OIS Research Conference 2025

The 2025 special conference theme focuses on The Future of Academia-Industry Collaboration: Drivers, Opportunities, and Risks of Novel Forms of Engagement. While traditional models such as technology transfer or public-private partnerships remain important, new models are emerging that are more dynamic, flexible, and open, integrating multiple stakeholder groups. These approaches emphasize co-creation, open sharing and reuse of data, materials, or equipment, and foster iterative feedback between researchers and industry professionals throughout the design, implementation, and translation of scientific research projects. By doing so, they aim to achieve not only breakthroughs in scientific discovery but also a higher likelihood of translation into societally relevant innovations.

► Conference program

In addition to paper presentation sessions revolving around different topics of openness and collaboration in scientific research and science-based innovation, the conference program includes a keynote by Scott Stern (Professor at MIT Sloan), a panel debate (co-sponsored by AoM TIM division) with Marie Louise Conradsen (Head of Open Innovation in Science at Aarhus University), Thomas Durcan (Director, The Neuro’s Early Drug Discovery Unit (EDDU), McGill University), Lee Fleming (Professor at University of California, Berkeley), Maria Theresa Norn (Associate Professor at DTU), and Brian Uzzi (Professor at Northwestern University), and as usual an OIS Experiment where we “walk the talk“ by engaging in and reflecting on novel ways of doing research.

The plenary sessions will link to the special conference theme (The Future of Academia- Industry Collaboration: Drivers, Opportunities, and Risks of Novel Forms of Engagement). Given the positive feedback in 2024, the conference continues with its Junior Paper Development Workshop, co-sponsored by Warwick Business School (WBS), inviting junior scholars (PhDs and post-docs) who submitted their work for presentation to receive personalized in-depth feedback from senior scholars on May 16 in the afternoon. 

Program overview (please click on the image to enlarge):

► Paper Sessions Overview

Session 1 | University-Industry Collaboration

• Paper 1: The Republic of Translational Medicine – Johnathon Liddicoat, James Parish, Mateo Aboy
• Paper 2: Insolubility as a goal: Joint U-I labs for sustaining paradoxes in collaborative research – Elise Ratier, Quentin Plantec, Pascal Le Masson, Benoit Weil
• Paper 3: The effect of publicly co-funded industry-science collaboration on scientific production – Cindy Lopes Bento, Paul Hünermund, Maikel Pellens

Session 2 | Science-Innovation Nexus

• Paper 4: A scientist-inventor crosswalk – Emma Scharfmann, Matt Marx, Lee Fleming
• Paper 5: The evolution of corporate science in Europe: Characterizing publication patterns and scientific novelty – Alejandro Raga Espinosa, Oscar Llopis
• Paper 6: Scientists in Stokes’ Quadrants: Unveiling research impact, collaboration, and competition – Carolin Haeussler, Charlotte Musso, Maria P. Roche

Session 3 | Crowd and Citizen Science

• Paper 7: Balancing societal and scientific impact: Investigating the role of public and patient involvement (PPI) in medical research – Paul Anckaert, Egor Burda, Christoph Grimpe, Paul Hünermund, Marion Poetz, Rossella Salandra
• Paper 8: Leveraging the collaborative power of AI and citizen science for sustainable development – Dilek Fraisl, Linda See, Muki Haklay, Steffen Fritz, Ian McCallum
• Paper 9: No crowdless future? Potential roles of AI in different crowd paradigms – Linus Dahlander, Henry Sauermann

Session 4 | Organizational Design for Openness and Collaboration in Science

• Paper 10: Building Open Science ecosystems: Insights from the iGEM synthetic biology competition – Olga Kokshagina, Marc Santolini
• Paper 11: Exploring professional identity transformation of scientists through capability-building interventions – Veronika Kentošová, Marion Poetz, Agnieszka Radziwon
• Paper 12: Moral imperatives of novel industry-academic collaboration networks: Rise and fall of external legitimacy in value ambiguity – Robin Gustafsson, Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa

Session 5 | AI and Open Science Governance

• Paper 13: The governance of open science: A comparative analysis of two open science consortia – Ellen Abrams, Paolo V. Leone, Alberto Cambrosio, Samer Faraj
• Paper 14: Equalizers or amplifiers? How Generative AI reshapes scientific inequality through open-access citations – Xinyin Tang, Yi Ding, Zhewei Zhang
• Paper 15: Generative AI and Open Science: The impact of large language models on open-access publishing and the publishing ecosystem – Gernot Pruschak

Session 6 | Inter- and Transdisciplinary Collaboration

• Paper 16: From the Ivory Tower to Capitol Hill: Which academics get a voice in congress? – Astrid Ulv Thomsen, Yotam Sofer
• Paper 17: Contests and technology transfer: Effectiveness, demand incentives and negotiation support – Xavier Durán, Jorge Guerra, Beatriz Yemail
• Paper 18: Joining evenly while remaining unlike: How do plural and balanced participation in inter-sectoral research collaborations influence scientific impact? – Pablo D’Este, Fredrik N. Piro, Dima Yankova, Siri Borlaug, Alfredo Yegros

Session 7 | Scientists‘ Careers and Contributions

• Paper 19: From rejection to revival: How scientists re-propose ideas to new audiences – Johanna Schnier, Valentina Tartari
• Paper 20: Being your own Master: How constraints on academic freedom affect graduates’ career choices – Hans Christian Kongsted, Yotam Sofer, Valentina Tartari
• Paper 21: Quantifying scientific recognition process in complex awarding systems – Ching Jin, Yifang Ma, Anthony Olejniczak, Brian Uzzi

OIS Case Session 

• Case 1: The contributions of citizen science to SDG monitoring and reporting on marine plastics – Dilek Fraisl, Linda See, Rachel Bowers, Omar Seidu, Kwame Boakye Fredua, Anne Bowser, Metis Meloche, Sarah Weller, Tyler Amaglo-Kobla, Dany Ghafari, Juan Carlos Laso Bayas, Jillian Campbell, Grant Cameron, Steffen Fritz, Ian McCallum
• Case 2: Linking transfer activities with their societal impact in early-stage applied research processes – Elisabeth Heine, Samira Lambertz, Oliver Pänke
• Case 3: The Cancer Mission Lab: Bridging distant knowledge systems in mission-driven funding – Thomas Palfinger, Lara Arth, Mathieu Mahve-Beydokhti
• Case 4: Empowering researchers for Open Science: The impact of OLS programs – Doaa Abdelkader