What Can Open Innovation Be Used For And How Does It Create Value?
The Danish National Research Database website reported on a study which investigated the purposes for which public sector organizations use open innovation, and how it creates value. The research question is answered through a systematic literature review and an analysis of publicly available data about the open innovation projects referred to in that literature. The research identifies five different purposes of using open innovation. It also suggests that public sector organizations primarily use open innovation to pursue one specific purpose: innovation in society. When using open innovation for this purpose, public sector organizations attempt to create value by improving citizens’ quality of life and the quality of neighborhoods.
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