The first InnoCentive challenge asked problem-solvers to design a network populated by innovators and influencers in the arts and culture, education, finance, media, and science and technology. The award-winning submissions informed our development of the N Square Innovators Network.

Geopolitical instability amplifies the risk of both accidental and intentional nuclear disaster, yet the US and other nations continue to invest in next-generation nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, nuclear weapons are barely on most people’s radar. In the second InnoCentive challenge we asked problem-solvers for ideas for getting civil society to take action that will lead to policy change.

The US government and private-sector businesses share an interest in ensuring that bad actors don’t access nuclear knowledge and dual-use goods for nefarious purposes. Our partner in the third InnoCentive challenge, the Stimson Center, asked solvers to design information-sharing platforms whereby private industry could identify and share suspect information to prevent foreign based individuals, corporations, terrorist groups, or governments from acquiring US technologies to build weapons of mass destruction.