Abstract
As people pay attentions to social innovation as the source of innovative ideas and the repository of new business models, this study poses the following research questions: How does a social open innovation succeed? What is the success factor of social open innovation? What are the successful dynamics of social open innovation? This article selected two case studies: one is the Burro Battery Company in Ghana and the other is grassroots innovation enterprise of India known as the Honey Bee Network and its collaborator, National Innovation Foundation (NIF), Ahmedabad. The first case is a social open innovation firm case while the second case is a social open innovation policy case. Through deep case study, we found out the ways of success of social open innovation strategy and social open innovation policy.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 122-143 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Science, Technology and Society |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Mar 2019 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- Burro Battery
- Grassroots Innovation Festival of India
- social open innovation
- social open innovation policy
- social open innovation strategy