Open Innovation

Open Innovation Software—Go Beyond Boundaries

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Are you looking to scale external collaboration and integrate outside expertise seamlessly? We’ve put together a comprehensive package—including an Open Innovation Guide, the Latest Analyst Report on Innovation Solutions, and two exclusive demo videos—to help you make an informed decision. Simply fill out the form to access all these resources.

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Where Does Open Innovation Feel Stuck?

Navigating external partnerships and integrating fresh perspectives can be a game-changer—or a nightmare—if you don’t have the right approach. Whether you’re struggling to coordinate diverse stakeholder groups or prove ROI to leadership, here’s where we see most teams hitting a wall:

Scattered External Input – Ideas arrive in silos, lacking a central place to evaluate and act on them.
Security & IP Concerns – Sharing sensitive info with partners raises data protection worries.
No Clear Path to ROI – Lack of robust analytics to measure impact and justify investment.
Fragmented Tools & Systems – Multiple platforms create confusion and slow decision-making.
Hard-to-Sustain Engagement – Participants lose interest if they don’t see quick wins or feedback.

Our Solution?

A unified platform and proven methodologies that help you harness external talent, protect intellectual property, and drive measurable results—so you can turn chaos into clarity and scale open innovation with confidence.

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So How HYPE's Open Innovation Solution Help You Thrive?

HYPE All-in-one open innovation software

1. Unify Scattered External Input

Provide a single, secure platform where employees, partners, customers, and experts can seamlessly contribute. No more siloed ideas—you capture and evaluate all insights in one place.

2. Strengthen Security & IP Protection

Leverage robust access controls, secure hosting, and governance features to safeguard sensitive information when collaborating with external parties, ensuring peace of mind.

HYPE Security & IP Software

3. Gain a Clear Path to ROI

Use comprehensive analytics to track idea progress, business impact, and cost-benefit metrics. Confidently demonstrate the value of open innovation to stakeholders and leadership.

4. Consolidate Fragmented Tools & Systems

Seamlessly integrate with existing enterprise platforms—like Microsoft Teams or project management tools—to maintain a unified, efficient workflow without juggling multiple solutions.

HYPE Open Innovation Software Integrations

5. Sustain Engagement Long-Term

Keep participants motivated with intuitive feedback loops, transparent updates, and best-practice workflows that show each contributor how their input drives real, tangible outcomes.

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Your Ideas Are Safe with Us

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HYPE adheres to the strictest information management and cloud security requirements in accordance with the international gold standard for data protection.

The World's Biggest Brands Use Hype for Open Innovation

"Transformative Collaboration Platform for Open Innovation"

HYPE Innovation has been an excellent partner in powering our Open Space Innovation Platform (OSIP). Their solution has enabled us to streamline idea collection and evaluation, fostering innovation across multiple stakeholder groups. The platform’s flexibility, intuitive user interface, and robust backend have been critical in managing a diverse range of innovation challenges efficiently. Thanks to HYPE Innovation, OSIP has become a key enabler for advancing research and development projects, identifying emerging trends, and driving collaboration within our organization and beyond.

Moritz F., Discovery & Preparation Officer

"An Invaluable Partner and a Real Extension of our Team!!!"

HYPE Innovation is an amazing All-in-one tool. It allowed us for the first time to materialize our whole Innovation Ecosystem and bring it to life. This offeref the opportunity to leverage this Ecosystem in the best possible way and expand it, collaborating seamlessly through the organization globally.

What's more though, is the team behine HYPE Innovation. A team of excellent professionals and great people, that help us in every need on the platform in a very fast and efficient way. This is why we deem this team not as a partner but as an extension of our Team.

M.K. Technology Incubator Expert

“We have always been hugely impressed with the HYPE team”

Ricoh’s passion for people and innovation has led us to partner with HYPE as we looked for a world-class ideas platform to capture our employees’ amazing ideas. We have always been hugely impressed with the HYPE team and their desire to deliver beyond our expectations.

Haroon Mohammed, Finance Director

“It’s a unique partnership that I truly value”

I’ve never had a question, challenge or concern that I’ve brought to HYPE that I didn’t walk away feeling that they provided me with the right tips and tools for my own innovation program, and therefore my own success. It’s a unique partnership that I truly value.

Sarah Kelly, Senior Innovation Manager

What You'll Get

Evaluation Kit: Handpicked materials—client success stories, benchmark reports, competitor comparisons, an on-demand demo video, and more.

Discovery Call: A quick chat with our Innovation Catalysts to understand your challenges and tailor the best approach.

What to Expect

Check Your Email: We’ll send your resources right away; make sure to opt in (GDPR) and check spam if needed.
Watch the Demo: Preview our solution in action (just the basics—save deeper questions for our call).
Review Your Materials: Dive into success stories and comparisons to get a clearer picture of our platform’s value.
Schedule Your Call: One of our team members will reach out to find the best time for your discovery session.
Assess Fit: If it’s a match for both sides, we’ll arrange a personalized demo focused on your specific needs.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Before we move on to the next stage, we know there are always a few “what-ifs” or “how-tos.” That’s why we’ve gathered answers to common questions below—so you can decide if HYPE is truly the right partner for your idea management goals.

