Thomson Reuters Names 48 NineSigma Clients to Top 100 Global Innovators List
Organizations are Commercializing Inventions and Contributing to Economic Growth
CLEVELAND, Dec. 9, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- NineSigma, the leading innovation partner to organizations worldwide, today announced that 48 of its clients have been named to the Thomson Reuters 2014 Top 100 Global Innovators list.
According to Thomson Reuters, these 100 organizations are "leading the world in turning creative ideas into protected, commercialized inventions and demonstrating that investment in innovation leads to economic success." They "drive new breakthroughs, create jobs, and ignite our global economy."
The NineSigma clients on this year's list are headquartered in Japan, the U.S., Europe and South Korea. They represent 15 different industries, with the largest concentrations in the industrial, consumer products, automotive, computer hardware, pharmaceutical, and chemical sectors.
NineSigma specializes in open innovation (OI), which empowers organizations to reach beyond their networks to a worldwide community of scientific and technical experts, tapping solutions and technologies that can be integrated into R&D, marketing and business development processes. This strategy helps accelerate the development of new products and services so they can be launched into the market faster.
"We are delighted to help our clients maintain their market leadership through open innovation," said Andy Zynga, CEO of NineSigma. "OI has become a proven strategy for speeding the commercialization of groundbreaking products, improving companies' financial performance, and strengthening their brands."
According to Thomson Reuters, the 2014 Top 100 Global Innovators outperformed the S&P 500 for the fourth consecutive year, generated the equivalent of $3.69 trillion in revenue in 2013, and increased their year-over-year R&D spend by about 17 percent.
About NineSigma
NineSigma connects organizations with external innovation resources to accelerate innovation in private, public and social sectors. The company provides open innovation services to organizations worldwide, including GE, Siemens, Roche, Under Armour and Johnson Controls, to solve immediate challenges, integrate new knowledge, fill product pipelines, and stay ahead of the competition. Named to the 2014 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private U.S. companies, NineSigma's proprietary process has produced billions of dollars in value for its clients. NineSigma has the largest open global network of solution providers and an extensive database of existing solutions spanning numerous industries and technical disciplines. NineSigma's online innovation community, NineSights®, is the world's first open innovation social media destination, connecting innovators of all sizes with resources and relationships to drive growth. Learn more at www.ninesigma.com or www.ninesights.com.
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