About us

The HYVE Innovation Community GmbH is a young enterprise based in Munich which is specialized on the conception, realization and the management of innovation- and co-creation-communities for users and employees.

With the help of our community solutions creative potential and collective knowledge of different user-groups like consumers, employees, providers, experts or developers can be used for the innovation process. Besides the tool for idea management we offer the conduction of idea and design contests. In doing so, we take on the buildup and the management of a lively and creative community.

Our community platform allows the use of user-generated-content for different tasks along the value added chain, e.g. generation of authentic advertising contents, distribution of products, generation of stars, the creative design of touch points, support of parties or the organization of events.

History

The HYVE Innovation Community GmbH is a subsidiary of the HYVE Corporation: in the year 2000 HYVE set off with the vision of a novel innovation process which connects users, customers, providers and developers via Internet and thereby enables the collaborative development of customer centric and trailblazing innovations. We remained true to this mission since then. Within 8 years HYVE has established itself as the leading innovation agency and its services are occupied by well-known companies far beyond the borders of Germany. Some of the clients are Adidas, Audi, BMW, Burda, Doppelmayr, Müller Milch, Nokia, Sparda, Verival, Swisscom & Spar.

Because of continuous research and more than 100 publications HYVE made a name for itself in the area of science and is considered as innovation pioneer, leader in the field of co-creation and founder of community based innovation. HYVE is not only considering itself as a mediator between users and companies but also as intermediary between research and praxis. The intellectual exchange with leading universities like the University of Innsbruck, the RHTW Aachen and the MIT in Boston, allows the utilization of the latest scientific findings. In return the practical application of the theoretical approach serves for the validation and continuous improvement of theory.

The increasing impact and the growing influence of Web 2.0 and online communities induced us to establish the Innovation Community GmbH with the purpose of focusing completely on the realization and the buildup of innovation- and co-creation communities.

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