Fluid Innovation has been included in the list of “Cool Vendors” in the “Cool Vendors in Intellectual Property, 2008″ report by Gartner, Inc. Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

“We are honored to have Fluid Innovation selected by Gartner as a top vendor in intellectual property,” says Chris McKinzie, Fluid Innovation Founder and CEO. “Gartner not only has selected us as a leader, they share this opinion with our Fortune 500 and academic clients including:
Microsoft, Science Application International Corporation (SAIC), Boeing and Texas A&M, to name a few. We worked hard to study the hurdles facing this industry and develop processes and tools to leap those hurdles.”

Fluid Innovation offers the emerging intellectual property industry both a unique solution set to take their internally-developed innovations to market, but also the industry’s most comprehensive solutions to get the job done. These include:

• Innovation Enterprise – the Fluid Licensing System is a comprehensive licensing work-flow solution that takes innovation from the inventor’s desktop through approval and validation and then to market efficiently and fluidly.
• Virtual Ventures — combines prediction market science with mass collaboration into a compelling gaming format to quickly establish market value and viability on clients’ innovations.
• Fluid Innovation Marketplace — the intellectual property world’s largest and most efficient marketplace, which invites innovation sellers and buyers to come together — but more importantly, it invites the public to participate and monetize their own B2B social network.