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Collaborative Innovation program

Collectively developing a shared approach to make a sustainable impact together

Our collaborative innovation program is a bold initiative to accelerate and scale more sustainable solutions for the paints and coatings industry with external partners. Initially open to only startups, we quickly expanded to embrace suppliers and other value chain partners.

Our goal is to create transparency across the value chain with trusted collaborative partners to  pinpoint barriers and define possible solutions to achieve our common targets towards a more sustainable future in the paints and coatings industry.

Find more information below about the program or click the buttons for our previous challenges and our innovate with us channel to see how we can paint the future together.

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About the program

We launched our collaborative innovation program in 2019, initiating a variety of programs to accelerate innovation in a win-win mode and bring new solutions to our customers. It’s all about connecting what we know with what we don’t know yet.

Initially open to only startups, we quickly expanded to embrace suppliers and other value chain partners. Because we built on our shared success, our ecosystem has continued to grow and strengthen, making this bold initiative the largest in the industry.

1 Global innovation ecosystem
10.234 program participants
1.419 vetted proposals
29 Collaborations launched
4.9 star rating
150+ active countries

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Whether you are a start-up, scale-up, supplier, customer or researcher, if you have an innovative solution that you want to further develop with AkzoNobel, please connect with us.

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No great thing was ever created alone. We run a variety of programs to accelerate innovation in a win-win mode and bring new solutions to our customers. 

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