There is this understanding in policy making that as much as the decision making process is structured and encrypted in vast amounts of documents, the outcome of the debate is always influenced by this obscure social element called informal meetings. These are understood as occasions when various stakeholders somehow end up behind closed doors that in effect magically revert the course of an official debate.
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In anything tech related, this implicit aspect is usually downplayed in exchange for news-breaking analysis of vague corporate releases filtered through a number of media channels. Therefore I thought it might be useful to explicitly name all the stakeholders in open innovation and consequently look at ways to reach them directly (both offline and online).
In the course of the next couple of month, I will attempt to go around all these actors and come back with their individual perspectives on the concepts of open innovation. Feel free to suggest questions these stakeholders should be asked.
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