Like the prize that Charles Lindberg claimed for the first non-stop flight between New York and Paris or the space industry's X-Prize, open innovation encourages progress towards clear targets without specifying the best means to achieve them. It is an approach that has earned its place as a flexible, useful tool within a comprehensive portfolio of strategies to support innovation.

Recent Perspectives

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BROKERING INNOVATION

Azimuth Health Group becomes one of Ontario's first health Innovation Brokers. More→

LEARNINGS FROM OPEN INNOVATION CHALLENGES

What was learned from the first ten ImagineNation challenges, plus resources for those interested in open innovation.

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SPARKING INNOVATION

How a simple question sparked 5 years of open innovation: Blog post

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QUESTIONS ANSWERED

How often lab tests are repeated was just one of the questions teams in the ImagineNation data challenges tackled, when they analyzed existing data to answer pressing questions about healthcare.

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SPURRING PUBLIC HEALTH VIA SOCIAL MEDIA

Key insights from experts advising teams in the ImagineNation Challenge on using social media to advance public health goals.

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INNOVATING FOR BETTER CARE

Presentation to the Open Government Partnership describing how the ImagineNation Challenges aimed to improve healthcare.

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Getting Started

The following resources offer useful starting points for more information about open innovation:

The US government's Getting Started with Challenge and Prize Competitions page
Nesta's Innovation Policy Toolkit
McKinsey's Using Prizes to Spur Innovation report
Deloitte's report on The Craft of Incentive Prize Design
Infoway's ImagineNation Challenge website with outcomes, rules, judges, awards, and more