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Explore & Discover

We work with you to stay ahead of disruption and to uncover future breakthroughs.

Find & Connect

Discover radical innovation in an open way

Prize
Challenge

A Prize Challenge is a broad strategic engagement with the global technology community. The goal is to identify breakthrough technology opportunities or solutions to act upon including working prototypes. It has a compelling prize strategy, PR and marketing and is a powerful tool for raising broad awareness among many audiences.

VALUE TO YOU...

  • Positions your brand to the world as an innovation leader and partner of choice.
  • Mobilizes your organization and promotes cross-functional collaboration around an innovation initiative.
  • Motivates diverse, competitive teams to develop a solution to your technical need in exchange for prizes and access to collaborative opportunities.

WHAT YOU GET...

  • Transform your product or process. Find real solutions, design and prototypes.
  • Transform your business. Uncover new business models, markets and applications for your technology.
  • Transform the world. Advance radical innovations to solve high aspirational needs and societal issues.

TESTIMONIAL

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“The challenge [Recycling in Space Challenge] produced ideas that were innovative and that we had not yet considered. I look forward to further investigating these ideas and hope they will contribute to our human spaceflight missions."
Paul Hintze, a chemist with NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Exploration Research and Technology Programs and a judge for the competition, USA

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Clarify undefined or fuzzy technology space

Landscaping

A deep dive into a technology or science space through intelligence work combined with cross-industry expertise insights.

VALUE TO YOU...

  • Clarifies a new, undefined or fuzzy technology or science space within the context of your innovation strategy.

WHAT YOU GET...

  • Make more informed decision and innovation investment against your business needs.
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Engage into your open innovation journey

Program Design
Sprint

Discuss your innovation challenges and get our advice on a course of action to jumpstart your Open Innovation journey.

VALUE TO YOU...

  • Leverages NineSigma's experience and expertise from over 20 years of industry thought leadership.
  • Gets you started on your innovation journey.
  • Catalyzes ideas within your internal Network.
  • Engages your cross-functional teams.
  • Defines and aligns problems and needs against business strategy.

WHAT YOU GET...

  • Benchmark your organization's innovation status quo.
  • Provide a framework and recommendations for your open innovation program.
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NINESIGMA'S STRENGTHS

Advising you on the best course of action

Advising you on the best course of action

By building on thousands of projects and on more than 75,000 connections made for 800 global clients from all industries, we can rapidly assess what is feasible or not in terms of finding solutions outside. We can then define with you the best course of action to access faster and in a more agile way start-ups, expertise, solutions and new partners.

Leveraging our unique approach for technology needs

Leveraging our
unique approach for technology needs

By leveraging our unique experience in addressing complex scientific and technological challenges, our team enables you to rigorously frame your needs and technology challenges to expose them either publicly or anonymously in front of a global community of potential partners and experts from all sectors and domains.

Targeting the right partners for each project

Targeting the
right partners for
each project

Through NineSigma’s proprietary search platform along with our deep and broad expertise, we identify potential partners around the world and access state-of-the-art science and technologies. We take you to a network of millions of researchers and industry professionals from different areas and sectors, from start-ups, SMEs and large companies to academia and labs across the world.

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Assessing the potential
of identified solutions with you

We provide you with our views on the current characteristics, performance, applicability, and potential of the sought science and technology. By analyzing your needs from different angles, we target useful, customized information to help you advance faster in your innovation projects.

Get in touch

NineSigma Europe BV

Koning Leopold I straat 3
B-3000 Leuven
Belgium

+32 16 24 42 80

​europe@ninesigma.com

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