Does the Resilience Learning Game Foster Workforce Open Innovation and Sustainability Attributes? Empirical Evidence from Greek Food Industry

Multimedia gaming for learning and development denotes an enduring immersive design and effective learning challenge for academics, students, researchers, industry stakeholders and software developers globally. Inconsistent evidence for gameplay learning effects compared with traditional learning delivery tends to bear the “learning gaming puzzle” continuing. Sparse findings grapple with open innovation-related aspects and a less clear impact is noted for global citizenship influencing sustainability. Thereby, this research expands on assessing open innovation and civic learning properties in conventional and learning gameplay context in a food industry. We elaborate on 65 Greek employees’ open innovation and civic capacity attributes assessed post-workshop and after-Resilience gaming instruction in 2022. The employees did perceive the Resilience game as more favourable instructional tool for open innovation and civic agency in relation with traditional learning mode. They further related the Resilience game to direct open innovation-associated elements in their organization. The acquired findings are discussed in light of theoretical and hands-on ramifications and routes for additional exploration regarding learning game open innovation and sustainability-linked L&D and experience.