Open Innovation platform has the ambition to provide an environment where citizens can play an active role alongside professionals, able to use competences, ideas and solutions in the whole life cycle of the regional research and innovation policy, from the definition of strategic goals to the monitoring and evaluation phase, with a strong focus shift from institutions and organisations to individuals.
Today the platform counts over 7000 participants, both from the R+I community and from the large public, lending substance to the principle of multi-actor, public engagement. The platform offers a broad range of tools to inform and engage, promote the competences of local actors, design and manage research and open innovation projects, for the dissemination and valorization of results.
The software framework powering the platform has been released recently under a free, open source license with the specific aim to facilitate its adoption in similar or complementary user scenarios and promote collaboration among them (other Regions, company networks, clusters, large collaborative projects etc.) and to maximize content sharing and interoperability. Thus valorisation, training and networking actions are necessary in order to promote the use of the tool at all level: locally, nationally and internationally. www.open2.0.regione.lombardia.it