Open data partnerships between firms and universities: The role of boundary organizations

•Firms increasingly participate in open data initiatives where scientific data and results are published with no restriction.•Studying the case of the Structural Genomics Consortium, we explore how firms can overcome the key challenges of open data to benefit from it.•We find that boundary organizat...

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Vydáno v:Research policy Ročník 44; číslo 5; s. 1133 - 1143
Hlavní autoři: Perkmann, Markus, Schildt, Henri
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.06.2015
Elsevier Sequoia S.A
Témata:
Boundary organization
Companies
Competitiveness
Competitors
Consortia
Data
Disclosure
Educational partnerships
Genomics
Industrial R&D
Information sharing
Motivation
Open data
Open innovation
Organizations
Partnerships
R&D
Research & development
Research and development
Research partnership
Research partnerships
Science
Scientists
Selective revealing
Structural change
Studies
Universities
University–industry relations
Boundary organization
Selective revealing
Industrial R&D
University–industry relations
Open innovation
Research partnership
Open data
ISSN:0048-7333, 1873-7625
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Shrnutí:•Firms increasingly participate in open data initiatives where scientific data and results are published with no restriction.•Studying the case of the Structural Genomics Consortium, we explore how firms can overcome the key challenges of open data to benefit from it.•We find that boundary organizations facilitate open data by reconciling the goals of firms, academics, and science funders.•Boundary organizations enable firms to reveal R&D problems by minimizing adverse information leaks and motivating academics to pursue research agendas shaped by corporations. Science-intensive firms are experimenting with ‘open data’ initiatives, involving collaboration with academic scientists whereby all results are published with no restriction. Firms seeking to benefit from open data face two key challenges: revealing R&D problems may leak valuable information to competitors, and academic scientists may lack motivation to address problems posed by firms. We explore how firms overcome these challenges through an inductive study of the Structural Genomics Consortium. We find that the operation of the consortium as a boundary organization provided two core mechanisms to address the above challenges. First, through mediated revealing, the boundary organization allowed firms to disclose R&D problems while minimizing adverse competitive consequences. Second, by enabling multiple goals the boundary organization increased the attractiveness of industry-informed agendas for academic scientists. We work our results into a grounded model of boundary organizations as a vehicle for open data initiatives. Our study contributes to research on public–private research partnerships, knowledge revealing and boundary organizations.
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ISSN:0048-7333
1873-7625
DOI:10.1016/j.respol.2014.12.006