About the Company

Mission Statement:

To give businesses access to the world's most creative and innovative people, who work collaboratively to solve problems and develop innovations.

To discover the best emerging technologies for our corporate clients.

Every day, IdeaConnection's teams are working on solving challenges for Fortune 1000 companies.

Formed in 2007, IdeaConnection takes on Challenges from companies large and small. With diverse teams, world-class facilitators, and a high 'solve' rate, we are solving problems ranging from nanotechnology, virtual reality, biochemistry, to marketing and sociology.

IdeaConnection.com is all about innovation and creative solutions. Solutions to corporate problems and solutions to problems that will benefit the Common Good.

Companies have problems solved by select groups of great minds that work collaboratively in IdeaConnection's virtual ThinkSpace™.

Under [INNOVATION RESOURCES] IdeaConnection has a large database of technologies for sale and wanted. Listing parties names are confidential, but interested parties can contact them directly.

Value Propositions for IdeaConnection

Innovative Solutions:

IdeaConnection provides businesses with innovative, high quality, and timely solutions to their business and R&D challenges using teams of highly motivated experts located throughout the world led by world-class facilitators.

This service can handle even very complex challenges that remain unsolved by a clients' internal resources.

Support is provided, as required, in defining and fine-tuning challenges in order to ensure our experts' work is focused and productive.

Each challenge is handled by specially selected teams based on their level of expertise related to the problem, and their willingness to devote their energies to teamwork, produce the highest quality solution(s) and "get the job done" on time.

Using IdeaConnection teams provides clients with a leg up in retaining a competitive advantage in the twenty-first century – staying ahead of their competition through innovation.

Clients decide how much the solution to their challenge is worth, and their risk is minimized because they pay only when they receive an acceptable solution and ownership of the underlying intellectual property has been transferred to them. They save time and money by obtaining rapid solutions, while avoiding the need to hire additional R&D staff or find qualified consultants. Most importantly they save because they receive solutions to their problems and are able to manage this open innovation aspect of their R&D on budget.

In order to protect client identity and information, their identity, details of their challenges, and the accepted solutions are kept confidential. Even our teams of experts and facilitators do not know the clients' identity.

Technology Scouting:

IdeaConnection helps companies, governments and other organizations find emerging technologies to meet their needs. This service can be used to search for even the most unique or complex technology that likely exists somewhere in the world.

Each technology need is sent to over 80,000 IdeaConnection partners and experts world-wide who have extensive networks with emerging companies, university labs, home-based labs, patent lawyers who are drawing up patents for clients, and technology scouting professionals.

Clients' costs are reduced because they do not have to develop the technologies themselves, and they only pay for the quality leads they receive. Accessing this service is easy and effective.

Philanthropic Prizes:

IdeaConnection offers organizations that provide prizes for competitions innovative ways to launch and promote their contests locally, nationally, or internationally. The service is customized to meet the organization's goals, to notify appropriate potential competitors, and to increase the public profile of the sponsors.

If sponsors wish to reduce the number of submissions they receive, yet ensure the highest caliber of solutions, they can choose to have IdeaConnection form multiple teams, composed of prequalified worldwide experts, to work on sponsor challenges. Many of our experts are also keen to work on projects for the common good.

Find out more about how we can help you with your project using our successful team-based solutions. Pay only for success.

Meet IdeaConnection at:

CO-DEV 2012 Feb 13-15, 2012, La Jolla, California, USA

OPEN INNOVATION 2012 Apr 16-18, 2012, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA

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