What do European Stakeholders think about Open Social Innovation?

Open Social Innovation (OSI) is a new fast-growing discipline of Open Innovation that is mainly focused on tackling societal matters and challenges under the auspices of co-creation, collaboration, and co-working. This work presents a research study that analyses the state and potential of applying OSI at the European level by investigating the views of various European stakeholders coming from several countries and regions. As the contributors come from various and different organizations, regions and countries, questions arose, as to how all these participants could successfully co-create and perform in an OSI environment. The investigated methodology used a specially designed questionnaire to analyze and compare stakeholders’ performance and potential for applying OSI in their region. Evaluating the answers provides several insights into the participants’ nature, how their characteristics can be an asset or a deterrent for OSI implementation, and the similar issues and problems they faced. Suggestions and recommendations for the further adoption and promotion of OSI are discussed and concluded.