Introducing HYPE 11: The Smart Innovation Platform

Bonn, Germany – HYPE Innovation, the smart innovation management platform, launches a major update to its top-rated platform. HYPE 11 empowers its community to innovate smarter with industry-defining capabilities, offering greater flexibility and intelligence across the platform.

HYPE 11 turns HYPE’s existing family of products into an integrated AI-powered, highly flexible, smart innovation platform and adds new capabilities with additional modules and features.

“With AI at its core, HYPE 11 provides customers with the self-service tools they need to solve real-world challenges faster and smarter,” said Frank Henningsen, CEO of HYPE Innovation. “It’s not just about technology; it’s about making innovation accessible and effective for everyone across the organization.”

Discover tools designed to boost and streamline your entire innovation process from strategy to realization. Get ready to transform your innovation game!

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The Innovation Graph

Harness the Power of AI to Connect the Dots & Understand the Big Picture

The innovation landscape is a complex maze of internal and external data, often taking years for even experienced leaders to navigate. Introducing Innovation Graph, a groundbreaking feature of the HYPE Smart Innovation Platform. By harnessing the power of proprietary Machine Learning models, Generative AI, and advanced interactive data visualization techniques, Innovation Graph transforms this data into clear, consistent topic clusters —helping you understand your innovation landscape faster than ever before.

With advanced filtering and search capabilities that help you dive deeper; you can easily explore diverse insights and see how different elements are interconnected in your innovation landscape. Plus, our network graph reveals the hidden connections between topic clusters, making the complex web of your innovation world clearer than ever. You can, for example, compare the trends in the outside world with the projects you are currently working on internally, identifying blind spots in seconds.

With the Innovation Graph, analyzing mountains of data is no longer a challenge. Stay one step ahead with HYPE’s latest AI magic.

HYPE Boards

Innovate Flexibly and Collaboratively with Ease

Need to quickly plan an upcoming workshop, brainstorm some ideas, run experiments to validate your next big innovation, or just run a simple Kanban board for the ideas in your team? You’re not alone, and we’ve now got you covered! Meet HYPE Boards, an agile innovation tool built for teams of all sizes.

It enables decentralized innovation and helps organizations adapt quickly to changing demands. The tool empowers every team and unit to contribute to your innovation goals, driving micro-innovation across the organization, and dramatically accelerating your pace of innovation.

Say goodbye to messy spreadsheets and endless chat threads! With HYPE Boards, you can create a tailored innovation space for your team. Its user-friendly interface integrates seamlessly into your daily tools (such as Microsoft Teams), making innovation an inherent part of your workflow.

Seamlessly integrated with the HYPE Suite and the rest of your innovation ecosystem, it’s the perfect tool to foster a culture of innovation in units across the organization. Built for agility and intuitive use, HYPE Boards empower teams to innovate at the speed of change.

Eager to know more about HYPE Boards? Check out our website.

Harness Generative AI to Coach and Assist Innovators

AI Coach: Your Smart Idea-Polishing Assistant

We’ve all been there: you ask your staff or customers for ideas and get dozens if not hundreds of one-sentence overviews and end up spending countless hours chasing down people to try to understand what they meant – or you just ignore their input altogether.

That’s where HYPE's AI Coach comes in. It provides real-time feedback and suggestions for each innovator, boosting the quality of submitted ideas by helping contributors improve the structure and content of their ideas to ensure they meet the goals of your campaign.

Inspire Creativity with AI Seed Ideas

The Blank Canvas Syndrome is real. Starting a new campaign can be daunting without a spark. HYPE’s AI-powered Seed Ideas generates creative, tailored solutions with a click, inspiring contributors to share or collaborate on AI-generated ideas when they’re stuck for inspiration.

Plus, in the right context, the latest AI models have been proven to outperform human input, allowing you to move from a problem to a solution in a matter of seconds!

Get to the Point Faster with AI Web Clipper

Don’t have time to read through lengthy articles or need a quick overview of a website? We feel you! HYPE Web Clipper now comes with AI Summarization.

It can capture and squeeze any content into clear, easy-to-read summaries that are made available in HYPE for your innovation community, making it a breeze to record what’s happening on the outside.

Enterprise-ready – AI that your Compliance Team Will Love

HYPE's Generative AI capabilities are enterprise-ready, offering maximum flexibility, privacy, and compliance. HYPE supports the latest Generative AI models from multiple vendors, including OpenAI’s GPT-4o and 4o-mini. You can also integrate your company-mandated or fine-tuned models, giving you full control and ensuring compliance.

Excited by the magic of AI and want to dive deeper? Visit our website.

HYPE Partnering Scout

Discover and Connect with the Best Organizations

In today’s global and rapidly moving landscape, organizations need to move faster than ever before and deliver innovations with tighter budgets. The answer is HYPE Partnering: a structured approach to finding the right innovative companies and solutions to work with. Deliver measurable results in a fraction of the time and budget you’re used to.

With HYPE 11, we’re introducing HYPE Partnering Scout, your ultimate search engine for discovering the perfect innovation partners. Gain access to Europe’s largest startup database and a global network of over 1 million companies. Our AI doesn’t just search—it analyzes millions of data points daily, adding up to 5,000 new startups each week, while continuously updating and filtering out inactive companies. Plus, it seamlessly integrates with other leading databases like Crunchbase, giving you an even broader reach.

Ready to discover more about HYPE Partnering? Check out our website.

About HYPE Innovation

HYPE Innovation is a leading provider of software and consulting for innovation management, offering a comprehensive platform for the entire lifecycle of your innovation program. Our solutions encompass end-to-end Ideation, Technology and Trend Management, Startup Scouting, Innovation Partner Management, and Ecosystem Engagement. As a top-tier player in the innovation management landscape, we enable our clients to uncover opportunities, foster collaboration, and drive strategic goals, from growth to cost-saving and sustainable transformation, enabling them to excel at innovation.