OIS Research Conference 2026

► Submission

The submission system is closed.

► Registration

Given this year’s venue setup, we are more flexible than in previous years regarding conference participation and are able to welcome attendees also without a paper presentation or other predefined role.

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► Conference program

In addition to inspirational Paper Sessions on different processes, effects and boundary conditions of open and collaborative science and science-based innovation, the conference program includes plenary sessions related to this year’s conference theme (Science-Policy Relations: What is the role of openness and collaboration?) such as: 

• a Keynote speech by Ben Jones (Professor at Northwestern University)
• Special-theme Keynote speech by Michiel Scheffer (President, European Innovation Council (EIC) Board)
• an OIS Debate (co-sponsored by AoM TIM Division) with Brandi Geurkink (Executive Director of the Coalition for Independent Tech Research), Dietmar Harhoff (Director at Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition), Stinus Lindgreen (Member of the Danish Parliament for The Social Liberal Party), Peter Møllgaard (President of Copenhagen Business School), and Reinhilde Veugelers (Professor at KU Leuven)
• an OIS Experiment where we “walk the talk“ by engaging in and reflecting on novel ways of doing research

The 2026-conference will feature an additional OIS Panel on open university-industry collaboration with Mikkel Bülow Skovborg (Vice President at The Novo Nordisk Foundation), Karina Fog (Senior Director, H. Lundbeck A/S), Markus Koester (Director Scientific Alliance Management at Boehringer Ingelheim), Ammon Salter (Professor at Warwick Business School), and Kristian Strømgaard (Professor, University of Copenhagen), co-sponsored by the Open Innovation in Science Center at Aarhus University.

The conference also organizes a Junior Paper Development Workshop on May 13 in the afternoon, co-sponsered by Warwick Business School. Junior scholars (PhDs and post-docs) can indicate their interest in participating and receiving personalized in-depth feedback from senior mentors during the abstract submission process.

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

► Paper Sessions Overview

Session 1 | Geopolitical and Security Conditions for Openness and Collaboration in Science

• Paper 1: When Borders Disrupt Science: Causal Evidence on Research Productivity, Talent Mobility, and Collaboration Networks from Brexit – Marc Diederichs, Charlotte Musso, Carolin Haeussler
• Paper 2: Navigating Research Security: UK Academics’ Responses and Implications for their International Collaboration – Andrew James, Xiuqin Li, Cornelia Lawson
• Paper 3: Tracking Scientific Decoupling in the Era of New Techno-Nationalism: The U.S. CHIPS and Science Act and International Collaboration – Lorenzo Palladini, Valentina Tartari
• Paper 4: Threat to Open Science? The Impact of Cyberattacks on Research Performance in Higher Education – Matthias Huegel, Stefan Buechele

Session 2 | Academic Engagement and Knowledge Governance

• Paper 5: Academic Engagement with Industry, the Public Sector and Society: A Comparison of Disciplines and Gender – Sofie Cairo, Davide Cannito, Hans Christian Kongsted, Valentina Tartari
• Paper 6: From Public Policy to Public Awareness: Science Communication as an Enabler of Academic Engagement in Peripheral Regions – Stefan Buechele, Guido Buenstorf, Burcu Özgün, Pia Schoch
• Paper 7: Making Sense Together: Co-Creative Sensemaking for the Formation of R&D Projects in Open Innovation in Science Platforms – Amalie Due Svendsen, George Salter, Maria-Theresa Norn, Irene Ramos-Vielba, Carter Walter Bloch
• Paper 8: Neither Through Cooperation nor Separation: Enacting Dual Brokerage Strategies for Innovation Performance – Pablo D’Este, Oscar Llopis, Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado, Adrián A. Diaz-Faes

Session 3 | Policy, Regulation, and the Co-Production of Scientific Knowledge

• Paper 9: Regulators as Producers of Science: Evidence from a Twin-Discovery Design – Quentin Plantec, Karine Revet
• Paper 10: Commercial Regulation and the Production of Science: Evidence from New Genomic Techniques in Agricultural Biotechnology – Elisabeth Hofmeister, Samantha Zyontz, Rosemarie Ziedonis
• Paper 11: Foundational Scientific Capacity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries after TRIPS – Gabriel Cavalli, Michael Blomfield, Anita M. McGahan, Keyvan Vakili

