Integrating Open Innovation Platforms in Public Sector Decision Making: Empirical Results from Smart City Research

IntroductionInnovation platforms and innovation intermediaries exist to enhance open innovation and collaborative innovation in cities (McPhee et al., 2015). An innovation platform is defined as an approach that systematically facilitates external actors’ innovation with the purpose of developing solutions to the platform owners’ problems and needs (Ojasalo, 2015a). In the