Co-Creation that Leaves Traces in Space Radiobiology
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https://doi.org/10.23726/cij.2026.1830Keywords:
AMS, Business Model Canvas, Co-Creation, Ontology, Space Radiobiology, Curated Dataset, Medical Physics, Boundary ObjectAbstract
We report a situated case of interdisciplinary co-creation between astroparticle physics and medical physics/space radiobiology, in which a workable co-creation methodology emerged implicitly from long experience in large scientific collaborations rather than from formal co-creation training. The work is analysed through three reusable boundary objects that made collaboration testable and transferable: (i) a shared ontology to stabilise meaning and provenance, (ii) dose–effect models to translate physical exposure into health-relevant quantities with explicit validity ranges, and (iii) curated datasets packaged for cross-domain reuse and accountability. We show how these artefacts both enable and constrain agency, surfacing tensions around authorship, invisible labour, and value capture. We propose a minimal evaluation toolkit, provenance-first decision logs, attribution and benefit-sharing ledgers, and lightweight indicators of reuse, semantic convergence, and asymmetry, along with a six-step replication protocol. Finally, we remap the collaboration with a Business Model Canvas to make sustainability assumptions explicit.
Keywords: co-creation; boundary objects; ontology; dose-effect models; curated datasets; space radiobiology; medical physics; omissis ; Business Model Canvas Received: Month Year. Accepted: Month Year.
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