Transform Employee Ideas into Innovation Reality

Company hackathons and innovation sprints are powerful ways to unlock creativity, boost engagement and solve real business challenges—but only if you understand what your team actually wants to build and how they'd like to participate.

This Company Hackathon & Innovation Sprint Survey template helps HR, innovation teams and leadership gather meaningful input from employees before, during or after your next innovation event. Use it to collect idea submissions, gauge interest levels, understand collaboration preferences and plan realistic time allocation that fits within existing workloads.

Built for modern workplaces that value employee voice

Whether you're planning your first hackathon or running quarterly innovation sprints, this survey covers the full spectrum: employee interest, idea generation, cross-functional team preferences, implementation likelihood and time commitment expectations.

The form is designed to be conversational yet structured, with conditional logic that adapts based on participation interest and idea submission choices. That means employees who want to pitch ideas get the right fields, while those who prefer to join existing teams skip straight to collaboration preferences.

What this survey helps you achieve

• Capture innovative ideas with detailed prompts on problem statements, proposed solutions and impact potential
• Assess collaboration readiness by asking about preferred team structures, cross-functional interest and skill-sharing opportunities
• Plan realistic timelines with questions on time availability, sprint duration preferences and scheduling constraints
• Measure engagement by understanding motivation levels, past participation and barriers to involvement
• Identify implementation paths with fields for resource needs, stakeholder buy-in and post-sprint follow-through

Use the responses to shape event formats, match participants into balanced teams, prioritise ideas with the highest feasibility and ensure innovation initiatives align with employee schedules and interests.

Integrate with Paperform's workflow tools

Once submissions come in, use Stepper (stepper.io) to automatically route idea submissions to innovation managers, notify participants of team assignments or trigger follow-up surveys post-event. Sync responses to Airtable, Notion or Google Sheets to build a live innovation pipeline, and use AI Insights to surface common themes across hundreds of ideas without manual tagging.

This template works for startups fostering a culture of experimentation, mid-sized companies launching formal innovation programs and enterprises running global hackathon series. Trusted by over 500K teams worldwide, Paperform is SOC2 Type II & GDPR compliant, making it the professional choice for employee engagement surveys that respect privacy and deliver actionable insights.

Turn employee creativity into competitive advantage—start with a survey that makes participation easy and exciting.