Our R&D Open Innovation team looks for sparking connections and collaborations with external partners to pioneer impactful innovations and sustainable solutions in our two core categories:
OPEN INNOVATION
Henkel Consumer Brands is with its innovative laundry, cleaning, and hair product lines at the heart of many households.
We aim to offer our consumers the most innovative and high-performing products with the best ecological footprint.
Partnerships play a decisive role in driving innovation and sustainability in our value chain and beyond.
This is why Henkel Spark exists.
Consumer-centric innovation
fired by collaboration
WE SEEK CONNECTIONS WITH
Researchers & Academia
We work with ecosystem partners and thought leaders such as researchers and academia to identify emerging technologies, trends, and industry innovations to collaboratively exchange on and solve consumer and sustainability challenges facing modern society.
Start-ups
We are looking for start-ups at all stages to help us determine the future. We partner with those who are providing solutions to our most pressing consumer and sustainability challenges. Combining your innovative and cutting-edge offerings with Henkel’s consumer expertise and know-how, we aim to co-create solutions that will truly change the lives of our consumers and the planet.
Suppliers
Our suppliers are critical to Henkel’s success. Leveraging both Henkel’s expertise and your innovation, we partner with our suppliers to unlock the next level products that enhance the lives of our consumers, every day.
Venture Capital
We work with venture capital partners through our corporate venturing arm of Henkel: Henkel Ventures. Henkel Ventures combines the expertise of professional venture capitalists with a deep understanding that innovation is more than just funding. Learn more about how we manage professional investments and co-innovation for a sustainable and digital future on www.henkel-ventures.com.
OUR PRIORITY AREAS
We strive for solutions to master various surfaces, flexible textile and hair fibers
as well as hard surfaces of dishes and machines.
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HENKEL SPARK WORKS
It starts with a Spark
SPARK
You have a game-changing idea to tackle consumer challenges in one of our priority areas or beyond? The floor is yours: Submit your idea!
SCREEN
Your submissions are reviewed by our disruptive innovation team, evaluating if they spark our interests and meet our requirements.
SELECT
If your idea is a match, you start your collaboration with us, developing a proof-of-concept, launching your pilot to test it with real consumers.
SCALE
Successful Spark pilots can scale-up - launching across multiple markets and potentially delivering enhanced consumer experience globally.
OUR PRINCIPLES
Collaboration
at heart
Commercially
focused & scalable
IMPACT
THROUGH PIONEERING INNOVATIONS
Relational
not transactional
PARTNERSHIP
FOR JOINT SUCCESS
SUSTAINABILITY
ALONG OUR VALUE CHAIN
EXPLORE
OUR CORPORATE VENTURING
We work with venture capital partners through our corporate venturing arm of Henkel: Henkel Ventures.
