1. 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

2. …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.

3. 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.”

4. 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?

5. “…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.”

6. 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

7. Training

8. 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.

9. 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

10. Library-based OS training

11. 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?

12. Research

13. 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?

14. 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.

15. Programs and services by category

16. Programs and services by category

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. Discussion Are these the right capacities for us to focus on?
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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?