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Update on 8-Nov-18
| Program type | Deadline | ID | Title | Description |
| Grand Challenge | 12/12/2018 | 2018_0061 | K+S Brine Challenge | NineSigma, representing K+S, invites participants to submit proposals for the Brine Challenge. The goal is to find materials, coatings or any other material technology that can strongly reduce the brine production and/or protect the tailings from rainfall. The solutions ideally allow for permanent reduction/elimination of brine runoff. |
| Innovation Contest | 1/16/2019 | 2018_0162 | Recycling in Space Challenge: Waste Handling in a Microgravity Environment |
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) seeks proposals for technologies and systems that will, in a microgravity environment, store & transfer logistical mission waste to a thermal processing unit for decomposition. The technology will improve the environmental footprint of future human spacecraft. NASA is interested in proposals for all technologies capable of meeting the desired performance criteria and proposals from all qualified respondents, including university students. |
| Innovation Contest | 1/31/2019 | 2018_0172 | Transforming the Future of Self-Care Challenge | To sustain one‘s competitive advantage, a company needs to reduce development times and often that means finding solution from outside the company in other fields. Innovation Contests enable a sponsoring company to quickly identify a community of innovators who can focus on their specific technology challenge and provide solutions that can be acted upon, including working prototypes. An Innovation Contest employs integrated marketing and PR elements to signal to the global innovation community that the sponsoring company is committed to advancing their technology solutions and is open to collaboration. Topic 1: Digital Health Technologies >> Topic 2: At-Home Diagnostics >> Topic 3: Formulation Technologies >> |
| Innovation Gallery | 12/31/2018 | 2017_0001_N_024 | Groundbreaking Powder Application Technologies | PepsiCo seeks novel technologies for seasoning application on fabricated potato chips. |
| Innovation Gallery | 12/31/2018 | 2017_0001_N_023 | Powder Sterilization Technologies | PepsiCo seeks efficient and effective technologies to sterilize powdered seasonings without impacting performance characteristics. |
| Innovation Gallery | 12/31/2019 | 2017_0004_N_002 | Translucent Leather or Translucent Artificial Leather-like Foils | Yanfeng Automotive seeks a decorative cover stock for automotive interiors that looks and feels like leather but at the same time is translucent to transmission of a specific luminance of a specific wavelength of light. |
| Innovation Gallery | 12/31/2019 | 2017_0004_N_001 | Reconfigurable Nest to Hold an Assembly at Each Manufacturing Stage | Yanfeng Automotive seeks a universal nest that can hold an automotive interior component during assembly that can reconfigure on demand to hold a different-shaped component. |
| Innovation Gallery | 12/31/2019 | 2017_0004_N_032 | Transparent Glass-like Plastic | Yanfeng Automotive Seeks Films/Coatings which could be combined with a transparent plastic (such as acrylic or polycarbonate) to create a glass like part which provides glass like features such as cold touch, chemical and scratch resistance. |
| Innovation Gallery | 12/31/2019 | 2017_0004_N_018 | Stays Looking Clean Plastic Interior Surfaces | Yanfeng Automotive seeks interiors that have the ability to resist dirt/dust/oil accumulation. The Interior surface must always appear to be clean and must appear to be easy to clean. |
| Innovation Gallery | 12/31/2019 | 2017_0004_N_024 | A Formable Color Changing Light Technology | A thin, formable, and tunable light source that can be formed under a decorative surface material to illuminate the printed graphic image on the decorative surface |
| Innovation Gallery | 12/31/2019 | 2017_0004_N_020 | Surface Crosslinking of Polypropylene Copolymers using E-beam Technology | Yanfeng Automotive seeks methods to crosslink the surface of polypropylene copolymer, at a controlled depth, using electron beam technology |
| Innovation Gallery | 12/31/2018 | 2017_0001_N_032 | Novel Protein Sources | PepsiCo seeks new and novel protein sources for usage in their snacks and beverages. PepsiCo would like to achieve a protein level that provides a measurable positive impact for consumers while enabling a comparable consumer experience. |
| Innovation Gallery | 12/31/2018 | 2017_0001_N_037 | Multiphase Gas Separation Technology | PepsiCo seeks novel technologies for multiphase gas separation to enhance waste heat recovery during dehydration processes. |
| Innovation Gallery | 12/31/2018 | 2017_0001_N_051 | For all Packaging-related Technologies | PepsiCo seeks to identify new packaging-related technologies to improve their global operations. |
| Innovation Gallery | 12/31/2019 | 2017_0004_N_041 | Flexible, Cost-effective Heating Textiles or Foils | Yanfeng Automotive seeks flexible, cost-effective resilient heating system that can be formed and integrated into slightly curved or substantially non-planar interior surfaces. |
