Open social innovation: challenges and opportunities

This paper presents and discusses the various definitions, paradigms and perspective of Open Innovation on one hand and Social Innovation on the other hand, the role of the different actors and key approaches. Then, it is introduced and derived the definition of Open Social Innovation (OSI), as a unified approach, which would lead to sustainable growth. There are investigated good practices of open social innovation at the regions participating in INTERREG EUROPE project “OSIRIS-Open Social Innovation policies driven by co-creative Regional Innovation eco-systemS” along with a methodology to peer review their potential on adopting Open Social Innovation.