Open innovation challenges

This challenge is to combine care home data with other health records in order to  predict and react to a resident's health needs. 

Innovative solutions are required that can analyse and present hip fracture patients’ data. This will support clinical decision making and improve the quality of care. 

European Space Agency is seeking space-based solutions to advance the provision of seamless and sustainable healthcare in developing economies.

European Space Agency is seeking space-based solutions to monitor and reduce air, water and soil pollution.

European Space Agency is seeking space-based solutions to foster the implementation and safe and secure operation of the next generation of urban mobility.

The European Space Agency (ESA) is looking for solutions based on space technologies or space data to prevent and detect food and drink fraud.

An initiative from the Construction Innovation Centre Scotland (CSIC) designed to quickly match industry challenges with potential solution providers and funding for impact focused innovation projects.

Wave Energy Scotland is seeking external experts and an innovative technological design solution for its wave energy device coupling system challenge.

Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is looking for innovative partners for R&D challenges. 

KTN Innovation Exchange are working with a large UK company to find an alternative to manual inspection of manhole and service trench covers. 

Marine condensers are prone to corrosion. This challenge is looking for innovative technology that will reduce the need for maintenance and loss of efficiency due to down-time.

GSK want to find new ways to contact healthcare professionals by using alternative digital channels and technologies.

UNARETI are looking for innovative solutions to develop a compact underground substation with specific size restrictions, no indoor space, and a single point of access above the surface.

Solutions needed to monitor the condition aluminium core array cables used in onshore windfarm applications.

World Vision, supported by SeaFreight Labs, is seeking novel new ideas, concepts, and approaches to tackle the lack of adequate toilets and latrines in some of the poorest areas of the world.

This challenge is to find a new defoamer formulation or technology for use in glossy water-based paints with low pigment volume concentration (PVC).  It must prevent or destroy foam, be silicone and mineral-oil free, and not cause surface defects in the finished coating.

CoSolve is a new global, virtual, open innovation challenge at AstraZeneca, seeking to find new collaborators – those with the boldest innovations and solutions that will help us create the next wave of medicines to help transform patients' lives.

The EPA are looking for a non-thermal way of destroying PFAs in concentrated aqueous film forming foam (AFFF), while creating the least amount of potentially harmful by-products.

Enel is looking for tailored approaches to improve the way in which people living with disability can move around public or private buildings.

The UK’s space industry leader Airbus, has teamed with KBR, Leidos UK, Northrop Grumman and QinetiQ to bring new thinking to future space solutions and to launch the Open Innovation – Space initiative. Interested in working with this consortium?

Find challenges from global organisations seeking innovative solutions on the Leading Edge Only network.

Wales & West Utilities seek a partner to develop the opportunities identified for greater coordination between electricity and gas networks for real time operations and forecasting of flexible gas generation.

How do Twinings get people who pause with a coffee mid afternoon, to choose Twinings as a way to feel more connected with the real world?

Fujitsu is seeking cost-effective SAAS applications to allow them to extract information from Salesforce, supplement with data, and ensure that it can tag the CRM record back to the contact in Salesforce - whilst remaining GDPR compliant.

Lloyd's Register is looking for solutions that relate to the connection between physical food objects and digital records – so-called ‘phygital’ solutions.

Innovative solutions needed to keep equipment, such as camera systems, free from internal moisture, ensuring cameras will function with little to no maintenance in all weathers and environments.

Innovative solutions needed for fast, simple and modern ways of fastening glass to metal components such as prisms and lenses to plates and within tubes.

Innovative solutions needed to keep camera system windows clean for military land platforms, ensuring cameras have a clear view of the scene in all weathers and environments.

Port safety innovation needed that would work with a broad range of freight types, haulage companies and vessel types.

Do you have outstanding innovative business ideas that you would like to propose or further develop with Philips? Challenge is ongoing.

P&G is actively seeking innovation and partnership solutions across a number of programme innovation areas. Challenge is ongoing.

This leading home, health and personal care company is looking to partner with startups and entrepreneurs to find hardware devices, formulations and packaging solutions for their products.