Course: Openness in Science and Innovation

Collaboration in the sciences is ubiquitous and highly demanded. Yet, there are challenges and problems that impede productive and intense collaboration. In particular, problems emerging from different epistemic values and …

The current dominating evaluative regime in the sciences is extremely competitive and the evaluation of scholarly research – though a bunch of diverse measures exist – are rather narrowly applied …

According to some promotors of Open Science, at least some of these challenges and problems in scholarly collaboration can be overcome. With the sciences becoming more digital, expectations have risen …

Did this vision come true? At least, novel and different forms of collaborative knowledge production (some of which already were in place) were established or (further) developed, using or increasingly …

Now it gets technical. We will introduce three knowledge production modes which differ in their approach and purpose. Have you ever thought about the differences between the traditional basic research …

How is collaboration in the sciences practiced and how do digital technologies affect collaboration? In the following we deal with collaborations in academia – how the trend towards participation as …

Why is collaboration important for the scholarly enterprise? In public discussions, the sciences are often perceived as providing the ideal conditions for collaboration: autonomy and academic freedom, it is argued …

In the fifth section, we look closer at the forms of collaboration which universities are developing with their partners to make optimal use of their complementary roles and needs. While …

In this concluding section, we look at the success factors of regional innovation ecosystems, which seek organisational, social and spatial coherence to foster connectivity and innovation dynamics across the triple …

Let’s start with the big societal developments and trends that impact the subjects that are taught and also how they are taught. We have collected them for you: Trends and …

Universities changed from very elitist institutions to what they are today. As you will see, the historical evolution of universities is quite fascinating. The earliest concept of universities was the …

In this video, we look more closely at some examples from different universities across Europe (Aalto University, Finland, Technical University Eindhoven, Netherlands, Manchester University, UK, and Technical University Munich, Germany) …

You probably know from your own experience: The requirements and expectations of society for higher education are changing. Universities of the future need to position themselves to justify their existence …

In the following, we focus on the notion of the innovation ecosystem. Innovation systems are characterised by intertwined roles of universities, companies and state agencies. Their close collaboration has been …

Now, we focus on the emerging central role of universities as an orchestrator of innovation. This role results in – and is enabled by – far-reaching institutional transformation that concerns …