Nature is wise. It knows that new growth is essential for survival. This website honors the way in which nature ensures the growth of future generations. Living creatures have been designed to be efficient, parsimonious and not wasteful. Yet, all living creatures produce an abundance of seeds, far beyond what will ever be expected to survive. Businesses can learn from this.

Open Innovators is focused on helping clients explore more and spend less. Living creatures create millions of seeds because the cost of each seed is low and the potential of each seed is high. You would never see an oak tree create just one acorn, nor would you ever see a frog lay just one egg. Let Open Innovators show you how to explore more and risk less. Growth… simplified.

Open innovation is a term used to describe a practice whereby companies look beyond their four walls for new ideas, new technology and new intellectual property so that they can create more value for their customers at a lower cost and in quicker time.

We are a collective of passionate innovators, technologists, and researchers who adhere to a set of core business tenets - actively collaborating in the development of new products and technologies.

Our mission is to create a safe and professional innovation environment where industry partners can realize win-win breakthrough solutions through the brilliance found in the outside world.

We collaborate in both traditional consulting arrangements, as well as open collaborative arrangements where we bear greater risk and responsibilities for project completion. In other words – we can partner in fee-for-service consulting arrangements, co-development projects, or in/out license arrangements.

We nurture a portfolio of socially-conscious projects that are internally supported through a mix of our own venture fund together with outside grants and collaborator investments.

Over the years, we have worked in the following areas: