Awards and fees are defined before you commit.

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The Crowd behind it

You'd be in serious company

The Innocentive Crowd is more than a million solvers, subject matter experts, academics and start-ups across the world. It has been running for over twenty years, and in that time its members have solved problems that large R&D organisations had shelved as intractable - often by bringing a method from one field to a problem in another.

Meet our Solvers · Solver verification and award information
NASA Gates Foundation Microsoft The Economist
Specialists collaborating in a healthcare research setting

Put your expertise to work

If you know something valuable, there is an organisation somewhere that needs it and doesn't know you exist. Registering takes a few minutes and costs nothing.

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