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Innovation Exchange Inc. (IX) is an open innovation vendor. IX operates a website which acts as a platform for companies and non-profit organizations to present innovation challenges to a community of innovators. This community is constituted of individuals as well as small and midsize businesses. In contrast to vendors focused primarily on innovation in the physical sciences, Innovation Exchange fosters product, service, process and business model development.〔(A Better Moustrap ) Canadian Business Online, September 29, 2008. Retrieved 19 September 2008.〕〔(Innovation Exchange = Crowdsourcing + Collaboration + Business Innovation ) Open Innovators.net, June 4, 2008. Retrieved 20 June 2008.〕〔(User Generated Intelligence...Innovation Exchange ) Passage Communications, May 20, 2008. Retrieved 20 June 2008.〕〔(What Low-Cost Innovation Techniques Should You Be Using RIGHT NOW?? ) Patty Seybold's Outside Innovation Blog, July 29, 2008.〕 ==Illegal activity== On 3/January/2015 company's executives sent a group email mentioning: "It is with regret that this email is to inform you that Innovation Exchange, Inc is now dormant and insolvent. It has been established that there are no viable assets with any value which could be sold and therefore no money to distribute" No name mentioned on the email. Since then the company's website does not perform nor any of the phone numbers active. The company never asked for payments for any of the services upfront but only a certain amount of negotiable deposit (retainer) to be paid by the innovators as a guarantee for the contracts and now they claiming that they can not pay back the money received. Many of the innovators are not from Canada but are actively performing legal action to find the 3 main members of this scam. The primary culprit seems to be Mr. Brynly R. Hawkins As mentioned by the Canadian police this company has never filed for bankruptcy which in that case the government of Canada would have helped the company owners to pay some of the outstanding debt so clearly this was just a scam and performed for a few years to gain public trust and managed to gather a significant sum of money. If you did interact with the company as a private entity and not a business, you can file a complaint through the Minister of Consumer Services; Consumer Protection Branch, Box 450 1201 Wilson Avenue Building A North York, ON M3M 1J8 Canada. Mr Hawkins' Business Identification number is 200901189. There are very hefty fines for misleading practices and what they did wholly is covered. The Consumer Protection Branch will go after Mr Hawkins on your behalf, even if you are not Canadian. Unfortunately, I am an LLC so pursuit has to be through the Courts. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Innovation Exchange」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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