What are your unique selling points?

As the recognized leader in innovation management software, HYPE has over 20 years of experience and has served more than 600 enterprise organizations globally. Our reputation is built on having the most capable product on the market, combined with industry-leading support and consulting available to ensure the success of your innovation efforts.

Here are the four key points that make our platform stand out from the rest:

1. End-to-End Innovation Platform:

Unlike competitors that focus solely on one or two parts of the process, the HYPE platform seamlessly integrates different modules, such as HYPE Ideation, HYPE Projects, and HYPE Trends & Technologies to support the entire innovation process—from strategy and idea collection to execution and measurement.

2. Smart AI Capabilities for Improved Quality, Efficiency & Automation:

HYPE is at the forefront of AI-driven innovation management, offering features such as AI Campaign Coach, AI Idea Coach, AI Idea Generation, and AI Triage to support your innovators and streamline every part of the innovation process, saving innovators time, their most valuable asset. What’s more, HYPE’s unique Innovation Graph automatically analyzes and visualizes your innovation landscape, unlocking unparalleled insights for making the right decisions for your future.

3. Enterprise-Grade Scalability & Security:

Designed for large organizations, and proven in the field, HYPE has a track record of supporting hundreds of thousands of users per instance while ensuring top-tier, ISO-certified, security and privacy. The platform also offers accessibility and internationalization features, including AI-powered translation and support for 20+ languages, enabling global collaboration at scale.

4. High Customizability & Flexibility:

HYPE provides unparalleled flexibility through configurable business rules, platform admin fields, and a lot more, allowing customers to change the functionality, UI, and access controls to meet their needs. HYPE Projects and HYPE Boards allow the customer to easily support an unlimited number of different phase-gate and agile processes to ensure every innovation process within the organization can easily be supported by the platform.

What AI features do you have?

HYPE uses AI across the entire end-to-end innovation process, from strategy and ideation to execution and measurement, to support innovators and improve quality and efficiency, as well as save time, the most valuable asset for any innovator. We are also continuing to invest heavily into making the future of Innovation Management AI-Driven.

To name a few the AI enabled features we already have, there’s the Innovation Graph, Idea Coach, Gen AI Idea Generation, AI Campaign Creation, Smart Campaign Cockpit, and a lot more.

To learn more about HYPE’s full AI capabilities and future AI roadmap, please book a demo.

Does it connect with our backend system(s)?

Of course! HYPE integrates with a wide variety of the most common enterprise systems out of the box and also has mature and well-documented APIs available to integrate with any other system. In our 20+ years of working with hundreds of large organizations, we’ve integrated HYPE with pretty much everything. You can use our integration capabilities by yourself, or have our experienced professional services team assist you in the process.

Is it easy to use?

Absolutely! HYPE is built for innovation at scale, and to achieve that, we’ve always prioritized user-friendliness in our design, ensuring that even those with minimal technical expertise can navigate and utilize the system effectively. With intuitive interfaces and guided workflows, getting started is quick and simple.

Would we have support without additional costs?

Yes. As a leader in the market, HYPE is extremely committed to the success of our customers, and we provide all of our subscription customers with complimentary access to our Silver Success Plan, which includes, for example, a Dedicated Customer Success Manager, advice from our industry-leading Innovation Consultants, and standard product support, and more, ensuring that you have access to assistance when you need it. However, we do also offer premium support options for those who prefer even more advanced or personalized support.

What are the features?

As HYPE’s platform covers the entire end-to-end innovation process, there are literally hundreds of features available to ensure you are well supported, regardless of your specific use case and requirements.

The HYPE platform is highly modular, so we make it easy for you to pick all the features and capabilities you need, but you can also start small and easily add more capabilities later if you’re not ready to take advantage of everything HYPE has to offer.

Our experienced Solution Consultants are happy to discuss your specific use cases, needs, and requirements and find a package tailored to your circumstances. Please contact our team to organize your introductory call and learn more.

How does your platform support workflow and process management?

The HYPE platform’s modular design, together with unparalleled flexibility provides our customers with nearly unlimited possibilities to support a wide variety of different processes across the organization, customize workflows, create business rules, and automate processes.

Whether you need to streamline project management, approvals, or customer journeys, we can provide you with the tools needed to help you optimize your innovation processes.

How does reporting look like? What can we do?

HYPE has extensive reporting capabilities directly on the platform, and also provides built-in integrations proven to work at scale for common Business Intelligence Platforms, such as Microsoft Power BI and Salesforce Tableau.

The prior is important to make sure your innovators always have the right metrics at hand to guide the day-to-day work and decision-making of innovators. However, the latter is also important as many organizations want to integrate their innovation metrics with their core business reporting, for example for Board and C-level reporting needs.

Does your platform integrate with other platforms?

How can you help us build a center of excellence around innovation?

Building a Center of Excellence (CoE) for Innovation requires a structured approach, best practices, and the right technology. HYPE can help by providing proven frameworks, best practices, a mature and capable, AI-supported platform, as well as expert guidance to streamline processes, foster collaboration, enable data-driven decisions, measure impact, and embed innovation activities deeply into your organization – ensuring scalable, sustainable, high-ROI innovation.