InnoCentive Reviews

Best part is coming up with out of the box solutions, for small companies it is getting the benefit of crowdsourcing without having to set it up yourself.

No vetting of people working on your questions. Real expert unwilling to work on the come - get a lot of college kids who think they know it all. From other side, no pay unless you come up with solution, pay is not always related to work involved - lots want the work for free.

For the price per user, can get expensive real quickly. Just have one point person - that way you just pay for one users

Getting different perspectives on problems - finding other people's pain points. Cut down on flawed market launches - people pointed out stuff my team missed.

It's an experienced team, easy platform and process. For organizations that don't have a big innovation team, InnoCentive becomes an easy way to explore Open Innovation in a comfortable and well tested environment. We made a lot of progress in very little time, and were repeat customers every year after we signed up.

I can't think of anything that I disliked about the InnoCentive experience.

Talk to them about all the ways they have been involved in Open Innovation. Without revealing any confidential details about any client, you will realize how organizations in other sectors have applied this approach.

One of the most important benefits was to involve a community of individual solvers in a world where institutions work with other organizations (consultants, for example), and how individuals not affiliated with organizations in a given field can provide a totally different perspective.

Whether you have a challenge or are looking to use your skills and creativity, Innocentive offers a unique and effective crowdsourcing platform.

The challenges posted can be limited. It seems that it doesn't yet draw a huge user base from either side of the equation.

Explore the current challenges posted on InnoCentive to get an understanding how it is used.

It offers an effective way of paying for solutions if and when solutions are presented, which gives a great financial incentive to the person or people who contribute, while also cutting down on wasted expenses for the inquirer.

The definition process on the challenge selections and the thinking that needs to go into this to maximise chances of positive and valuable outcomes.

The risk associated with the challenge in a highly specialised and technology area to find experts who can meaningfully contribute to this.

The benefits of both were hard to quantify as the solutions to the challenge provided part of the needs in an important overall innovation projects. As a so-called cog in the wheel they were materially important.

Principal contact and his queries at the time of solution review and challenge drafting.

Too much time is spent and can be improved

Coating problems. Chemical challenges etc? Process optimisation is the outcome

It is very good if you have problems that you can't solve, the usually respond within 24 hours.

Innocentive could add information about the duration of time it takes between having your project proposal accepted and actually receiving payment as well as what documentation is needed to be signed, notarized and sent back to them after your project is accepted.

Fast at responding, but they need to be more detailed

New ideas for our company. So far the ideas have helped us expand our company to a more diverse clientele.

I would like to have some suggestion by Innocentive to improve our Open Innovation ecosystem, eventually add other service provided by Innocentive

What doesn't work in the challenge driven methodology

We are solving technical challenge , having valuable technical solution in short time

The concept is super intuitive and easily deployed.

the solutions at times take a while to arrive at.

The main business problem is the solving of complex problems that require diverse expertise, specifically mathematical modeling

I am satisfied with the broad reach and scope

I have been overall satisfied with experience!

Lack of knowledge in biomarker space for epilepsy.

The idea of open innovation is very helpful to save the internal cost

I feel need for better communication with solvers

business idea

Great program concept,webinar capable...

A little difficult to navigate pages. ..

Integrating employees