Session 4 | AI and the Reconfiguration of Collaborative Knowledge Production

• Paper 12: A Structured Literature Review on the Scientific Discourse around GenAI’s Impact on Distant Collaboration – Lebogang Nthoiwa, Susanne Beck, Joe Nandhakumar
• Paper 13: Generative AI and the Organization of Scientific Teams – Stefano Bianchini, Georgiana-Iona Coroama
• Paper 14: Generative AI and Collaboration in Academic Open Innovation Ecosystems: Accelerator or Inhibitor of Innovation? – Xiangrui Zeng, Gernot Pruschak

Session 5 | Microfoundations of Openness: Motivation, Attention, and Evaluation

• Paper 15: Can Probabilities Rescue Risky Science? A Field Experiment on Grant Peer Review – Christoph Grimpe, Lakshya Katariya, Cindy Lopes Bento
• Paper 16: Expertise and Attention: How Variance in Evaluator Experience Influences the Selection of Scientific Ideas – Priscilla Serwaah, Jacob Lund Orquin, Lars Frederiksen
• Paper 17: Rethinking Research Assessment: Participatory Design and Incentives for Open and Collaborative Research – Marion Garaus, Nora Ruck, Anoel Alshuth, Dominik Drexel, Jonas Hofmann
• Paper 18: The Itch to Know: A New Look at the Role of Interest in Science – Henry Sauermann

Session 6 | Uncertainty and Value Signals in Generating and Translating Science

• Paper 19: “Who Gets In?” Corporate Affiliation, Reviewer Discourse, and Manuscript Selection in AI Research – Quentin Plantec, Etienne Capron, Florian Carichon, Romain Rampa
• Paper 20: Does Fraudulent Science Hurt Biomedical Entrepreneurship? Evidence From Venture Capital – Jiancong Liu, Moksh Matta, Yi Ding, Haifeng Xu, Rajiv Kozhikode
• Paper 21: Serendipity and Unequal Returns to Discovery – Andres Madariaga Espinoza, Stijn Kelchtermans
• Paper 22: Misleading Science Maps: Firms’ Strategic Responses to Data Malpractice in Alzheimer’s Research – Matteo Tranchero, Christian Fons Rosen, Lee Fleming

Session 7 | Crowd Science and Public Participation

• Paper 23: Listening to the Crowd? Experts‘ Responsiveness to Knowledge versus Preference Inputs in Project Selection – Susanne Beck, Egor Burda, Marion Poetz, Henry Sauermann
• Paper 24: Open to All? Unequal Participation in Citizen Science and What it Means for Open Innovation – Daniel Dörler, Gabriele Reithner, Clemens Posselt, Barbara Heinisch, Florian Heigl, Daniel Kräftner, Katharina Paul
• Paper 25: Basic Psychological Needs and Crowd Science for Tackling Grand Challenges: Insights from East Africa’s Coffee Sector – Caroline Kunesch, Christian Garaus

Session 8 | Data Ecosystems and Commons for Open and Collaborative Science

• Paper 26: Industrial Data Ecosystems: Orchestrating Multi-lateral Data Sharing for Productivity and Policy Impact – Krithika Randhawa
• Paper 27: Commoning Complexity for Actionable Data: Organizing Shared Sensor Data for Societal Impact through Leveraging Relational Infrastructures – Julia Christis, Lukas Falcke, Philipp Tuertscher, Hans Berends
• Paper 28: Decentralizing Science: Market and Commons Pathways – Paolo Leone

Session 9 | Translating Scientific Knowledge into Innovation and the Role of IP

• Paper 29: The Two Sides of Intellectual Property Rights in Shaping Scientific Research in Genomics – Sina Sokhan, Arvids Ziedonis
• Paper 30: Joining the Medicines Patent Pool: Virtuousness Is More than Its Own Reward – Karen Ruckman, Ian McCarthy
• Paper 31: The Role of Young PhD Inventors in Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Testing Cumulative Advantages – Mercedes Delgado, Julian Kolev, Fiona Murray
• Paper 32: A Behavioral Process Perspective on Knowledge and Technology Transfer – Uwe Cantner, Lukas Dreier, Maximilian Goethner, Matthias Huegel, Martin Kalthaus, Indira Yarullina

