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NineSigma specializes in open innovation. Since 2000, NineSigma has been connecting companies with experts that will solve their problems or open doors for new opportunities, wherever they are in the world.
Through its end-to-end services, NineSigma empowers organizations to reach beyond their usual networks to a worldwide community of scientific and technical experts, to tap solutions and technologies that can be integrated into R&D, marketing and business development processes. This strategy reveals fresh perspectives to solve strategic challenges and is proven to cut new product development time by as much as 50%.
“Open Innovation has become a true imperative in organizations that aim to stay ahead of competition and impact the global economy,”
said Dr. Andy Zynga, CEO of NineSigma.
“Even the most innovative companies benefit from reaching beyond their own organizations and industry networks, to collaborate with external solution providers and advance their innovation goals.”
NineSigma connects organizations with external innovation resources to accelerate innovation in private, public and social sectors. NineSigma has the largest open global network of solution providers and an extensive database of existing solutions spanning numerous industries and technical disciplines. In 2015, the company was again named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies in America.
Through its core Technology Search process NineSigma works hand-in-hand with clients to carefully craft statements of need, or challenges, on their behalf, and facilitates a careful review of submissions from the NineSigma world-wide innovation network, the largest and most diverse of its kind. NineSigma then collaborates with clients to determine the most productive terms of collaboration possible for clients and solution providers, from beginning to end.
Launched in 2012, NineSigma’s online innovation community, NineSightsTM, is the world’s first open innovation social media destination, connecting innovators of all sizes with resources and relationships to drive growth. NineSights is a secure and collaborative online community that connects innovators of all sizes with the resources and relationships needed to drive business value. The platform allows innovation seekers to post innovation needs and solution providers to submit proposals and post technologies and solutions that are “for sale”. NineSigma ensures quality on the site by vetting both seekers and providers.
NineSights enables productive business relationships between innovators of all sizes. It is quickly becoming the world’s innovation marketplace.
From technology developers, to chemical researchers, to climate and environmental sustainability experts, NineSights stands out for its large community of innovators in an extremely broad range of scientific and technical disciplines, all vetted by NineSigma. The community is free to join and continues to grow rapidly as new needs and opportunities are added to the site.
NineSights helps NineSigma’s clients centralize and manage all of their Open Innovation activities, from Requests for Proposals and Expert Panels, to Innovation Galleries that highlight companies’ needs, and Grand Challenges that galvanize experts to tackle the biggest issues affecting humankind. It is designed to accelerate global innovation by providing a platform for direct collaboration between solution seekers and providers.
NineSigma CEO Andy Zynga said, “Some of our clients have tried different methods and networks for outreach, but have been unable to attract quality solutions and ideas that lead to further collaboration. We are now able to give our clients direct access to our vast ‘global network of networks’ and deliver to them actionable responses that can help them achieve their goals. Our clients have responded to the launch of NineSights by overwhelmingly demanding managed services from NineSigma which we can support through the platform.”
Acutal preferred (inbound mode) collaboration types on its platform NineSightsTM
- Joint Development (161)
- Technology Licensing (153)
- Contract Research (121)
- Supply Agreement (101)
- Technology Acquisition (72)
- To Be Negotiated (36)
- Consulting (22)
- Contract Analysis and Testing (10)
(…) = number of projects, February 16, 2016
Web: http://www.ninesigma.com/europe/ninesigma-europe-home
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NineSigma Europe, a full owned subsidiary of NineSigma Inc., is headquartered in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
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