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Call for Abstracts
Open Innovation in Science (OIS) Research Conference 2026
May 11-13 | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Dear colleagues,
We invite you to join the discussion about the processes, effects, and boundary conditions of openness and collaboration in scientific research at the upcoming 7th OIS Research Conference.
We welcome submissions, both empirical and conceptual in nature, related to:
Track 1: Open and collaborative approaches along the entire scientific research process, including opportunities, challenges, and contingency factors (e.g., university-industry collaborations, transdisciplinary research approaches, crowd and citizen science, open data sharing/reusing).
Track 2: Ecosystems and organizational designs facilitating or constraining open and collaborative research approaches including, for example, institutional, regulatory or IP-related factors.
Track 3: Micro-foundations of open and collaborative research approaches including, for example, scientists' capabilities, motivations or career paths.
Special conference theme track: Science-policy relations: What is the role of openness and collaboration
The 2026 special conference theme focuses on Science-Policy Relations: What is the role of openness and collaboration? We will discuss how science and policy shape each other in tackling complex global challenges and explore science-policy interactions as a two-way, evolving relationship, asking how openness and collaboration can both enable and complicate the pursuit of evidence that is usable, trustworthy, and aligned with democratic values.
In addition to the paper presentation sessions and opportunities for socializing, the conference program features multiple session formats, including Keynote speeches, an OIS Debate, co-sponsored with AoM TIM Division, and an OIS Experimentation Session, and a Junior Paper Development Workshop. Some inspiring speakers and panelists include Ben Jones (Northwestern University), Brandi Geurkink (Coalition for Independent Tech Research), Dietmar Harhoff (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition), and Reinhilde Veugelers (KU Leuven).
Continuing the discussion on the future of university-industry collaboration from the 2025 conference, we are happy to announce a follow-up panel on how, and under what conditions, open university-industry collaboration models support corporate innovation and the creation of deep-tech start-ups, featuring speakers such as Mikkel Bülow Skovborg (Novo Nordisk Foundation) and Markus Koester (Boehringer Ingelheim, opnMe).
Join us in Copenhagen, share and discuss your ongoing research, and become part of the next OIS Experiment! We look forward to receiving your submissions.
The 2026 Organizing Team (Susanne Beck, Christoph Grimpe, Maria-Theresa Norn, Marion Poetz, Henry Sauermann, and Astrid Ulv Thomsen)
Email to: contact@ois-research-conference.org
Web: https://ois-research-conference.org
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Susanne Beck
TIM PDW Chair
Warwick Business School
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