Solve challenges and win cash awards

Solvers are at the heart of everything we do, supplying the innovative solutions to organizations’ problems and needs.

Solve challenges and win cash awards

Solvers are at the heart of everything we do, supplying the innovative solutions to organizations’ problems and needs.

Solve challenges

and

win cash awards

Solvers are at the heart of everything we do, supplying the innovative solutions to organizations’ problems and needs.

Register as a Solver

In order to see Challenge details and submit
solutions, you’ll need to sign up to join our Solver
network of 400,000+ diverse and creative minds.
Open to all.

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Visit Challenge Center

Here you’ll find all of our open Challenges.
We provide a steady supply from a wide
array of disciplines, requiring anything from
a short outline to a protoype.

Go >

Register as a Solver

In order to see Challenge details and submit solutions, you’ll need to sign up to our Solver network of 400,000+ diverse and creatives minds. Open to all.

Go >

Visit Challenge Center

Here you’ll find all of our open Challenges. We provide a steady supply from a wide array of disciplines, requiring anything from a short outline to a protoype.

Go >

How it Works

1	Visit our Challenge Center and find an open Challenge you think you can tackle.

2	Login or register to see the full details of the Challenge and open a Project Room. You will also need to accept the Challenge Specific Agreement (CSA) and our Terms of Use. Find out more about CSAs and Project Rooms here.

3	Develop your solution. The required deliverables will be specified in the Challenge description and can range from written proposals to prototypes. If you have any questions, you can message the InnoCentive team via your Project Room.

4	Submit your solution before the Challenge deadline. Only InnoCentive and the Seeker for that Challenge can view your solution.

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After the Challenge deadline, the Seeker will evaluate your submission. Once this stage is completed, you will be notified via email as to whether or not your submission has been selected for an award. For Theoretical and RTP Challenges, you will also receive feedback on your submission from the Seeker.

How it Works

1	Visit our Challenge Center and find an open Challenge you think you can tackle.

2	Login or register to see the full details of the Challenge and open a Project Room. You will also need to agree to the Challenge Specific Agreement (CSA) and our Terms of Use. Find out more about CSAs and Project Rooms here.

3	Develop your solution. The required deliverables will be specified in the Challenge description and can range from written proposals to prototypes. If you have any questions, you can message the InnoCentive team via your Project Room.

4	Submit your solution before the Challenge deadline. Only InnoCentive and the Seeker for that Challenge can view your solution.

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After the Challenge deadline, the Seeker will evaluate your submission. Once this stage is completed, you will be notified via email as to whether or not your submission has been selected for an award. For Theoretical and RTP Challenges, you will also receive feedback on your submission from the Seeker.

Benefits

Make a Positive Impact

Solvers have contributed to tackling some of the world’s most pressing problems, from facilitating access to clean water at a household level to passive solar devices designed to attract & kill malaria-carrying mosquitos.

Make a Positive Impact

Solvers have contributed to tackling some of the world’s most pressing problems, from facilitating access to clean water at a household level to passive solar devices designed to attract & kill malaria-carrying mosquitos.

Exercise Your Brain

Challenges are real problems requiring sustained concentration, critical thinking, research, creativity, and synthesis of knowledge. Developing a solution is incredibly rewarding and an unparalleled mental workout.

Exercise Your Brain

Challenges are real problems requiring sustained concentration, critical thinking, research, creativity, and synthesis of knowledge. Developing a solution is incredibly rewarding and an unparalleled mental workout.

Promote Yourself and Earn Awards

We’ve awarded more than $20 million to thousands of brilliant Solvers from around the world. The average award amount for a Challenge is around $20,000 but some offer awards of over $100,000. But it’s not just about the financial reward. Whether you list your award on your CV or join the exclusive Winning Solvers group on LinkedIn, your accomplishment is guaranteed to attract attention.

Promote Yourself and Earn Awards

We’ve awarded more than $20 million to thousands of brilliant Solvers from around the world. The average award amount for a Challenge is around $20,000 but some offer awards of over $100,000. But it’s not just about the financial reward. Whether you list your award on your CV or join the exclusive Winning Solvers group on LinkedIn, your accomplishment is guaranteed to attract attention.

Solver Profiles

Daniel Castro, Winning Solver

Daniel is a senior analyst at an American think tank and holds a B.S. in Foreign Service and an M.S. in Information Security. He has found his mix of technical expertise and liberal arts education to serve him well in his professional life, never less so than when he won the Economist-InnoCentive Healthcare Information Economy Challenge. He is drawn to the crowdsourcing model by the sheer amount of creativity he found could be generated by working with a community and the fact that participants are judged on the merit of their solutions rather than arbitrary qualifications that may or not be relevant to a project.

“InnoCentive is a great platform for both organizations looking for ideas and individuals who want to get their ideas in front of others.”
Ivan Skachko, Winning Solver

Ivan holds a PhD in Physics, Rutgers University, NJ, USA, and MS in Physics Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia. As a physicist he was never able to fully apply his passion for tackling engineering problems and designing and building things until he discovered InnoCentive Challenges. Despite having no direct experience with ultrasonic waves, he was able to apply his knowledge of optics and radio-frequencies gained during his studies to win the "Mechanical Joint with High Ultrasound Conductivity” Challenge.

“It is not a specific expertise that is crucial for solving problems but a special connection that is created between Solver and the Challenge.”
Dr. Torsten Hothorn, Winning Solver

Torsten is a Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Munich, Germany. While he mainly teaches students of statistics, he enjoys working with scientists from fields as diverse as oncology, ecology, and forestry. He was able to successfully develop and apply some statistical models he had been working on for two InnoCentive Challenges. The first was The Cleveland Clinic "Build an Efficient Pipeline to Find the Most Powerful Predictors" Challenge and the second was the "The DREAM-Phil Bowen ALS Prediction Prize4Life Challenge". Beyond his interest in applying software he has developed and the thrill of competing with people from all over the world, he looks forward to using one of the Challenge datasets in the classroom.

“The InnoCentive leaderboard is really something one can get addicted to.”
David Bradin, Winning Solver

David Bradin, Winning Solver David runs his own patent law practice and previously wrote patent applications for Eli Lilly as outside council. Before going to law school, he worked as a process development chemist, where he gained his winning insight for one of InnoCentive’s first Challenges back in 2002, which looked for efficient synthetic routes to BTCA. As a result of this success, he has been interviewed by magazines, newspapers, and journals, including MIT Technology Review, Chemical and Engineering News, Forbes, Business Week, Business 2.0, and the Boston Globe.

“My experiences with InnoCentive have been very rewarding, personally as well as financially.”