Open Innovation and Federal R&D
The EPA website noted that Open Innovation approaches, from crowdsourcing to prize competitions, are being adopted by federal agencies at an accelerating rate over the last ten years. At the EPA, the Office of Research and Development has worked to embrace these new tools with success in a variety of applications, including high risk, high reward research
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Art of the Innovation Challenge
The Fedscoop website announced that since the General Services Administration launched Challenge.gov in 2010, the agency has recorded 742 innovation challenges hosted by federal agencies, offices and departments. Now, Challenge.gov is releasing a Challenges and Prizes Toolkit that offers federal agencies
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How Can the Federal Government Better Engage Citizens?
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) website noted that federal agencies are using “open innovation” tools to leverage the knowledge and skills of people outside government. Using dedicated websites and in-person outreach, agencies have worked with the public to rebuild communities
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Federal “Open Innovation Toolkit”
The Federal Times website reported that federal agencies are increasingly using the power of the crowd to help provide mission-critical services or conduct widespread research agencies could not have done as quickly — or at all — on their own. In response to the growing use of crowdsourcing in mission-critical
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