With openness, it is important to weigh up: Where and when should there be openness? Who should participate? What is shared, when and how? How is the process organized? We call this consideration strategic openness. Of course, this also means that not everything is always and constantly disclosed. There are good reasons not to make ideas, processes and data accessible.

For us, openness in research and innovation includes a culture of collaboration, strategic planning (Strategic Openness), and concrete Open Practices.

Open Practices are lived along the research and innovation process and are manifested in concepts such as Open Data, Open Access or Co-Creation. They are based on different tools and methods and require specific skills and abilities for implementation (Future Skills for Openness).

Our vision is that the actors create an open ecosystem and develop new insights, sustainable solutions and innovations for society together.

Our new value proposition for the community:

Open Innovation and Open Science practitioners meet here to share opportunities and challenges, learn from each other, and search for solutions together so that they can live a culture of openness and bring it to the world.

It is often individuals who demand change and drive innovation with high intrinsic motivation. They follow a vision, influence discourses, overcome resistance and develop new standards. This is also the case with openness. However, there is often still a lack of appropriate skills and capabilities to bring Open Practices into widespread use and, accordingly, targeted support services are needed.

In this field of action, ınnOscı places a special focus on Future Skills for Openness, which are relevant for both science and business.

Our global challenges are complex. They can neither be understood nor solved if they are not viewed from different perspectives and the system is not comprehend as a whole. In order to solve socially relevant issues, for example in the areas of mobility, energy, climate or health, and to open up new fields of innovation, multi-stakeholder-processes, which is organized across sectors and disciplines, are needed accordingly. The ways and methods for this are diverse, so it requires a testing of different approaches in a protected space.

In this field of action, ınnOscı focuses in particular on multi-stakeholder processes between the business and science sectors.

Organizations need to clarify what additional value they expect for their own profile and mission by opening up processes and practices, and what forms of collaboration are appropriate. In order to support organizational change, incentive structures and implementation stimuli are needed.

In this context, it is important to clarify the above-mentioned strategic questions and to focus on forms of cooperation with non-academic partners, to learn from each other and to use new instruments.

Strategic Openness takes into account and explores opportunities and potentials along with boundaries and safe spaces, and provides moderators and intermediaries as well as (learning) networks. This requires impulses from science and practice, a reflection of necessary framework conditions and solution proposals for more openness on the systemic level.

In this field of action, ınnOscı moderates a dialog platform for the different sectors, participates in discussions, and, as a think tank, conducts analyses and formulates recommendations for policy action.