Case Study: Federal government of the United States achieves rapid, cost‑effective open innovation with Wazoku

How the U.S. Government is Conquering Open Innovation

InnoCentive works with the U.S. federal government to tackle hard-to-solve public-sector R&D problems by tapping a global crowd of solvers. Faced with hundreds of agencies, large annual innovation budgets, and the need to ensure tax dollars fund effective solutions rather than costly trial-and-error, agencies needed a reliable way to find targeted ideas and technologies without building a solver network from scratch.

Using its Challenge-Driven Innovation (CDI) approach, InnoCentive designs and runs prize challenges, provides training and IP/compliance support (including America COMPETES and Challenge.gov services), and delivers access to a vetted global and U.S. solver base with masked submissions for fairness. Since 2005 it has run 500+ government challenges (over 2,400 challenges total company-wide), achieving government success rates above 87% and implementation rates over 98% for major clients, and has been used by agencies such as NASA, EPA, DHS, DARPA and the Department of Energy to accelerate solutions more quickly and cost-effectively.

Federal government of the United States