| Innovation Gallery | 11/9/2018 | 2017_0013_N_121 | Redesign of a Position Indicator Dial for a Voltage Regulator | Siemens is seeking the opportunities for a redesign of the current position indicator. The position indicator is used by line service workers to determine the position of the voltage regulator. |
| Innovation Gallery | 11/16/2018 | 2017_0015_N_006 | Technologies, Methods or Models For Microbiological Risk Assessment in Beverages | Suntory is looking for technologies, methods or models for microbiological risk assessment that can qualitatively and quantitatively detect, at an early stage in the product’s life, the various microbial signals which potentially occur and contribute to the product’s degradation. |
| Innovation Gallery | 11/16/2018 | 2017_0015_N_008 | Technologies to Capture Aromas During Food Production Processes (Cooking and Roasting) | Suntory is looking for the technologies or methods that can capture the aroma volatiles that occur during production processes such as cooking and roasting. |
| Innovation Gallery | 11/16/2018 | 2017_0015_N_009 | Preventing the Discoloration of Ready to Drink (RTD) Tea | Suntory is looking for the methods, materials, ingredients or technologies to develop a transparent RTD tea extract that does not discolour during the product’s life. |
| Innovation Gallery | 9/30/2019 | 2018_0091_N_001 | EnzoMeal ® | EnzoMeal®, an improved soybean meal, removes oligosaccharides and increases crude protein. EnzoMeal® represents a breakthrough product for use in commercially derived feed in a high value, well-recognized aquaculture species such as rainbow trout. Efforts to find suitable, more sustainable replacement proteins for fish meal have intensified, and the need to increase the inclusion levels of soybean meal in aqua feed formulations has escalated as well. EnzoMeal® provides aquaculture farmers a sustainable, long-term, economically viable healthy solution. |
| Innovation Gallery | 9/30/2019 | 2018_0091_N_022 | Soy-PK Resin | OSC seeks organizations interested in using soy-PK, a soy-based resin, in commercial applications such as adhesives, coatings, plastics, and elastomers. |
| Innovation Gallery | 9/30/2019 | 2018_0091_N_011 | Funding for Commercial Companies to Develop Soy-Based Products | If your organization is looking into using soybeans in a new product, the Ohio Soybean Council (OSC) wants to talk to you.OSC offers funding to commercial entities, from start-ups to large corporations, developing soy-based products, including both food and non-food applications. Several enterprises have gotten a leg up, thanks to OSC funding, connections, experience, and promotional support (see Background for examples). OSC seeks to broaden its collaborations to support new innovative concepts that leverage the soybean’s versatility. |
| Innovation Gallery | 2/15/2019 | 2018_0091_N_021 | Seeking Industrial Applications for High-Oleic Soybean Oil | The Ohio Soybean Council seeks collaborators interested in co-developing industrial applications using high-oleic soybean oil. |
| Innovation Gallery | 12/21/2018 | 2018_0091_N_002 | Seeking Manufacturer for Soy-Based Resin | The Ohio Soybean Council seeks partners who can manufacture scaled quantities of Soy-PK resin to enable supply of lab-scale and pilot scale quantities. |
| Innovation Gallery | 12/7/2018 | 2017_0013_N_122 | IoT Sensor Node for the Process Automation with ATEX Zone 1 Approval | Siemens Process Instrumentation is seeking a Multi-Sensor Node which is ready for ATEX Zone 1 with a flexible architecture design. The aim is to address the emerging new markets based on IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) in the process automation. This involves monitoring and optimization of already installed assets in the brownfield, for example by services based on predictive maintenance. |
| Innovation Gallery | 12/7/2018 | 2017_0013_N_131 | IoT Smart Measurement Sensor | Siemens Process Instrumentation is seeking a distance/filling level sensor solution which is battery powered and explosion protected (ATEX Zone 1). The aim is to address the emerging markets based on Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in the process automation. This involves monitoring and optimizing of inventory in the process automation. Here, the distance to dry dusty solids and liquids has to be measured. |
| Innovation Gallery | 12/7/2018 | 2017_0013_N_132 | Battery Pack with Balancing Electronics | Siemens is seeking a 24V – LiFePO4-battery pack with balancing and protection electronics in an overall plastic enclosure with approximately 1…3Ah |
| Innovation Gallery | 12/2/2018 | 2017_0013_N_133 | Spherical Filling Material for Epoxy Resin | Siemens is searching for a material which fulfils the following specifications: ・Specific particle size standard distribution d(0,1)=150μm, d(0,5)=300μm, d(0,9)=500μm ・Specific materials: aluminium oxide (>98%) or magnesium oxide (>=98%) or boron nitride (>=98%) |