Inventors, Problem Solvers Wanted

Are you a creative person, an innovator, and/or inventor? Do you often look at systems or objects and think of ways to improve those systems or objects?

Are you currently unemployed?

Well, InnoCentive, a community of problem solvers, rewards people for their creativity and problem-solving abilities.

InnoCentive is a website that offers monetary rewards for solving problems. InnoCentive maintains a database of problems that "seekers" have submitted, along with the reward amount for solving each problem.

There are several ways to engage in the Solver community. Join the discussion and meet like-minded problem Solvers. Or find a potential team member that complements your background and area of expertise on a specific Challenge.

Even if you can't solve a problem, if you refer someone, you can earn money according to their referral program Refer them and earn up to $1,500 the first time they solve an InnoCentive Challenge!

Benefits of Joining InnoCentive

Assemble Your Dream Team

With InnoCentive's Team Project Rooms (TPR), you can assemble your own dream team of smart and motivated peers. In fact, many Challenges offer the opportunity for cross-functional collaboration. By assembling the right team, you'll increase your chances of submitting a winning submission.

Team Project Rooms

Team Project Rooms are set up and primed for collaboration. InnoCentive has created legal agreements to facilitate intellectual property rights and award sharing. There are also tools for creating discussion forums, sharing documents, communicating with each other and with InnoCentive.

While not all Challenges come with the capability to set up a Team Project Room, all Challenges can be solved by teams. The only difference is that in Challenges without Team Project Rooms, you'll be responsible for negotiating with your peers and making your own arrangements in terms of award sharing.

Your Work Can Have an Impact on the World

How often do you have an opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to the world? To apply your knowledge and creativity beyond your day job? To tinker in other disciplines by applying best practices you've honed on your own? Now you can. By becoming a Solver, you'll be joining a community of dynamic doers. Independent thinkers whose brains are teeming with curiosity. It doesn't matter how many degrees you have or if you have none at all. Where you work, live or play. All that really matters is that you want to push new boundaries and attack important problems. To help make the world a better place, solving one problem at time. Anyone can be a problem solver. So choose a problem that matters to you, and start solving.

Recognition and Cash Rewards

It pays to solve problems. In addition to feeling good about your contribution being valued, winning Solvers earn cash with prizes ranging from $5,000 to $1,000,000. Some of our most prolific Solvers have even quit their day jobs to focus on finding the answers to problems full time.

Join the Community of Problem Solvers

InnoCentive's Solvers are over 225,000 strong and growing every day. Problem Solvers hail from more than 200 countries and every discipline imaginable. It's your choice how public or private a Solver you want to be. As you start getting your Solver sea legs, we'll provide you with a lot of feedback so that you can better understand the process and build your confidence as a Solver.

Your Intellectual Property is Protected

Every precaution is taken to help protect your work. Your solution will only be seen by InnoCentive and the company that posts the Challenge. Solvers and Seekers are also required to sign an agreement protecting confidential information. If your solution requires the transfer of intellectual property they have a process in place to handle the transfer.

For more information about how you can become a member, go to http://www.innocentive.com.

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Start Solving Problems that Matter, InnoCentive