The term open innovation means a situation where an organisation doesn’t just rely on their own internal knowledge, sources and resources (such as their own staff or R&D for example) for innovation (of products, services, business models, processes etc.) but also uses multiple external sources (such as customer feedback, published patents, competitors, external agencies, the public etc.) to drive innovation. There are two types of open innovation: inbound open innovation, and outbound open innovation. Inbound innovation is about sourcing and acquiring expertise from outside the organisation, and scanning the external environment for new information to identify, select, utilise and internalise ideas. Outbound innovation is the purposive commercialisation and capture of internally developed ideas in the organisation’s external environment. This might be through selective revealing of a product to journalists and reviewers or selectively selling the technology or service to customers with a view to getting feedback (The Oxford Review Encyclopaedia of Terms, 2019 AU10: The in-text citation "The Oxford Review Encyclopaedia of Terms, 2019" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).
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For an Open Innovation Platform Dedicated to Education: A Blockchain Approach
Luciano Sathler (Brazilian Association for Distance Education, Brazil)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9478-9.ch008
Abstract
The innovation ecosystem dedicated to education in Brazil has been strengthened, but it is still far short of the needs of society and the potential that technology brings. The imperative of transformation is articulated by urgency—it is necessary to accelerate innovation—and by the comprehensiveness. Brazil's strategy of public financing to education would include new edtech products and services previously tested, validated, and priced by reverse auction made available in a national marketplace. It would be up to each municipality or school to define its priorities for the acquisition of technology products and services. Any software developed or made available by this open innovation platform should follow the guidelines of a free software. The training of teachers, managers, and staff would be an obligatory part of the adhesion, being primarily online. Students and their families would be included as potential users by a blockchain approach.