"At Sandvik, we believe sustainability is directly connected to good, profitable business. Working with Wazoku and integrating an Ideas Hub has supercharged our goal of achieving 100,000 sustainability ideas by 2030."

"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 …

“We realized that in our Pezouliotika photovoltaic plant, one of the winning solutions was very suitable for creating a biodiversity hotspot. The implemented solutions provide space, habitat, and forage for wild pollinator species such as bees and butterflies. We chose this location in order to focus on the preservation of …

“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."

"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, …

"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.”