Seeker Spotlight: The Rockefeller Foundation
We recently announced the renewal of our partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation. The partnership, first established in 2006, has been overwhelmingly successful in using the InnoCentive “open innovation model” to help non-profit organizations develop solutions on behalf of the world’s most poor and vulnerable populations. We asked Amanda Severeid from Rockefeller to talk with us a bit about the partnership and the use of prize-based open innovation in the non-profit world.
Hi Amanda – thanks for talking with us. Why did you choose to extend your partnership with InnoCentive?
Due the success of the Rockefeller Foundation’s previous partnership with InnoCentive, resulting in 10 Challenges with an 80 percent success rate, the Foundation decided to extend the partnership to continue helping non-profit organizations gain access to cutting edge innovation and some of the world’s greatest scientific thinkers and problem solvers.
Why do you think open innovation is a good fit for non-profit organizations? (more…)
