Independent-consultant marketplaceFounded 2001
InnoCentive (Wazoku)
London, United Kingdom
InnoCentive is an open-innovation marketplace where organizations post technical and scientific problems with cash rewards to a global network of independent subject-matter-expert solvers - a challenge/crowdsourcing engagement model, distinct from the 1:1 hire-a-consultant model most other vendors in this reference use. Now operated by UK innovation-platform company Wazoku, which acquired it in 2020 and reintroduced the InnoCentive brand in 2025.
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Founded
- 2001
- Website
- www.innocentive.com/
Notable facts
- The idea was conceived in 1998 at Eli Lilly; InnoCentive launched as a company in 2001 and spun out as independent in 2005.
- Acquired by Wazoku in July 2020; Wazoku describes its combined solver ecosystem as 1 million-plus across the platform.
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Sources. This profile is compiled from public reference data, WebSearch-verified against source 1 · source 2. Data as of 2026-07-14. See methodology.
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