Open Innovation in Science

Openness and collaboration can foster breakthroughs in science and science-based innovation. As such, they can help address declining scientific productivity and tackle grand challenges of the present day. While the Open Science movement has helped make scientific knowledge widely available, the concept of Open Innovation in Science (OIS) more broadly encompasses inter- and transdisciplinary knowledge flows and collaborations along the entire process of generating and translating scientific research. Grounded in the logic of Open Innovation, the OIS research framework carefully considers the specifics of the science context. It integrates several different streams of research that aim to understand the antecedents, processes, effects, and boundary conditions of applying open and collaborative practices in science. Among others, such practices include involving crowds and citizens as well as open models of university-industry co-creation in different stages of scientific research.