Unleashing open innovation in the public sector: a bibliometric and interpretive literature review

Purpose Institutional, economic, social and technological advancements enable openness to cope with wicked public management issues. Although open innovation (OI) is becoming a new normality for sector entities, scholarly knowledge on this topic not fully systematized. The article fills gap, providing thick integrative account of OI inspire decisions. Design/methodology/approach Following the SPAR-4-SLR protocol, domain-based literature review has been accomplished. Consistently study purpose, hybrid methodology designed. Bibliographic coupling permitted us discover research streams populating scientific debate. core arguments addressed within across were reported through an interpretive approach. Findings Starting from intellectual 94 contributions, 5 spotted. in unfolds evolutionary path. Public entities conventionally acted as “senior partners” privately-owned companies, funding (yellow cluster) data (purple nurture OI. An advanced perspective envisages model purposefully enacted by co-create value relevant stakeholders (red cluster). Fitting architectures (green mechanisms (blue should be arranged release potential sector. Research limitations/implications role enacting revised embracing co-creation perspective. Tailored organizational interventions decisions are required make reliable dependable generation model. Originality/value originally systematizes about OI, presenting it generation.