Innovation Studio

Innovation Studio is Microsoft’s AI-powered innovation management platform, built to help organizations discover ideas, form high‑impact teams, and turn innovation into measurable outcomes.

WHY INNOVATION STUDIO

Unlock Innovation Across Your Organization

Make innovation everyone’s job. Innovation Studio gives every employee a place to contribute ideas, join projects, and collaborate across organizational boundaries – while giving leaders visibility into where innovation is happening and how to accelerate it.

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Turn ideas into impact—at scale

Originally created to power the Microsoft Global Hackathon, Innovation Studio now enables organizations to run innovation programs year‑round—securely, at scale, and with enterprise‑grade insight.

Innovation Studio gives every employee a place to contribute ideas, join projects, and collaborate across organizational boundaries—while giving leaders visibility into where innovation is happening and how to accelerate it.
Unlike point solutions for single events, Innovation Studio captures the full lifecycle of innovation—from ideation and team formation to delivery, judging, and post‑event insights—so innovation compounds over time.
Designed and operated by Microsoft, Innovation Studio is secure, compliant, and scalable—supporting internal and external participants across global organizations.

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Insight that compounds over time

Every idea, project, and collaboration in Innovation Studio becomes part of an innovation graph – a living view of skills, interests, teams, and momentum across your organization.

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Enterprise‑ready by design

Microsoft‑owned and operated, Secure and compliant, Scalable, Extensible. Innovation Studio is approved for internal Microsoft use and supports private preview deployments for customers

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Who should be using this

Innovation leaders driving culture change and measurable outcomes. Engineering and product teams building and shipping new ideas. Business and functional teams contributing domain expertise. Partners and customers collaborating securely in shared innovation programs

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Built on Microsoft’s innovation DNA

Innovation Studio was incubated within Microsoft and refined through years of real‑world use powering the Global Hackathon and other innovation programs. With Microsoft as Customer Zero, the platform reflects proven patterns for scaling innovation across complex organizations.