Libraries and Open Innovation: LBG Open Innovation in Science Center Libraries and Open Innovation: From Capacity Building to Research Translation Dr. Marcel LaFlamme August 21, 2019

…to participation and impact From openness… Researchers, funders, and other stakeholders increasingly share a vision of the science system that includes open access to publications and sharing of research data “by default.” …to participation and impact Broader questions are moving to the fore around whose knowledge informs the research process and how (or whether) research gets taken up outside of the academy in industry, government, and civil society.

What role should libraries play? “As knowledge repositories and through the expansion of knowledge mediation and exchange processes, libraries could become a nexus for open science and innovation processes.”

Orienting questions What are libraries currently doing (and not doing) to respond to these developments in the science system? What core competencies do libraries bring to this work, and when does it make more sense to partner with other actors? How might research on open innovation in science help to inform library strategies and practices?

“…a process of purposively enabling, initiating, and managing inbound and outbound knowledge flows and collaboration across organizational and disciplinary boundaries along all stages of the scientific research process.”

What counts as OIS? Citizen and crowd science “Conventional” open science: open access, open data, open review Citizen and crowd science Academic engagement / public scholarship / “third mission” Academic entrepreneurship / technology transfer Inter/transdisciplinary research

Training

Lab for Open Innovation in Science Focuses on opening up the production of scientific knowledge and translating it into innovation. Our second cohort completed the yearlong program in March 2019. Other formats have included a one-week summer school.

LOIS topics Creating and Capturing Value Science-Based Entrepreneurship Open Innovation Basics External Partnering for Commercialization Applying Open Innovation in Science Technological Competence Leveraging Individual Capacities for Openness Ecosystems for Open Innovation Crowd Science and Crowd Funding Disseminating and Communicating User-Driven Science Integrating Open Practices Collaborative Science

Library-based OS training

Discussion Where are the gaps in the library-based OS training? Could incorporating OIS topics into OS training help libraries to address emerging issues of participation and impact? What resources and formats might be useful?

Research

Domain-specific subquestion Research question What are the interactional, organizational, and environmental factors that support or block the adoption of OIS practices? Domain-specific subquestion To what extent and in what specific capacities can libraries play a role in supporting the adoption of OIS practices?

From the literature Library support for translational research “from the bench to the bedside and beyond.” A funding scheme administered by NIH, linked to 60+ research centers at US universities.

Programs and services by category

Programs and services by category

Case: Partners in Research Series of library-based health research forums intended to increase public interest and trust in clinical research. Expert presentation on health topic paired with information on clinical research process: some evidence of increased participation. Forums relied on an antipolitical framing of “information exchange” and were not designed to draw out community expertise.

Discoverability Convening Surfacing scientific research to diverse publics and enabling its value beyond the academy to be realized. Convening Staging opportunities for encounter and cocreation in which conflicts over values can be identified and explored.

Discussion Are these the right capacities for us to focus on? Keep in touch https://ois.lbg.ac.at marcel.laflamme@lbg.ac.at spinsterofutica Are these the right capacities for us to focus on? Are there libraries doing especially interesting work in these areas? How, if at all, can you see research like ours informing your own open science work?