Experimenting with Open Innovation in Science (OIS) practices: A novel approach to co-developing research proposals

Authors

  • Susanne Beck Open Innovation in Science Center, Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, Nußdorferstr. 64, 2nd floor, 1090 Vienna, Austria; Department of Strategy and Innovation, Copenhagen Business School, Kilevej 14A, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
  • Janet Bercovitz Department of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Operations, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado, 995 Regent Drive, 419 UCB Boulder, CO, USA
  • Carsten Bergenholtz Department of Management, BSS, Aarhus University, Fuglesangs Alle 4, 8210 Aarhus, Denmark
  • Tiare-Maria Brasseur Open Innovation in Science Center, Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, Nußdorferstr. 64, 2nd floor, 1090 Vienna, Austria; Department of Strategy and Innovation, Copenhagen Business School, Kilevej 14A, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
  • Pablo D’Este INGENIO [CSIC-UPV], Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
  • Amelie Dorn Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Sonnenfelsgasse 19, 1010 Vienna, Austria; University of Vienna, Universitätsring 1, 1010, Vienna, Austria;
  • Michael Doser CERN, Esplanade des particules 1, 1211 Meyrin, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Clio Dosi Department of Management, University of Bologna, Via Terracini 28, Bologna, 40131 Italy
  • Agnes Effert Open Innovation in Science Center, Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, Nußdorferstr. 64, 2nd floor, 1090 Vienna, Austria
  • Riold Furtuna University of Passau, Innstr. 27, 94032 Passau, Germany
  • Melinda Goodyear Monash University, School of Rural Health, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia; Emerging Minds, National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health, Hilton, South Australia 6163, Australia
  • Christoph Grimpe Department of Strategy and Innovation, Copenhagen Business School, Kilevej 14A, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
  • Carolin Haeussler University of Passau, Innstr. 27, 94032 Passau, Germany
  • Fabian Hans University of Passau, Innstr. 27, 94032 Passau, Germany
  • Barbara Heinisch Centre for Translation Studies, University of Vienna, Gymnasiumstraße 50, 1190 Vienna, Austria
  • Nóra Katona Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights, Freyung 6, 1010 Vienna, Austria
  • Harald Kleinberger-Pierer FH JOANNEUM, University of Applied Sciences, Alte Poststraße 149, 8020 Graz, Austria
  • Olga Kokshagina RMIT University, Graduate School of Business and Law, La Trobe street, 124, 3000 Melbourne, Australia
  • Marcel LaFlamme Public Library of Science, 1265 Battery St., Suite 200, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Cornelia Lawson Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, Manchester M15 6PB, UK
  • Patrick Lehner Open Innovation in Science Center, Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, Nußdorferstr. 64, 2nd floor, 1090 Vienna, Austria
  • Hila Lifshitz-Assaf Stern School of Business, New York University, 44 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012, USA
  • Wolfgang Lukas Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE), Graz, Austria
  • Silvia Marchini Almacube, University of Bologna, via Ugo Foscolo 7, 40123 Bologna BO, Italy
  • Markus Mitterhauser Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18–20, 1090 Vienna, Austria
  • Francesco Moscato Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria
  • Markus Nordberg IdeaSquare, CERN IdeaSquare, CERN, Rte de Meyrin 372, 1217 Meyrin, Switzerland
  • Maria-Theresa Norn Danish Centre for Studies on Research and Research Policy, Department of Political Science, Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University, Bartholins Allé 7, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
  • Marion Poetz Department of Strategy and Innovation, Copenhagen Business School, Kilevej 14A, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark; Open Innovation in Science Center, Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, Nußdorferstr. 64, 2nd floor, 1090 Vienna, Austria
  • Marisa Ponti Department of Applied Information Technology, University of Gothenburg, Forskningsgången 6, 417 56 Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Gernot Pruschak Bern University of Applied Sciences, Business School, Brueckenstrasse 73, 3005 Bern, Switzerland
  • Janet Frances Rafner Center for Hybrid Intelligence, Department of Management, BSS, Aarhus University, Fuglesangs Alle 4, 8210 Aarhus, Denmark
  • Angelo Kenneth Romasanta ESADE Business School, Ramon Llull University, Av. Pedralbes, 60-62, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
  • Alexander Ruser Department of Sociology & Social Work, University of Agder, Universitetsveien 25, 4630 Kristiansand, Norway
  • Muhammed Sameed ALPHA Experiment, CERN, Esplanade des particules 1, 1211 Meyrin, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
  • Henry Sauermann ESMT Berlin, Schlossplatz 1, 10178 Berlin, Germany
  • Julia Suess-Reyes Open Innovation in Science Center, Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, Nußdorferstr. 64, 2nd floor, 1090 Vienna, Austria; Department of Strategy and Innovation, Copenhagen Business School, Kilevej 14A, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
  • Christopher L. Tucci Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
  • Philipp Tuertscher School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, de Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Rubén Vicente-Saez Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Aalto University, P.O. Box 15500, 00076 Aalto, Finland
  • Matteo Vignoli Department of Management, University of Bologna, Via Terracini 28, Bologna, 40131 Italy
  • Samantha Zyontz Stanford Law School, Stanford University, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23726/cij.2021.1328

Keywords:

Open Innovation in Science (OIS), co-production of scientific research, co-developing research proposals

Abstract

Co-producing scientific research with those who are affected by it is an emerging phenomenon in contemporary science. This article summarizes and reflects on both the process and outcome of a novel experiment to co-develop scientific research proposals in the field of Open Innovation in Science (OIS), wherein scholars engaged in the study of open and collaborative practices collaborated with the “users” of their research, i.e., scientists who apply such practices in their own research. The resulting co-developed research proposals focus on scientific collaboration, open data, and knowledge sharing and are available as an appendix to this article.

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2021-12-21

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Beck, S., Bercovitz, J., Bergenholtz, C., Brasseur, T.-M., D’Este, P., Dorn, A., … Zyontz, S. (2021). Experimenting with Open Innovation in Science (OIS) practices: A novel approach to co-developing research proposals. CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental Innovation, 5(2), 28–49. https://doi.org/10.23726/cij.2021.1328

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