Open Innovation and Federal R&D
The EPA website noted that Open Innovation approaches, from crowdsourcing to prize competitions, are being adopted by federal agencies at an accelerating rate over the last ten years. At the EPA, the Office of Research and Development has worked to embrace these new tools with success in a variety of applications, including high risk, high reward research and challenge prizes focused on technology for high‐throughput screening of chemicals. While individual federal programs have demonstrated that Open Innovation approaches can strengthen the federal R&D portfolio, more systematic and comprehensive study is needed.
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