Innovation Policy Instruments Through the Lens of Open Innovation

The Revistes website at the University of Barcelona posted a study originally published in the Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business which examines the degree to which existing public innovation policies promote open innovation by companies. The results show that innovation policies in Spanish national and regional settings partially promote firms’ open innovation, since governments base their actions on the interaction between science, industry and government, sometimes with intermediaries that promote it. The study proposes the development of instruments to encourage firms to implement open innovation practices in such a way that they complement the existing ones and can fully achieve the benefits associated with open innovation.

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