Innovations are not only generated in individual companies or departments, because good ideas exist everywhere in society. That's why an Open Innovation City involves the entire urban society: politics and administration, education and research, business and associations, as well as citizens and civil society as a whole; in other words, all major sectors of urban society can participate in shaping the city. Open Innovation City creates new framework conditions and networks for this - within the city, but also with strong sources of innovation outside the city limits. An Open Innovation City is a city that drives progress, answers future-relevant questions with the involvement of the urban society, builds strategic access to external innovation potentials and lives an open innovation culture.