Course: Openness in Science and Innovation

Why is measuring innovation considered to be important? Currently, innovation seems to be everywhere. Innovation is perceived as a driver for societal change, for productivity and industrial change. Enterprises, governments, …

The Open Science and Open Innovation movement have established new perspectives towards these ways of measuring innovation and research. From the perspective of Open Science and Open Innovation, what is …

We know what the publishing process looks like. Another important question we have to consider is how can I assess the publisher’s quality? There is a significant number of journals, …

Science Communication Fecher, B., & Friesike, S. (2014). ‘Open Science: One Term, Five Schools of Thought’. Bartling S. & Friesike S. (eds) Opening Science, pp. 17–47. Springer International Publishing: Cham. …

Successful innovation requires an ecosystem – we should always follow the rule “never innovate alone”. Therefore, we have collected a few very important points on successful innovation and here you …

In this part you will learn why today’s universities need to change to justify their place in today’s complex and inter-disciplinary innovation ecosystems. Furthermore, you will learn about two concepts …

This video shows a vision for Open Social Innovation in the future. As demonstrated with the case of ProjectTogether, the digital space offers promising opportunities to build an engaged community …

The following video focuses on the “verifiability”-aspect. It is not just about providing access to the data and the source code. Several studies showed that the analysis might still not …

This session is complemented by an expert interview with Dr. PD Birte Fähnrich (FU Berlin), in which we will learn more about hostility towards science and science scepticism.

In this step we are taking a closer look at the Open Social Innovation process as outlined in the Paper by Mair and Gegenhuber (2021). As a process, open social …

The aspect of learning in open social innovation processes In the video, different potentials and challenges are explained in detail. In terms of potentials it should be added that different …

Welcome to week 5 and congratulations! You’re halfway through the course. Watch the video to get an introduction to the week.

This session is complemented by an expert interview with Prof. Stephanie Molthagen-Schnöring (HTW Berlin), in which we will learn more about the role of universities in enabling science communication.

This session is complemented by an expert interview with Prof. Christoph Neuberger (FU Berlin, Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society), in which we will learn more about the implications of …

Watch the video to get an orientation about the content of the new week.