Investigating Open Government for Social Innovation

The R&D Management journal posted an article which noted that in recent years, public sector organizations have increasingly focused on citizen contribution by adopting instruments known from open innovation. A more open approach to innovation has become dominant in innovation management during the last decade. Recently, scholars argued that open innovation is also relevant outside the private sector. Open innovation relates not only to private benefits, but also to initiatives aiming at societal and public impact. In this study, we relate to open government as a part of social innovation that is transformed and enforced by new means of external contribution in a public setting. Social innovations build on new ideas to satisfy societal needs and create new relationships or collaborations and, ultimately, to benefit society and improve its capacity to act.

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