Implementing Open Innovation in the Public Sector

November 8, 2013 Editor 0

The Public Administration Review website posted an article which noted that as part of the Open Government Initiative, the Obama administration has called for new forms of collaboration with stakeholders to increase the innovativeness of public service delivery. Federal managers are employing a new policy instrument called challenge.gov to implement open innovation concepts invented in the private sector to crowdsource solutions from previously untapped problem solvers and to leverage collective intelligence to tackle complex social and technical public management problems.

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Categories: Open Innovation

Tags: Crowdsourcing, Innovation, outsourcing, Presidency of Barack Obama, Technology_Internet