Since 2011, our open innovation practice has awarded over $5,000,000 in non-dilutive cash prizes, as well as non-monetary awards, to innovators who address complex problems while stimulating a larger conversation with the public at large.

We surveyed 60 prize recipients (including semi-finalists, finalists, and winners) of 14 large-scale, multistage challenges we ran on behalf of government, nonprofit, or private sector clients from 2011 through 2017 — View the highlights.

With roots in the private sector, our open innovation clientele now includes the U.S. Department of Education (ED), NASA (Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation, NASA Tournament Lab), the EPA, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Partnership for Freedom (a public-private partnership between Humanity United, HHS, the Department of Justice, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of State, and the Department of Labor).

Luminary Lightbox™, our proprietary open innovation platform, marries a highly engaging front-end digital experience with powerful back-end submission management functionality, including eligibility verification, IP management, and judging.