Opinion

July 20, 2021

Public organisations are next to adopt open innovation

Here’s what they can learn from Transport for London.


Alberto Onetti

6 min read

Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash

Open innovation is a growing trend, mainly embraced so far by large companies but increasingly by smaller ones too. But what about public sector organisations? Progress here has been patchy, with the pandemic forcing the healthcare sector to become more open to startups but other sectors such as the police and military, for example, relatively slow to open themselves to innovation partnerships.

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