Open Innovation: High Hopes and Many Challenges

The ProQuest website posted the abstract and beginning of an article which noted that during recent years different variants of IT-enabled public sector open innovation have been proposed as ways of overcoming the difficulties that public sector organizations face in terms of – on one side – limited capabilities for
innovation and – on the other side – a substantial need for innovation. While the hopes seemed high, existing research has not provided empirical research that justifies these hopes. Apparently succeeding with these approaches is harder than originally expected. This research attempts to increase our understanding of why this is the case by identifying the challenges that these approaches face.

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