Examining Open Innovation in Science (OIS): what Open Innovation can and cannot offer the science of science
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Examining Open Innovation in Science (OIS) : what Open Innovation can and cannot offer the science of science. / Beck, Susanne; LaFlamme, Marcel; Bergenholtz, Carsten; Bogers, Marcel; Brasseur, Tiare-Maria; Conradsen, Marie-Louise; Crowston, Kevin; Di Marco, Diletta; Effert, Agnes; Filiou, Despoina; Frederiksen, Lars; Gillier, Thomas; Gruber, Marc; Haeussler, Carolin; Hoisl, Karin; Kokshagina, Olga; Norn, Maria-Theresa; Poetz, Marion ; Pruschak, Gernot; Priego, Laia Pujol; Radziwon, Agnieszka; Ruser, Alexander; Sauermann, Henry; Shah, Sonali K.; Suess-Reyes, Julia; Tucci, Christopher L.; Tuertscher, Philipp; Vedel, Jane Bjørn; Verganti, Roberto; Wareham, Jonathan; Xu, Sunny Mosangzi.
In: Innovation: Organization & Management, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2023, p. 221-235.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Examining Open Innovation in Science (OIS)
T2 - what Open Innovation can and cannot offer the science of science
AU - Beck, Susanne
AU - LaFlamme, Marcel
AU - Bergenholtz, Carsten
AU - Bogers, Marcel
AU - Brasseur, Tiare-Maria
AU - Conradsen, Marie-Louise
AU - Crowston, Kevin
AU - Di Marco, Diletta
AU - Effert, Agnes
AU - Filiou, Despoina
AU - Frederiksen, Lars
AU - Gillier, Thomas
AU - Gruber, Marc
AU - Haeussler, Carolin
AU - Hoisl, Karin
AU - Kokshagina, Olga
AU - Norn, Maria-Theresa
AU - Poetz, Marion
AU - Pruschak, Gernot
AU - Priego, Laia Pujol
AU - Radziwon, Agnieszka
AU - Ruser, Alexander
AU - Sauermann, Henry
AU - Shah, Sonali K.
AU - Suess-Reyes, Julia
AU - Tucci, Christopher L.
AU - Tuertscher, Philipp
AU - Vedel, Jane Bjørn
AU - Verganti, Roberto
AU - Wareham, Jonathan
AU - Xu, Sunny Mosangzi
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Scholars across disciplines increasingly hear calls for more open and collaborative approaches to scientific research. The concept of Open Innovation in Science (OIS) provides a framework that integrates dispersed research efforts aiming to understand the antecedents, contingencies, and consequences of applying open and collaborative research practices. While the OIS framework has already been taken up by science of science scholars, its conceptual underpinnings require further specification. In this essay, we critically examine the OIS concept and bring to light two key aspects: 1) how OIS builds upon Open Innovation (OI) research by adopting its attention to boundary-crossing knowledge flows and by adapting other concepts developed and researched in OI to the science context, as exemplified by two OIS cases in the area of research funding; 2) how OIS conceptualises knowledge flows across boundaries. While OI typically focuses on well-defined organisational boundaries, we argue that blurry and even invisible boundaries between communities of practice may more strongly constrain flows of knowledge related to openness and collaboration in science. Given the uptake of this concept, this essay brings needed clarity to the meaning of OIS, which has no particular normative orientation towards a close coupling between science and industry. We end by outlining the essay’s contributions to OI and the science of science, as well as to science practitioners.
AB - Scholars across disciplines increasingly hear calls for more open and collaborative approaches to scientific research. The concept of Open Innovation in Science (OIS) provides a framework that integrates dispersed research efforts aiming to understand the antecedents, contingencies, and consequences of applying open and collaborative research practices. While the OIS framework has already been taken up by science of science scholars, its conceptual underpinnings require further specification. In this essay, we critically examine the OIS concept and bring to light two key aspects: 1) how OIS builds upon Open Innovation (OI) research by adopting its attention to boundary-crossing knowledge flows and by adapting other concepts developed and researched in OI to the science context, as exemplified by two OIS cases in the area of research funding; 2) how OIS conceptualises knowledge flows across boundaries. While OI typically focuses on well-defined organisational boundaries, we argue that blurry and even invisible boundaries between communities of practice may more strongly constrain flows of knowledge related to openness and collaboration in science. Given the uptake of this concept, this essay brings needed clarity to the meaning of OIS, which has no particular normative orientation towards a close coupling between science and industry. We end by outlining the essay’s contributions to OI and the science of science, as well as to science practitioners.
KW - Open Innovation in Science
KW - Open Innovation
KW - open science
KW - science of science
KW - knowledge flows
KW - boundaries
KW - boundary crossing
KW - scientific research
U2 - 10.1080/14479338.2021.1999248
DO - 10.1080/14479338.2021.1999248
M3 - Journal article
VL - 25
SP - 221
EP - 235
JO - Innovation: Management, Policy and Practice
JF - Innovation: Management, Policy and Practice
SN - 1447-9338
IS - 3
ER -
ID: 286998577