"This project helped fintech start-ups gain traction, and in doing so helped NGOs come up with new ways to solve global developing world issues. There is a huge need and opportunity for collaboration in this space."

"Elanco Animal Health is agnostic to the source of innovation. We have leveraged InnoCentive extensively to identify solutions to extremely challenging scientific problems. The InnoCentive solver network has provided us with truly creative, unconventional solutions that we would not have identified using traditional resources and capabilities."

"We’re really pleased to win the Energy Storage Challenge award. I think more than anything else it’s going to help us accelerate one of our most important projects, one where we can use our hydrogen technology to make a practical demonstrator."

"When I felt how light it was and saw how compact the package was and then filled it with 125 gallons of water, my thirty years in the field told me that we had the makings of a winner."

"I thought this was just really silly that no one in their right mind would come up with a solution for that money and give up their rights to the product."

"As a scientific company, we are experimental by nature and we wanted to experiment with crowdsourcing to see what kind of ideas we could get by going outside our organization and the more traditional avenues of problem solving."

"The Green Chemistry Commerce Council is exceptionally pleased to have partnered with InnoCentive on executing the first Collaborative Innovation Challenge for Safe and Effective Preservatives for Consumer Products. Being a new program, with eighteen companies involved, the Challenge Program faced numerous obstacles. At every step of the way, InnoCentive demonstrated …

"Lion’s Den is about taking an entrepreneurial view of the world. It’s about thinking more openly, about thinking differently and above all, about finding a way forwards. Lion’s Den takes people on a journey from knowing nothing about real business to standing in front of live judges and pitching a …

"I found an experienced crowdsourcing partner with 3Ps: platform, people and process."

"The winning submission was very thorough. It addresses the Challenge requirements and exceeds them with respect to forecast confidence and random prediction. Questions posed back to the Solver were thoroughly addressed."

"This Challenge allowed the team to continue on with other priorities; they do not have time to stop.”

"All cells of a particular type are not identical. An individual cell may become very different, affecting the health and function of its entire population. Today’s tools provide mostly snapshots of single cells, not the movie of changes over time that we need to understand cell states and transitions from …

“The winning solutions can have an immediate impact in research labs and will very likely lead to further innovations by these groups and others.”

"If it was easily solved by people within the industry, it would have been solved by people within the industry. The InnoCentive process allows us to step outside of the box."

"Not only was going down the conventional development path prohibitively expensive, it was simply too slow and had no guarantee of success. We wanted to be first-to-market not the last one to the table."