15 November 2009

hypios announces a multi-year partnership with Foundation Pierre Gilles de Gennes (Foundation PGG).

Founded in 2007, the Foundation PGG was named after Nobel prize-winning physicist Pierre Gilles de Gennes, who helped establish the foundation. Today it is an interdisciplinary research mega-cluster that weds 140 teams and over 1500 researchers in the hard sciences, particularly biotechnology.

Together hypios and Foundation PGG aim to boost the reach and impact of the foundation’s research program by designing a powerful research platform for public-private partnerships.

Foundation PGG hopes to leverage hypios’ advanced problem-recommendation and competency-matching technology to identify partnership opportunities between small- and medium- size businesses that do not otherwise have access to world-class researchers and teams. It also seeks to increase the inter- and trans-disciplinary cooperation that is the Foundation’s hallmark.

Finally, building a shared proprietary platform with hypios will allow the Foundation to formulate and explore the research challenges of potential private-sector partners in order to identify key areas for partnerships.  Focusing on what they call “BioConvergence,” the interstices of nano-, bio-, med- and info- technology, Foundation PGG will identify and promote interdisciplinary research opportunities with the objective of super-charging innovations in the field.

hypios expects the partnership to yield considerable developments in research outcomes and organizational design.

“This partnership is perfect for hypios, both on account of our own research backgrounds and the fact that our technologies and techniques are designed with the same sort of problems in mind as those the Foundation faces. In addition to sharing our expertise, we will be able to see first-hand how our mechanism changes the way that research is done. More importantly, it will advance our own understanding of the technologies that make these kinds of exchanges possible,” said Chief Scientific Officer Simone De Liberato of hypios.

More information about Foundation PGG is available in the slideshow below.

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About Hypios
Hypios combines intelligent crowdsourcing, competency discovery technology, and human outreach to deliver an optimal open problem-solving service. “Seekers” post R&D problems to the network and select a deadline and a price for the successful “Solver.” Hypios, which draws from a network of 950,000 experts across the world, has been solving R&D problems for global companies since 2008.

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