Unlock Solutions From Outside Your Walls
Run open innovation challenges with unlimited participants, ideas, teams, mentors, and evaluation rounds.
Create a Branded Innovation Challenge Hub
Collect Unlimited Ideas, Concepts & Solutions
Enable Teamwork & Collaboration
Use Workspaces and Platforms to organize all your innovation initiatives in one ecosystem - giving innovators, startups, partners, and departments a single place to discover, browse, and apply to the challenges meant for them.
Create a Branded Innovation Challenge Hub
Publish your challenge statement, goals, themes, instructions, eligibility, and timelines - all on a clean, customized page.
- Custom landing pages for each challenge
- Challenge statements & briefs
- Tracks & problem categories
- Resources & supporting materials
- Multi-language support
Open Innovation Hub
Brand & appearance
Platform name
Custom domain
Palette
Collect Unlimited Ideas, Concepts & Solutions
Invite individuals, startups, students, experts, or teams to submit ideas and proposals.
- Unlimited idea submissions
- Drag-and-drop submission forms
- File uploads (videos, slides, prototypes, documents)
- Team or individual submissions
- Conditional logic
- Automatic confirmations
Open Innovation Hub
Idea board
IdeaZero-waste packaging line
AI triage for support tickets
Community solar co-op
Onboarding in 24 hours
Enable Teamwork & Collaboration
Support real team-building around ideas.
- Participant directories
- Skill tags
- Collaboration support
Open Innovation Hub
Participants
InviteManage Multi-Phase Innovation Evaluation
Structure your evaluation across ideation, concept development, feasibility, and pilot readiness.
- Multi-round evaluation
- Rubric-based scoring
- Weighted criteria
- Technical & feasibility reviews
- Side-by-side comparison
- Blind review mode
- AI-powered pre-screening
Open Innovation Hub
Rounds & stages
RoundRound type
Opens
Closes
Advance rules
Top 20% by average score
Notify qualified automatically
Carry answers into next round
Support Mentorship, Sprints & Prototype Development
Because innovation isn’t just about ideas - it’s about execution.
- Sprint phases & milestones
- Mentor assignments & feedback
- Deliverable submissions
- Task and progress tracking
- Prototype validation
- Pilot selection workflows
Open Innovation Hub
Sessions & bookings
SlotMentor hour · Amina R.
Tue 10:00 – 10:30
Pitch clinic · Daniel O.
Wed 14:00 – 14:45
Office hours · Priya R.
Thu 09:00 – 09:30
Availability
Synced with Google Meet & Zoom
Automate Communication Across Every Stage
Keep participants, mentors, and judges informed without manual effort.
- Stage updates
- Shortlisting emails
- Mentor notifications
- Sprint reminders
- Feedback requests
- Pilot invitations
- Final announcements
Open Innovation Hub
Automated messages
MessageApplication received
Sent instantly on submit
Deadline in 48 hours
Scheduled reminder
You've been shortlisted
Triggered on round advance
Feedback published
Triggered on score release
Track Innovation Performance & Impact
Analyze participation, idea quality, reviewer behavior, and final outcomes.
- Submission analytics
- Category & track breakdown
- Scoring & ranking insights
- Participation demographics
- Reviewer activity
- Sprint & prototype progress
- Exportable reports
Open Innovation Hub
Program analytics
Applicants
1,482
Completion
85%
Avg. score
7.9
By track
Energy 34%
Health 26%
Education 22%
By region
EMEA 41%
Americas 33%
APAC 26%
Types of Open Innovation Programs You Can Run on Untap
Global open innovation calls
Public/citizen innovation programs
Corporate innovation challenges
Industry innovation sprints (health, finance, education, energy, etc.)
Multi-round competitive innovation programs
Startup innovation challenges
University & student open innovation
Sustainable development innovation
Startup partnerships & pilot discovery
Hybrid Recognition + Voting ProgramsFeatured initiative
Mint Platform
MINT by EG Bank is a dedicated innovation & startup platform built using Untap, showcasing multiple programs and initiatives designed to support talent and ventures in Egypt.
EG Bank - Egypt
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Capabilities used to run this
Nothing below is an add-on. These jobs are part of the same 192-capability platform, included on every plan.
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Organisations
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