Session 10 | Enabling Inter- and Transdisciplinary Collaborations in Science

• Paper 33: How Digitization Shapes Scientific Collaboration: Evidence from Electronic Health Records – Max Wang
• Paper 34: Interdisciplinary Outsiders: Early-Career Pathways and the Legitimation of Cross-Boundary Science – Xin Deng, Cornelia Lawson
• Paper 35: Fairness Sustains Collaboration in Scientific Teams – Ting Xiao, Andrew Herman, Mathias Nielsen
• Paper 36: Finding Common Language Through Use Cases in Interdisciplinary Research Projects – Guillaume Yon, Patrick Pollock, Frank Piller

OIS Practice Paper Session 

• Practice Paper 1: Recontextualizing Open Science Through Co-designed Mandates and Policies: The Case of FedOSC – Judith Birneaux, Nienke Roelants, Marc Vanholsbeeck, Marie-Sophie Bercegeay, Anna Miglio, Francis Strobbe, Annerose Tartler-Ostrizek
• Practice Paper 2: Operationalizing Open Innovation in Science through Living Labs: Lessons from a State-Level Program in Brazil – Silvio Bitencourt da Silva
• Practice Paper 3: Language, AI and Science-Policy Relations: Openness and Collaboration in the UniTermGPT Project – Barbara Heinisch
• Practice Paper 4: Openness and Collaboration in Science-Policy Relations: Institutional Findings from Three Innovation Funding Ecosystems – Seyed Reza Mirnezami, Ahmad Keykha, Sajedeh Sadat Hosseini, Ali Maleki
• Practice Paper 5: Reframing University Technology Transfer as Public Value: Evidence from the Chilean Context – Aldonza Jaques, Ana Araya, Etienne Choupay
• Practice Paper 6: Funding Open Science in the Finnish Research Community – Ilmari Jauhiainen
• Practice Paper 7: The Seedcase Project: Data Engineering Tools for Building and Managing Open and FAIR Research Data – Kristiane Beicher, Signe K. Brødbæk, Luke Johnston, Joel Ostblom, Marton Vago
• Practice Paper 8: Generating New Insights into Diseases with High Unmet Medical Need: The Impact of the Open Innovation Portal opnMe.com on Scientific Research – Markus Koester, Menorca Chaturvedi, Oliver Kraemer, Thorsten Laux, Sven Thamm, Florian Montel
• Practice Paper 9: From the EIF to the EOSC IF: Making the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Interoperable by Design by Following the Recommendations of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) – Miguel Rey Mazón
• Practice Paper 10: Hybrid Intelligence Foresight: Open and Collaborative Platforms for Democratizing Participatory Futures through AI-Augmented Collective Intelligence – Janet Rafner, Adam Gordon, Carina Antonia Hallin, Blanka Zana, Jacob Sherson
• Practice Paper 11: Ukraine’s Measures in the Field of Developing Digital Infrastructure for Open Scientific Space at the Domestic and International Levels – Anatolii Shyian, Liliia Nikiforova
• Practice Paper 12: Open Science and Participatory Innovation in Early Mother–Infant Feeding Research – Anika Stephan
• Practice Paper 13: Open Science and Collaboration in Horizon Europe: The Key Impact Pathway Approach – Leonardo Zanobetti, Roberto Volpe, Guillermo Kreiman Seguer, Daniel Neicu
• Practice Paper 14: Liberata – Open Access Academic Publishing with Incentivized Quality Controls and Improved Scientometrics – Han Zhang, Anshuman Sabath, L. Catherine Brinson

► Practicalities and conference fee

The conference will be an in-person meeting at Copenhagen Business School (Kilen Campus: Kilevej 14A, 2000 Frederiksberg), with online streaming for selected sessions to enable participation for a broader audience. The core conference program will commence on May 11 early afternoon and conclude on May 13 early afternoon (see program overview). We expect participants to attend the entire program.

The conference fee is 250 Euros. PhD students facing financial constraints can pay a reduced fee of 100 Euros upon prior agreement with the conference organizers. The conference fee covers all meals including a fabulous conference dinner at Restaurant Spiseloppen in the free town Christiania.

► Accommodation

We recommend finalizing your accommodation plans as soon as possible. We recommend the following hotels, from which the conference venue can be reached easily and quickly:

• Premium: Scandic Falkoner Hotel
• Medium: Ibsens Hotel
• Budget: Wakeup Borgergade