Colgate Open Innovation Challenge: "On-the-Go" Oral Health

Request Number: 183433 | Author: Colgate-Palmolive

Description

Colgate is seeking oral health solutions that can be used anytime/anywhere as a supplement to consumers' oral health routines. These solutions should make oral health more effective and easier but will not be utilized as a substitute to toothbrushing.

Background

Due to increasingly busy lives, taking care of one's oral health can be a challenge. The paradigm of 2x/day brushing as the ONLY oral health intervention has proven to be insufficient given that half of the world's population is affected by oral disease (http://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/oral-health).

Key Success Criteria

Efficacious for therapeutic and cosmetic benefits (e.g. a clean and fresh mouth), easy to use/consumer friendly, cost effective

Possible Approaches

Novel oral health formats (e.g. chewable forms); packaging to enhance the delivery of oral health products

Development Stage

Solution should have a viable prototype/proof of concept with IP

Approaches not of interest

Theoretical ideas that have not been reduced to practice, very expensive device-based solutions

Preferred Collaboration types

To partner with a start-up company, entrepreneur, university, etc. that has a developed solution and ideally, manufacturing capability

Colgate-Palmolive Open Innovation Portal

The Colgate-Palmolive open innovation submission portal is where you can submit your ideas and innovations to our strategic challenges. yet2 manages the portal and will serve as a consistent point of contact for you during the submission process. All the information you provide in these initial stages should be publicly available and imposes no obligation of confidentiality for Colgate or any of its brands. If your unique idea or innovation passes our screening criteria, your details will be passed on to the appropriate team for further detailed, internal review. If we decide to move forward with your submission, we will ask you to sign a separate, further agreement with us so that any confidential information that is subsequently shared is protected.