Wellspring

Covalent Data is the leader in innovation intelligence, featuring the world’s most comprehensive and accurate collection of content illuminating the global innovation landscape. By stitching together disparate sets of public and private data, we make it possible to trace the journey of invention from the earliest stages of research through successful commercialization. We enable researchers to showcase their expertise, institutions to market their assets, foundations to evaluate grant applicants, and licensing professionals to discover groundbreaking technologies. Through the Covalent Data platform, all participants in the innovation ecosystem can efficiently track trends, analyze opportunities, and connect with each other.

Originally created in 2003 by the University of British Columbia, Flintbox emerged as the foundation for open innovation software tools and the leading intellectual property exchange. Wellspring acquired Flintbox in 2010 and has transformed the system into a state-of-the art, intuitive software platform that combines Wellspring’s global network of research institutions with the feedback and experience of the Flintbox members. Our new release creates a collaborative community with over 17,000 registered users and over 500 different organizations across six continents. Wellspring relaunched the new Flintbox in April 2010 as a platform for developing relationships and driving collaboration in the innovation community. Wellspring releases new features and functionality suggested by companies, universities, independent innovators, and others as part of our user-driven development process.