IdeaConnection and Planbox join forces
Planbox has acquired IdeaConnection to create a full lifecycle innovation marketplace
The best-in-class open innovation expert solver network
With an industry-best 80%+ solve rate, our multidisciplinary teams of hand-picked experts develop solutions to your technical challenges, and are awarded on a pay-for-success basis. Find out how we can work together to get your problem solved. Learn MoreBuild on the genius of others
Small, medium and Fortune 500 companies use our platform to create disruptive or incremental innovation, source technologies, and launch prize-based challenges.Seekers
Discover IdeaConnection's full suite of problem solving, crowdsourcing and collaborative solutions.
Launch a ChallengeSolvers
Join our solver network to win awards and gain recognition for your innovative expertise.
Solve a ChallengeServices
Discover IdeaConnection's full suite of problem solving, crowdsourcing and collaborative solutions.
Confidential Challenges
High quality solutions to your technical or business challenges, without announcing your problem to the world.
Public Challenges
Find solutions by running a global crowdsourcing challenge.
Technology Scouting
Use the power of a network of millions to find technologies or to discover new trends, risks and opportunities.
Prior Art Citation
Use the power of crowdsourcing to find prior art where other methods have failed.
Idea Rally
Dozen or even hundreds of experts collaborate to develop novel ideas that inspire and energize your in-house teams.
Agile Innovation Platform
Bring your innovation ecosystem together on a single platform to virtually collaborate on and develop the best ideas.Expert love from expert innovators
Our customers' love for IdeaConnection goes deep, just like the technical-depth of the solutions that are proposed to them.
"This new approach is truly transformational for our industry."
Joseph Byrum
Head of Product Development at Syngenta
Joseph Byrum
Head of Product Development at Syngenta
Some of the amazing clients we work with
Just like our vast and diverse solver network, our clients come from far and wide and span all sectors.
Build on the genius of others
Tap into an ecosystem of 20,000 experts to solve your most pressing and complex business challenges on a confidential basis.
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