Federal Innovation Guidance Fails on Open Innovation
The Federal Times website reported that government-wide guidance for implementing open innovation strategies is particularly inefficient when addressing agency challenges in open data collaboration and fostering ideation and open dialogues, according to a recent report by the Government Accountability Office. The GAO found agencies have looked to engage the public through crowdsourcing and citizen science, idea generation, open data collaboration, open dialogues and prize competitions. Guidance for identifying and engaging stakeholders and partners was deemed “fully reflects practice” throughout all initiatives, but sustaining communities of participants and partners is particularly lacking.
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