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InnoCentive Inc., the pioneer in crowdsourced innovation and software platforms, and Nosco, a software and consulting company specialized in idea management, today announced a strategic partnership that will provide clients with a wider array of innovation solutions.
The need for innovation is greater than ever before and one of the best ways for companies to innovate is through the crowd. Crowdsourced innovation allows a company to engage a large and diverse community of people with different backgrounds, skills and competencies, who offer creative insight, novel ideas to solutions, business challenges or opportunities.
Challenge Driven Innovation from InnoCentive, engages its crowd of more than 300,000 problem solvers from 200 different countries, and Nosco works with the crowd within an organization, namely its employees. InnoCentive has a strong U.S. presence with companies such as AstraZeneca, Cleveland Clinic and NASA on its client list; Nosco has a strong focus on Europe with clients such as BASF, Volvo and Volkswagen.
Together, Nosco and InnoCentive now provide the innovation services and applications needed for effective crowdsourced innovation both within and outside an organization.
“We are impressed with the Idea Management leadership of Nosco and are pleased to add these capabilities to our crowdsourced Challenge Driven Innovation capabilities. We can now provide our clients a full suite of idea generation, idea management and solution generation capabilities,” said Craig Jones, Chairman of the Board and CEO, for InnoCentive.
“With this partnership both Nosco and InnoCentive further strengthen their capabilities to make organizations more innovative. To be a truly innovative organization, we believe you need to engage both people within the organization and experts from outside. This partnership provides our clients with some of the best tools and expertise in the world for engaging people in innovation so they can reach broader and become better and more efficient innovators,” said CEO Oliver Bernhard of Nosco.
InnoCentive Idea Management is a powerful, easy to use, intuitive software platform (available as SaaS or on-premise) that helps drive engagement and participation around idea generation. Built on cutting-edge technologies, InnoCentive Idea Management can manage thousands of ideas at any given time and includes rich features such as, simple workflows, advanced admin functionality, multiple language support, search engine and filtering options, as well as, a comprehensive set of real time analytics, all in a secure environment.
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