Chương trình đã thu hút 29 công ty trong năm đầu tiên của nó và tạo ra 170 ý tưởng. Trong số này, 13 ý tưởng bên ngoài được chọn để phát triển hơn nữa. BBC độc quyền lựa chọn giữa các nhóm và các nhân viên huấn luyện viên. Cơ cấu tổ chức sản xuất kết quả ấn tượng. Bộ hiện nay là | Chapter in a box 108 The open source innovation strategy entails a shift away from knowledge monopolies to an open source model that encourage many people to collaborate voluntarily to develop ideas and create solutions. This strategy can allow governments to achieve the following benefits Benefits of the open source innovation model Build repositories of innovative ideas and tools. Officials with the government of Ontario Canada realized that they had to do something creative to provide a flexible educational plan that is customized to the learning choices of teenagers to help them develop solid reading writing and math skills. To meet these objectives they built an online repository of resources developed by teachers that is available to teachers and students at no cost and can be customized to local needs. Enhance quality by creating mechanisms for continuous improvement. The more widely available programs are for public testing and experimentation the more rapidly problems can be fixed and improvements made. This was the primary reason NASA released World Wind as an open source program. The city of Melbourne in the state of Victoria Australia used wiki technology to place the city plan online as a shared document to be edited by the public. Gain customized solutions with minimal investment. The District of Columbia launched a contest called Apps for Democracy that invites open source Web applications to convert real time data from multiple government agencies into an accessible and useable format. For an investment of 50 000 the District of Columbia government received 47 applications in 30 days worth around million in benefits. Attract specialist contributions. A . Patent Trademark Office peer reviewed pilot called the Peer-to-Patent Project permits anyone to submit prior art that could help patent examiners make faster and better decisions. As of January 2009 2416 people had signed up to be reviewers and had cited 301 instances of prior art on 50 .
