Researching open innovation: theoretical and empirical approaches at different levels of analysis

PDW on the new developments on Open Innovation. The contribution was a discussion on the state of Open Innovation in the Public Sector and the forthcoming developments. Open Innovation in the Public Sector is characterized by a mix of incentives that go beyond the capturing of monetary value. This mix results in a multiplicity of organizations encompassing for-profit and non-for-profit ones together with activist. Also the focal organization situates its governance between enabling and direct styles of control resulting in ecosystems quite different from the ones that we encounter in the private sector.