NEXT-Incubator and Solved announce partnership to foster innovation through enhanced collaboration

NEXT-Incubator, the innovation arm of Energie-Steiermark AG, one of the largest energy service companies in Austria, has formed a partnership with Solved.

The aim of the partnership is to further foster innovation through enhanced collaboration and co-creation among its network and using a multidisciplinary approach by engaging relevant experts from the Solved’s global on-demand expert pool.

“Solved lets us be agile in how we work allowing us to build an optimal team for each challenge”, says Thomas Wiedner, Managing Director, Next Vertriebs- und Handels GmbH.

First challenges solved with NEXT-Incubator were related to IoT / risk management for municipalities and digitalising operations for renewable energy plants.

“Solved not only provide the access to its pool of 5000 experts, but also allows NEXT-Incubator to use its own white-label platform to better engage with its own experts and networks and combine that with Solved’s expert network and thus optimally and faster create value to its stakeholders”, says Santtu Hulkkonen, CEO & Co-founder of Solved.

In addition,

“NEXT-incubators’ experts can be listed on Solved platforms and they have access to other project, collaboration and networking opportunities within the Solved marketplace ecosystem, which are publicly available on the Solved expert marketplace”, concludes Hulkkonen.

With a strong network in the international startup and innovation community behind, NEXT-Incubator partners for both in-house and external customers for startup and incubator services, business development, product development and long-term project management.

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More information:

Santtu Hulkkonen, CEO & Co-founder of Solved, +358 50 373 2895, [email protected]

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