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This report is part of a series of co-publications between the Directorate General Information Society and Media, Directorate for ICT Addressing Societal Challenges and the Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group (OISPG). OISPG is an industry-led industrial group to support policies for Open and Service Innovation, towards open innovation ecosystems and user-centric service architecture, at the European Commission.

Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission and EU Commissioner for the Digital Agenda for Europe (DAE), argues, "key to achieving many of our competitiveness and innovation ambitions in the coming years (…)" is "to embrace open innovation and platforms, so that we avoid wasteful platform competition,and anti-competitive lock-ins, as well as stimulating development and investment in new generations of online services" (Neelie Kroes, 2010).

To read the full, original article click on this link: Unlocking the Digital Future through Open Innovation | Social Innovation Europe