Activating Human Intelligence To Grow Value

Wazoku's unique combination of human & synthetic intelligence enables enterprises, public sector organizations or academic institutions to discover opportunities, access external expertise, manage innovation portfolios, commercialize IP, track value creation or simply outsource for a specific outcome.

Wazoku
Total Innovation

Flexible solution for every organisation

Whether you're a global enterprise, government body, NGO, research lab, or academic institution — our Total Innovation solution is built to power increased value generation at every scale.

  • · AI-powered trend scanning
  • · Technology radar mapping
  • · Emerging signal detection
  • · Competitive intelligence
  • · Patent and IP landscape
  • · Idea capture and crowdsourcing
  • · Portfolio prioritisation
  • · Initiative tracking
  • · Stage-gate workflows
  • · Value pipeline management
  • · Startup discovery and screening
  • · Ecosystem relationship management
  • · Partnership pipeline
  • · Due diligence tools
  • · Cohort management
  • · Expected value (xV) scoring
  • · Risk-adjusted prioritisation
  • · Strategic alignment mapping
  • · ROI forecasting
  • · Board-ready reporting
  • · Real-time portfolio dashboards
  • · Innovation ROI tracking
  • · Executive reporting suite
  • · Custom KPI frameworks
  • · Benchmarking analytics
  • · Managed challenge programmes
  • · Expert solver networks
  • · Full programme delivery
  • · Measurable outcome contracts
  • · End-to-end programme management
Explore all our capabilities
Identify trends and technologies
Capture, prioritise, and manage initiatives
Scout startups and manage ecosystem relationships
Unique value-based evaluation
Sector-leading analytics & reporting
Outcome-driven outsourcing

Platform

Wazoku.ai

The Ecosystem Operating System

The intelligent platform that connects discovery, engagement, collaboration, governance, and value measurement in one place. It's the infrastructure layer that turns fragmented innovation activity into a connected, measurable, and scalable programme.

Marketplace

Innocentive

Your Global R&D Accelerator

The world's largest innovation accelerator — combining synthetic intelligence and a human ecosystem of over 1,000,000+ solvers, startups, subject matter experts, and a marketplace of existing IP and inventions. 25 years' experience of accelerating value.

Services

Value-Added Services

Your Innovation Delivery Partner

We take on the work most organisations don't have the bandwidth, reach, or specialist capability to do themselves. Every engagement is scoped to a specific result, staffed by a dedicated team, and powered by our AI platform and global ecosystem.

Innovation matrix

For every type of innovation

Innovation isn't one thing. Click each quadrant to see how our services map to your level of ambition

Markets → Capabilities →

Selected quadrant

Continuous Improvement

Optimising your existing products and services for your current markets using the capabilities you already have. Portfolio Governance quantifies ROI and surfaces risk. Market Intelligence tracks competitive shifts in your core market. Innovation Intelligence keeps the whole system sharp.

Relevant services

Portfolio Governance Market Intelligence Innovation Intelligence

Incremental Innovation

Serving your current markets with new-to-you but existing capabilities. Solution Development engineers solver concepts into implementation-ready plans. Market Intelligence validates demand and competitive positioning. Portfolio Governance scores each concept against your investment criteria. Market Validation ensures evidence before commitment.

Relevant services

Solution Development Market/Venture Validation Market Intelligence Portfolio Governance

Adjacent Innovation

Expanding into established markets you don't yet serve, or applying your capabilities in new directions. Market Intelligence maps the landscape and sizes the opportunity. Startup Scouting finds the right partners. Events & Pitches bring external talent to your problems. Portfolio Governance ensures you're backing the right bets.

Relevant services

Startup Scouting Events & Pitches Market Intelligence Portfolio Governance

Disruptive or Transformative Innovation

Pursuing brand-new markets with brand-new or embryonic capabilities — the highest-risk, highest-reward quadrant. Ecosystem Creation builds sustained networks at national scale. Market Intelligence scans for the emerging signals that seed transformative opportunities. Portfolio Governance applies rigorous expected-value scoring to keep bold bets disciplined.

Relevant services

Ecosystem Creation Events & Pitches Innovation Intelligence Market Intelligence Portfolio Governance

Why Total Innovation?

Innovation fails because it's disconnected. Total Innovation connects it.

Most organisations innovate across disconnected tools, siloed teams, and incompatible processes. Scouting in one place. R&D in another. Strategy somewhere else. Every handoff loses learning. Every silo hides value.

Our Total Innovation approach combines Wazoku.ai — our intelligent platform — with Innocentive, our global marketplace of startups, solutions, synthetic intelligence and subject matter experts. Together they turn fragmented innovation activity into a connected, measurable, and scalable capability.

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Testimonials

Don't just take our word for it

Hear from the organisations that trust Wazoku to power their innovation.

  • Waitrose

    "Using a system that allows any Partner, working anywhere in our business, whether driving a van, restocking shelves, or managing the marketing POS, to submit an idea is very important. The Wazoku idea management platform gives us exactly that."

    Stuart Eames

    Stuart Eames

    Retail Innovation Lead, Waitrose

  • UKWIR

    "We wanted to go beyond our usual cohort of specialists and invite solutions from a potentially unlimited pool of people. In the end, we got brand new thinking with over 50 high quality and original solutions."

    Steve Whipp

    Project Manager, UKWIR

  • General Fusion

    "As a scientific company, we are experimental by nature, and we wanted to experiment with crowdsourcing to see what kind of ideas we could get by going outside our organization and the more traditional avenues of problem solving."

    Brendan Cassidy

    Open Innovation Manager, General Fusion

  • NASA

    "The winning submission was very thorough. It addresses the Challenge requirements and exceeds them with respect to forecast confidence and random prediction. Questions posed back to the Solver were thoroughly addressed."

    Dr. Dan Fry

    Scientist, Space Radiation Analysis Group. NASA

  • Aviva

    "Wazoku.ai's portfolio governance tools gave our leadership team real-time visibility for the first time. We moved from quarterly spreadsheet reviews to a live dashboard that everyone trusts. That shift in confidence alone accelerated decision-making significantly."

    Richard Wilkinson

    Innovation Manager, Aviva

Interested in taking part in an Open Innovation Challenge?

Visit our platform Visit the Innocentive website to learn more

Latest Challenges on Innocentive

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Wazoku Crowd Challenge

Create a Distinctive Sonic Identity for the University of East London

Closing date: 1st Nov 2026

Award: £1,000

Wazoku Crowd Challenge

Global Prize for Innovation in Water (GPIW) 2026

Closing date: 30th Sep 2026

Award: $800,000

Wazoku Crowd Challenge

Starbucks Global Cold Cup Innovation Challenge

Closing date: 14th Sep 2026

Award: $100,000

Wazoku Crowd Challenge

Solutions for Landfill Mining and Enhanced Landfill Mining Across the Value Chain

Closing date: 11th Sep 2026

Award: Collaboration with A2A

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