Colspark

Business type

Open Innovation

Service/product description

Colspark seeks to foster greater collaboration between academia and businesses. They strive to give college students a platform to differentiate themselves to companies. Companies can upload their challenges on to the platform and students can come up with ideas.

What does 'openness' mean in this case?

It’s a market place for companies and students where both benefit from participating. Companies have rights to confidentiality, while participating students can be rest assured that their intellectual property is protected. Besides it also helps students to present themselves to future employers in a new, more creative way. But most important to the platform is to create open collaborations between universities and companies.