The “unveiling and leading” mechanism is based on open competitions to select the best candidates to lead key research projects. Recent decades have seen several innovative approachs. An effective interaction between the innovation themes, the unveiling mechanism, active leading mechanism, free flow of innovative ideas, and rewarding and punishing mechanisms, is essential for constant innovation system development, which ensures the acceleration of the innovation and technology transfer. To reveal the enlightenment of open innovation to the mechanism of “unveiling and leading”, this paper analyzed and compared open innovation practices across multiple companies, organizations, projects, and platforms, and extracted the topic selection, personnel selection and evaluation mechanisms. On this basis, we summarized and refined the essential elements for open mechanisms that may promote the perfection of the successful “unveiling and leading”, and proposed the corresponding suggestions.

open innovation  /  publish the list  /  innovative approachs