How Can We Establish Sustainable Open Innovation?

The Elephant in the Lab website posted an article by Professor Marion Poetz, Scientific Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft’s Open Innovation in Science Center in Vienna who noted “I believe that applying the concept of Open Innovation to the science context holds great potential. It enables us to broaden the possibilities of leveraging openness and collaboration along the entire process of generating and disseminating new scientific insight, better understand and consider relevant boundary conditions and based on this, design more impactful ways of sourcing knowledge from external stakeholders and/or co-creating research together with relevant external knowledge holders. To this end, openness and collaboration are not ends but rather potentially powerful means for improving scientific research in terms of novelty, efficiency and societal impact.”

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