77 Wazoku Testimonials

"All of a sudden, I have a worldwide staff of research assistants that were trying different techniques in parallel."

"Working with InnoCentive expanded our reach to new minds around the world, which would have been inaccessible without this partnership. When we launched what we thought was a neuroscience Challenge we certainly didn’t expect some of the most exciting ideas to come from the fields of dermatology, chemistry, and plant biology and yet that’s what happened. InnoCentive’s Solver network is unparalleled."

"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 one state to another."

"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."

"There is not economy of scale in research. In research its economy of ideas."

"We set it up as an experiment, as an actually compare and contrast, with a designed input and measurable output. Because of this I think we saw a positive response from everybody that we presented to. That was profound: it was quantitatively different than the response to the average presentation, which is more around opinion, and sometimes around data, but rarely around an experiment. It was very powerful in explaining there’s a whole range of problem solving that we simply don’t have any experience of. We can’t comment until we try it."

"We wanted to go beyond our usual cohort of specialists and invite solutions from a potentially unlimited pool of people. In the end, we got brand new thinking with over 50 high quality and original solutions."

"It took me 18 months to develop my initial product. With InnoCentive and my second product, the research to prototype took two months."

"By engaging with expert technologists in the scholarly community, we are able to expand the way users interact with the data in the Web of Knowledge."

"We wanted to tap into the knowledge of the widest possible community and required the know-how to develop effective questions; InnoCentive provides us with this reach and expertise."

“Participation and recognition are just as strong motivators for our employees on the platform as financial rewards – we had more ideas submitted to our first Creative Challenge than the first one with a fixed monetary award.”

“You can’t guarantee a $1m idea every month, but we optimize process and catalyse the cultural change to a more open and innovative mindset.”

“Many naysayers of external collaboration say that it’s too risky, not secure, and hard to manage consistently. With this Challenge, we’ve proven the complete opposite: our predictive agricultural models have benefited massively from the partnership with Wazoku and the insights of the Wazoku Crowd.”

“Over our 40+ years’ experience, we have learned that collaboration is key to finding novel solutions to unmet medical needs. We are proud that the pool of international innovators from the Wazoku network have given fresh insights to help us in developing more simplified vaccine solutions.”

“Using open innovation in this case provided us with interesting avenues to explore. In the last months, our team won a company award for most innovative project as a result of this work with Wazoku.”