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Stimulate your intellectual curiosity with the latest technology
Open Innovation Council (OI Council) is a platform for an expert community where you, as a member, give advice and ideas to NineSigma’s clients about their cutting-edge prototypes, business ideas, or challenges through short surveys. It is a great opportunity for you to stimulate your intellectual curiosity about the newest technologies and offer ideas based on your knowledge and experience.
Share your expert advice and ideas to over 850 top global innovative companies by completing surveys!
Paid online survey platform for open innovation.
Experts from a wide range of industries interested in prototypes, ideas and challenges at the forefront of innovation to further enhance the community and offer your ideas for projects on a global scale.
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Stimulate your intellectual curiosity with the latest technology
Open Innovation Council (OI Council) is a platform for an expert community where you, as a member, give advice and ideas to NineSigma’s clients about their cutting-edge prototypes, business ideas, or challenges through short surveys. It is a great opportunity for you to stimulate your intellectual curiosity about the newest technologies and offer ideas based on your knowledge and experience.
Share your expert advice and ideas to over 850 top global innovative companies by completing surveys!
Paid online survey platform for open innovation.
Experts from a wide range of industries interested in prototypes, ideas and challenges at the forefront of innovation to further enhance the community and offer your ideas for projects on a global scale.
Previous
Next
Stimulate your intellectual curiosity with the latest technology
Open Innovation Council (OI Council) is a platform for an expert community where you, as a member, give advice and ideas to NineSigma’s clients about their cutting-edge prototypes, business ideas, or challenges through short surveys. It is a great opportunity for you to stimulate your intellectual curiosity about the newest technologies and offer ideas based on your knowledge and experience.
Share your expert advice and ideas to over 850 top global innovative companies by completing surveys!
Paid online survey platform for open innovation.
Experts from a wide range of industries interested in prototypes, ideas and challenges at the forefront of innovation to further enhance the community and offer your ideas for projects on a global scale.
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Next

The 4 Benefits of being a member​

Keep to date with the latest advances in technology

Use your expertise within a community of innovators

Interact with other expert members worldwide

Gain a sense of validation by having your feedback rated

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How OIC works

1. Click the “Become a Memebr” button to register.

2. Edit your Profile on the member site.

3. Receive survey notifications

4. Answer surveys on the OIC website.

5. Receive OIC Pointd and exchange for gift cards.

Testimony

Kevin Cyr M.D.
Stanford University / Physician and Bioengineer
United States

"The OI Council provides a great technical perspective and I always look forward to attending!"

“Open Innovation Council (OI Council) brings leading experts from multiple fields together to provide advice and insight on leading problems. It is rare to have so many experts in one place, especially with many providing insight from global settings around the world. The NineSigma platform provides incredible perspective on a vast array of new technologies and products and I always look forward to participating!”
Funda Akalin
Automotive / Strategic Planning Manager
Chemical Engineer
Turkey

"OI Council is a great win-win platform to bring together qualified experts with product developers"

“OI Council offers an innovation solution by bringing together high qualified experts with product developers via the ecosystem. Experts, who are part of the ecosystem, gain insight into the new topics and products being studied in their areas of expertise at an early stage, while product developers can seek advice on creative solutions from experts from all over the world. A great win-win platform for everyone!”

M.K.

Biotechnology/ Research Scientist
United States

"The surveys are informative and the research questions state-of-the art."

It has been very rewarding to share my experiences in the field with other departments and/or companies. The surveys I have received were often informative and the research questions state-of-the art. I would however like to receive more feedback or additional questions to help out more, for example with specific tools or questions.

O.S.

Construction / Technical Manager
Ukraine

"For me, answering to the OI Council survey is to explore a new upcoming technology."​

For me answering to the survey is a possibility to explore a new upcoming technology and advice developers how to apply those technologies in my field of expertise. I believe for the developers it is also beneficial to have a feedback from the people with different backgrounds on the possibility to apply their technology.

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FAQs

Anyone with professional knowledge (regardless of field) and experience in science and technology can participate. Since the topics of the survey are diverse, you can make use of the knowledge you have learned in the past and in your previous job or educational institutions. It is free to participate in and there is an examination period after your application.

It depends on your expertise and actual themes of our surveys based on our clients’ request. In general, we always have various themes and topics for our surveys. You will be notified of the survey at most 3 times a week. If you do not receive surveys often, please add your Expertise Tag. You can also add Expertise Tags based on your previous occupations and academic careers, if you want to expand the area where you can answer.

Rewards for surveys and Follow-Ups (additional text-based communication with clients after surveys) will be given as OIC Points that can be exchanged for gift cards. The OIC points can be exchanged for a variety of gift cards depending on the currency of each country.

OI Council cannot be held responsible for the confidential information of the member’s company. Please answer only with content that does not include confidential information of your company. If you cannot answer with only publicly known information, please opt-out the answer.

The regulation and rules of external activity are different for each company. We leave it to your judgment according to the regulation your affiliated company.

NineSigma’s expertise is to find what may be unknown to you & to connect you to new partners, start-ups, academia, SMEs and large companies across industries. Through our worldwide presence and our global science & technology network, NineSigma helps transform your business through technology and innovation in a faster, more agile way.

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