%0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2013 %T Quebec Seeks Solutions: An Economic Development Agency's Role in Local Open Innovation %A Alexandra Berger Masson %K collaboration %K economic development %K local open innovation %K Open innovation %K private research and development %K Quebec Seeks Solutions %X This article offers an economic-development perspective on a new method for local companies to find innovative solutions to their most challenging business problems: local open innovation. Quebec International, the economic development agency for the Quebec City area, contributed to the development of the Seeking Solutions approach to local open innovation, which included the hosting of problem-solving conferences with local research centres, economic development actors, and companies. Looking back on our experiences and outcomes since 2010, this article shows how the development and introduction of this new approach to local open innovation has changed the rules of the game in the region. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 3 %P 27-32 %8 03/2013 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/667 %N 3 %1 Quebec International Alexandra Berger Masson is Director of Corporate Affairs at Quebec International, which includes responsibility for innovation projects. She has worked for Quebec International since 2008 and lived the second Quebec Seeks Solution experience as the Project Manager. In previous economic development roles with Quebec International she, managed projects in applied technology and technology entrepreneurship. She has a PhD in Philosophy and in Cognitive Sciences and has worked on the creation of an expressive language for artificial agents in the artificial intelligence domain. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/667