What is Open Innovation?
The term open innovation describes the targeted dissemination of the innovation process of an organization for the purpose of knowledge exchange with different external stakeholders: relevant external knowledge is brought into the organization/company, or internal knowledge is systematically conveyed outside (i.e. the allocation of licences). In this way, problem-solving competence can be enhanced in order to develop novel ideas and concepts. And overall, the application/utilization of new knowledge can be increased.
Open innovation includes:
- Outside-In Open Innovation – the systematic search and incorporation of external innovation sources, as for example users, patients, other research sites or producers, i.e. through crowdsourcing or open source software;
- Inside-Out Open Innovation – the export of an organization's current knowledge, i.e. through out-licensing, joint ventures or spin-offs.
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What is Open Innovation in Science?
With the Open Innovation in Science project, the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft is carrying out pioneer work in Europe: research processes are being specifically towards open innovation. The goal is to gain augmented knowledge to achieve scientific and socially relevant results. To date, the principles of open innovation have mainly been applied in the field of economy – in Open Innovation in Science, they are used to generate and utilize top-level research results. The Open Innovation in Science initiative of the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft includes two parts:
- CRIS stands for Crowdsourcing Research Questions in Science. The crowdsourcing project involves people from outside the scientific system into research activities regarding psychological illnesses. More information about the crowdsourcing project on www.redensiemit.org
- LOIS, the Lab for Open Innovation in Science, is a training programme in which scientists learn open innovation methods and use these methods in everyday research.
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How can an economic model be transferred to science?
Implementing open innovation is relevant for everyone who wants to generate something new and who is willing to open up to outsiders. Not everything that characterises open innovation in the field of economy has to be transferred to the field of science. Primarily, it's about choosing those methods that will benefit science.
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What is the long-term goal of the Open Innovation in Science initiative?
Open Innovation in Science tries specifically to integrate the "outside world" (i.e. patients, carers, etc.) into research processes in order to enlarge the innovation potential of science. It is aimed at stimulating new research questions and creating new research processes.
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Who is behind Open Innovation in Science?
Open Innovation in Science is an initiative of the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft.
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Who is financing Open Innovation in Science?
The Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft initiative will be sponsored by the Austrian National Foundation for Research, Technology and Development.
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When will the Open Innovation in Science initiative begin?
- Preparations started in 2013.
- The online platform CRIS was open for contributions from 16th April to 6th July 2015.
- The LOIS training programme will start on 15th April 2016.
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Who can participate in Open Innovation in Science?
- Anyone was invited to participate in the crowdsourcing initiative CRIS both at home and abroad, from 16th April to 6th July 2015. More information on www.redensiemit.org
- As of 22th October 2015, application for the LOIS training format is open to
- scientists at postdoctoral level and above, whose focus is on Health Sciences.
- Experience of group work is required at both national and international level.
- The number of participants is limited to a maximum of 20.
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What is meant by Health Sciences?
Health Sciences is the collective term for all disciplines and lines of research pertaining to health and covers a wide range in the interpretation of the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft. In terms of the WHO definition of health, it not only includes public health, medicine, dental medicine, pharmacy, psychology and also nursing sciences, but also economic sciences and management sciences, political sciences, sociology and statistics, as well as humanities, social sciences and cultural sciences as far as they devote themselves to issues associated with health and wellbeing.
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How are CRIS and LOIS connected?
The Open Innovation in Science initiative aims at facilitating a direct dialogue between science and society. Within the framework of CRIS, people were asked to contribute concrete problems, concerns / needs, proposed solutions, etc. From this, new research themes and questions develop. In LOIS, scientists from the Health Sciences field will be trained to specifically open up to the outside world and, for example, to concretely let patient issues flow into their everyday research.
Last update on 21.01.2016 by Roland Schütz.