Organizing for Open Social Innovation

Understanding how to organize for open social innovation in order to generate and implement new ideas is essential to unlock their potential for creating impact and addressing societal challenges. Despite the development of scholarship on open social innovation, research on the topic is still underdeveloped. We believe that reflecting on different forms of open innovation (from open science to innovation contests) and how they organize to engage multiple stakeholders to generate new ideas and create impact is essential and timely. There is a growing interest among scholars from different fields as well as from practitioners in understanding better the conditions to increase the success/effectiveness of open social innovation. This symposium aims at contributing to this understanding by shedding light on pioneering new studies that present empirical work that describes different forms of open social innovation and contexts in order to unpack practices for successful open social innovation. We aim to engage the audience in a timely discussion about the conditions that facilitate idea generation as well as implementation and collective action in open social innovation context. Orchestrating Open Innovation through Punctuated Openness Author: Damla Diriker; Vrije U. Amsterdam Involving Patients in Open Social Innovation Author: Olivia Jung; UCLA Opening Science by Transforming the Scientific Paper Author: Paolo Vincenzo Leone; Nova SBE, U. Nova de Lisboa