Playful Collaboration (or Not): Using a Game to Grasp the Social Dynamics of Open Innovation in Innovation and Business Education

Bogers, Marcel; Sproedt, Henrik

Playful Collaboration (or Not): Using a Game to Grasp the Social Dynamics of Open Innovation in Innovation and Business Education

Journal of Teaching in International Business, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2012, pp. 75-97

32 Pages Posted: 18 May 2012 Last revised: 4 Oct 2012

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Marcel Bogers

University of Copenhagen - Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO); University of California, Berkeley

Henrik Sproedt

University of Southern Denmark - Mads Clausen Institute for Product Innovation

Date Written: April 17, 2012

Abstract

This article explores how playing games can be used to teach intangible social interaction across boundaries, in particular within open collaborative innovation. We present an exploratory case study of how students learned from playing a board game in a graduate course of the international and interdisciplinary Innovation and Business master program in Denmark. We identify several important themes related to the process of learning through playing and the social dynamics of open collaborative innovation, while we also highlight possible caveats of “playing” and practicing open innovation. Our findings imply several opportunities and challenges within education and beyond.

Keywords: co-creation, co-opetition, games, learning, play, social capital

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Bogers, Marcel and Sproedt, Henrik, Playful Collaboration (or Not): Using a Game to Grasp the Social Dynamics of Open Innovation in Innovation and Business Education (April 17, 2012). Journal of Teaching in International Business, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2012, pp. 75-97. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2061754