Ideawicket Open Innovation Portal

December 15th, 2008 in Innovation platform, by Head Honcho

http://www.ideawicket.com

“Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.”
- Napoleon Hill (American author, 1883-1970)

Being a student, you might have been able to experience giving your best shot in a project. Not for the fact that you want an A+, although that would most probably be the case for aspirants, but the tremendous effort and enumerable sleepless nights over coffee should be naught in vain. These projects should definitely be worth showing to the public. You’ll never know if your idea catches the attention of a potential investor, right?

So you have your idea or your project and want to showcase your innovation to the public, now where do you go? Try Ideawicket.

Ideawicket is a crowdsourcing portal that harnesses the wisdom of the crowds specifically the wisdom of the students. With crowdsourcing and open innovation, the consumers and the public will not only have a say on how companies should create their products or run their businesses but also a way to put in their ideas for innovation.

FOR STUDENTS

Ideawicket offers a stage for students to showcase their innovations, ideas or college projects which could potentially lead to innovation of products or services of companies. The site offers a platform for these students to build their academic profile online and get a company or investor to notice their skills and capabilities.

FOR RECRUITERS

The site also serves as a venue for recruiters – companies, businesses or non-profit groups, to search for talented students to offer projects or entry level positions to. As mentioned on the site, having students as sources for innovation would ensure longevity of projects aside from that fact that these companies can be ensured of recruiting people that add value rather than “glib talkers and polished salesmen”.

Although the site is still in Beta, it already has hundreds of active users or “Brains” behind the projects that fall in categories ranging from Automotive, to Lifestyle, to Gadgets and Electronics, to Finance.

Aside from viewable projects, Ideawicket also holds innovation contests like “Best College Project Contest ‘08 for Engineering and Design Students”, “The Business Plan Competition” and other posted Innocentive Challenges.

Along with other open innovation portals and sites, Ideawicket just might be the place you are looking for to trade in your ideas or college projects into cold cash or a cool job in a corporation.