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Innovation challenges


We connect businesses, startups, and innovators through structured hackathons and innovation challenges—solving real-world business problems, accelerating ideas, and creating lasting impact.

Is your organization struggling with inertia that slows down innovation? Are your teams unfamiliar with emerging technologies? Is a rapidly evolving market challenging your competitive edge?

At IECC, we provide tailored support to help businesses foster a culture of innovation. Our solutions enable you to stay ahead of industry trends, rethink business models, and build agile, future-ready innovation processes.

Innovation Challenges - How It Works

Your Innovation Journey with IECC: Solving Business Challenges Through Innovation.

We offer a customizable and results-driven framework, allowing you to define challenge objectives, engage the right talent, and validate solutions through real-world testing. Whether you're looking to optimize processes, explore new technologies, or foster a culture of innovation, our tailored programs align with your strategic goals.

We follow a structured process to ensure that innovation challenges lead to real impact.

  • Technology acquisition opportunities
  • Market insights & trends
  • Potential partnerships & collaborations
  • Problem statement & challenge tracks
  • Target segment & prize design
  • IP considerations, timeline, budget, & deliverables
  • Bootcamp structure
  • Mentor & judge selection
  • Challenge activities & milestones
  • Recruiting innovators & participants
  • Idea scoring & filtration
  • Onboarding & mentorship (business, tech, and pitching)
  • Judging & winner selection
  • Prize awards & IP transfer

Our Clients

Corporations & Enterprises

Drive innovation in your company. Solve critical business challenges, explore new technologies, and collaborate with top innovators.

Government & Public Sector

Support national innovation strategies. Foster digital transformation, engage local talent, and drive impactful solutions.

Frequenty Asked Questions

An innovation challenge is a structured competition where businesses collaborate with startups, researchers, and innovators to solve specific industry problems, explore emerging technologies, and drive impactful solutions.

Our challenges are open to startups, SMEs, researchers, students, and professionals with innovative ideas or solutions that align with the challenge objectives.

By participating, your company can gain access to innovative solutions, identify high-potential startups, accelerate innovation, and stay ahead in a competitive market.

The duration varies based on the scope of the challenge, but typically ranges from a few weeks to several months, including scoping, scouting, mentoring, and final presentations.

Participants receive mentorship, access to industry experts, networking opportunities, and potential funding or partnership opportunities with corporations.

Winning ideas may receive incubation support, IP transfer or direct corporate engagement to further develop and implement their solutions.

Get in touch with us to discuss your business needs, and we’ll customize a challenge framework that aligns with your strategic goals.

Contact us—we’re happy to help!