Case Study: Vestas achieves global R&D collaboration and 32 production-ready concepts with HYPE Innovation

Connecting global R&D to drive breakthrough innovation

Vestas, the world leader in wind energy with revenues exceeding €6bn and a rapidly growing global workforce (5,000 new hires in 2008 and 11 R&D units across three continents), needed a scalable way to capture continuous breakthrough and incremental innovation from dispersed R&D teams to stay competitive in a fast-moving market.

Vestas deployed HYPE’s customizable innovation platform as “myvestasidea,” enabling global idea sharing, discussion, voting and a staged concept pipeline. The program scaled from a 450-person pilot to 1,300 users, produced over 1,000 ideas and moved 32 concepts into the production pipeline, while boosting cross-border collaboration, knowledge sharing and employee engagement.

Vestas

Jovita Ivanaviciute

Global Innovation Partner