InnoCentive, the global open innovation marketplace, and Nature Publishing Group (NPG) have announced a partnership to encourage greater scientific collaboration.
Innocentive and NPG will work together to stimulate the involvement of scientists worldwide in solving global scientific challenges, via an online marketplace for problems and their solutions.
The concept of 'open innovation' addresses the research challenges that organisations face by using external expertise to solve problems and drive development of products and technologies.
Global challenges such as the development of better protection against malaria, finding ways to shorten the clinical trials process and the design of environmentally friendly, sustainable product packaging require diverse expertise.
InnoCentive's open innovation website provides a platform for organisations, companies and government agencies (known as 'seekers') to post 'challenges' for the public (known as 'solvers') to solve for financial reward.
NPG and InnoCentive intend to jointly produce an online platform for open innovation challenges in the coming months, to allow the participation of NPG's large expert audience.
