Evaluating Open Science for the Co-creation of Social Innovations: A Conceptual Framework | European Public & Social Innovation Review

From Google's English:  Abstract:  Open Science is a rapidly expanding and diversifying field of social innovation, with significant implications and potential benefits for society, policy, and various areas of academic research. However, much remains unknown about co-creation processes in Open Science, and a general conceptual framework to aid understanding is lacking. This article aims to address these limitations and identify the key dimensions of an ecosystem that enables co-creation in Open Science to unleash its social and economic impact. The presented research integrates the analysis of the literature on co-creation in multi-stakeholder ecosystems and suggests three important dimensions to be considered in the assessment of Open Science ecosystems: framework conditions, system conditions, and outcomes. The proposed model has been applied in the qualitative analysis of thirty-three Open Science case studies. From the assessment results, it can be concluded that the Open Science landscape is highly heterogeneous, fragmented, and not fully coordinated. Fragmentation appears in all dimensions of the assessment. The research results provide a first exploratory step toward proposing innovative measures to identify key elements of co-creation practices in the context of Open Science.