Open Innovation Initiatives to Tackle COVID-19 Crises: Imposter Open Innovation and Openness in Data

Abstract

Big data and analytics played an important role in open innovation during the pandemic. Sharing data and transferring knowledge between governments, laboratories and research centres helped us to understand the unpredictable spread of COVID-19. This article firstly explores corporate and public responses to the pandemic, presents different cases and discusses how open innovation, worldwide collaboration and data shaped this response. Having data practises in focus, this article raises concerns and underlines issues related to the applications during responses to COVID-19 at collaborative open innovation projects.