Crowdsourcing on what are the new sources of ICT-enabled growth and jobs to take into consideration in the follow-up to the Digital Agenda for Europe

This Final Study Report represents the culmination of the project InnoCentive has delivered under tender from the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) of the European Commission. Exploring how examples of open innovation can be used to direct information and communications technology (ICT) public policy, two innovation Challenges were run as part of the project. A thought-leader workshop was then held to discuss the outcomes and implications of the Challenges, and explore how open innovation can be more widely used in public policy and the potential for up-scaling. As an emergent tool growing in popularity, crowdsourcing public policy can be seen as a vital way to further democratise policy development, while accessing external expertise that otherwise may not have been known to the organisation. This report firstly details the ideas collected through the open innovation Challenges run, highlighting those that were retained by the judges or received an award. Later chapters then build off these submitted ideas to outline implementable policy recommendations that were discussed amongst workshop attendees and broader recommendations for the potential future use of open innovation and crowdsourcing by the European Commission.