Some questions about open innovation in science
Authors: Liubchych Anna 
Published: June 2024

Problem setting. Scientists across disciplines are increasingly hearing calls for a more open and collaborative approach to scientific research. The concept of Open Innovation in Science (OIS) provides a framework that brings together disparate research efforts aimed at understanding the preconditions, contingencies, and consequences of open and collaborative research practices. While the OIS framework has been embraced by scholars, its conceptual foundations need further clarification. Analysis of recent researches and publications. The OIS approach has already been used by researchers of science and innovation, in particular, Bahlai C., Bartlett L. J., Burgio K. R., Beck S., Bergenholtz C., Bogers M., Bogers M., Zobel A.-K. and others, who tried to apply it to new empirical contexts and critically examine its basic assumptions. This, in turn, emphasized the need for clarification and further improvement. Purpose of the research. The purpose of the article is to analyze the relationship between the OIS and OI research frameworks more broadly, with a particular focus on defining the boundaries that knowledge flows should cross in the context of openness and collaboration in science. Article’s main body. By putting forward the concept of open innovation in science, we are not calling for greater participation of scientists in industry-specific Open Innovations (hereinafter referred to as OI), nor do we see OIS primarily as an attempt to achieve a “closer connection” between industry and science. Rather, we argue that the ideas about new ways of acquiring knowledge and creating value developed and tested in OI research can help us understand current developments in science. As diverse as the scientific system is, we suggest that widespread trends toward greater openness and collaboration have implications in different contexts and levels of analysis that OI science can potentially illuminate. Openness of the research process has at times been seen almost as an end in itself, rather than as a means to improve results. In contrast, OI has adopted a contingent view of openness as a means, under certain conditions, to achieve greater business productivity. The OIS formulation suggests that such a casual view can also be useful for science, so that openness is seen as a means to other ends that need to be determined on a case-by-case basis. Conclusions and prospects for the development. The main disadvantage of Ukrainian science is that there are many scientific results, but there is usually no or passive promotion of them into practice. As a result, new ideas are implemented in other countries by other scientists. It is necessary to be able to promote your ideas and new developments – this is a special art that should be learned. The link between open science and open innovation plays a key role in fostering relationships between businesses and academic institutions that contribute to the economic growth of developing countries. Open science can facilitate the development of new approaches and the creation of business innovations that play a fundamental role in ensuring economic growth and increasing the competitiveness of companies.