The Challenges of Challenge.Gov : Adopting Private Sector Business Innovations in the Federal Government
| Type of Publication: | Contribution to a conference |
| Publication status: | Published |
| URI (citable link): | http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-0-357012 |
| Author: | Mergel, Ines; Bretschneider, Stuart I.; Louis, Claudia; Smith, Jason |
| Year of publication: | 2014 |
| Conference: | 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Jan 6, 2014 - Jan 9, 2014, Waikoloa, HI |
| Published in: | HICSS '14 Proceedings of the 2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. - Washington, DC : IEEE, 2014. - pp. 2073-2082. - ISSN 1530-1605. - ISBN 978-1-4799-2504-9 |
| DOI (citable link): | https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2014.262 |
| Summary: |
As part of the Open Government Initiative in the U.S. federal government, the White House has introduced a new policy instrument called "Challenges and Prizes", implemented as Challenge.gov that allows federal departments to run Open Innovation (OI) contests. This initiative was motivated by similar OI initiatives in the private sector and to enhance innovativeness and performance among federal agencies. Here we first define the underlying theoretical concepts of OI, crowd sourcing and contests and apply them to the existing theory of public ness and the creation of public goods. We then analyze over 200 crowd sourcing contests on CHALLENGE.GOV and conclude that federal departments and agencies use this policy instrument for four different purpose: awareness, service, knowledge and technical solutions. We conclude that Challenge.gov is currently used as an innovative format to inform and educate the public about public management problems and less frequently to solicit complex technological solutions from problem solvers.
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| Subject (DDC): | 320 Politics |
| Link to License: | In Copyright |
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MERGEL, Ines, Stuart I. BRETSCHNEIDER, Claudia LOUIS, Jason SMITH, 2014. The Challenges of Challenge.Gov : Adopting Private Sector Business Innovations in the Federal Government. 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). Waikoloa, HI, Jan 6, 2014 - Jan 9, 2014. In: HICSS '14 Proceedings of the 2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Washington, DC:IEEE, pp. 2073-2082. ISSN 1530-1605. ISBN 978-1-4799-2504-9. Available under: doi: 10.1109/HICSS.2014.262
@inproceedings{Mergel2014-01Chall-35734, title={The Challenges of Challenge.Gov : Adopting Private Sector Business Innovations in the Federal Government}, year={2014}, doi={10.1109/HICSS.2014.262}, isbn={978-1-4799-2504-9}, issn={1530-1605}, address={Washington, DC}, publisher={IEEE}, booktitle={HICSS '14 Proceedings of the 2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences}, pages={2073--2082}, author={Mergel, Ines and Bretschneider, Stuart I. and Louis, Claudia and Smith, Jason} }
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