InnoCentive

What is InnoCentive. Is an E-Business that connects companies, academic institutions and non-profit organizations. It was founded is 2001. Its headquarter is in USA. But as it is internet business it arrives to 175 countries with a network of 125,000 creative minds.
How it works?
You can be a seekers (someone with a challenge) or a solvers (someone with a solution) and then you have a marketplace. Where you can post it in different fields, challenges with a deadline and a prize.
So you are motivated to work, the solvers. So is business that has 2 types of clients, the solvers and the seekers.

The discipline are: chemistry, engineer design, physical science, math and computer, life sciences, entrepreneurs and business.
Is a mechanism to make the days happen as they said. Is like going to the future and revolutionaries the world. In a fast way. Is like having the possibility that Einstein meets the company to change the world in fast way.

Who are the clients:
In one is the companies, academic business, etc.
In the other is the solvers, people willing to solve, brilliants minds could be already famous or could be someone begging in the market. Freelancers.

It has as partners Quovix that assists organizations by helping them better manage, communicate, and deliver corporate intelligence through their patent pending community-delivered service model.
Innovation Network (IIN) and InnoCentive Inc. today announced the formation of a new marketing partnership to educate researchers and corporations as to how best these organizations can help drive innovation and technology to market. http://prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=153967
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Innocentive impacts in the global community and is business developing, it helps also the non-profit organisations to resolve problems of the environmental.

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