The context of crowdsourcing: A driver of organizational openness?
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The document discusses crowdsourcing as a means to enhance organizational openness and the importance of collaborative, data-driven approaches in scientific research. It emphasizes the need for greater transparency and standardization in data sharing within the scientific community, as well as the development of tools for data analysis. Additionally, it highlights the complexities of scientific innovation within a sociological context and the necessity of evaluating multi-stakeholder collaborations in biomedical innovation.
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The context of crowdsourcing: A driver of organizational openness?
- 1. The context of crowdsourcing: A driver of organiza7onal openness? David C. Thompson Jörg Bentzien
- 3. Weak • A loosely connected network of individuals who, through internet enabled services and community, can be engaged in a full spectrum of ac7vi7es ranging from micro-‐ task through to mul7-‐hour research project. • Such actors may associate with skills-‐based communi7es that have no connec7on with the pharmaceu7cal industry, or healthcare.
- 4. Jörg Bentzien, Ingo Muegge, Ben Hamner, and David C. Thompson, “Crowd compu7ng: Using compe77ve dynamics to develop and refine highly predic7ve models” Drug Discov. Today. 18 472 (2013)
- 5. “What is described is a process for organizational Exploration in the face of the need to determine objective solutions. The process uses the dynamics of ‘Exploit’, to enable Exploration in an open and transparent fashion. What is described will not replace the scientific method, or robust hypothesis generation and evaluation. In our experience this process generated a host of solutions that are statistically equivalent, and of a variety of different complexities of implementation.” “We don’t know it all: Crowd compu7ng to develop and refine predic7ve in silico models”, Jörg Bentzien, David C. Thompson, and Ingo Muegge, The Gordon Research Conference on Computer-‐Aided Drug Design, West Dover, VT (2013)
- 8. Open Science • Scien7sts need to be more open among themselves and with the public and media • Greater recogni7on needs to be given to the value of data gathering, analysis and communica7on • Common standards for sharing informa7on are required to make it widely usable • Publishing data in a reusable form to support findings must be mandatory • More experts in managing and suppor7ng the use of digital data are required • New sobware tools need to be developed to analyze the growing amount of data being gathered. Royal Society (Great Britain)., and Policy Studies Unit. 2012. Science as an Open Enterprise.
- 10. Consor7um Fa7gue “We need an evidence-‐based approach -‐ a science of collabora7on -‐ to evaluate and inform the evolving mul7-‐stakeholder collabora7on environment in biomedical innova7on.” Papadaki, M. and Hirsch, G. (2013) Curing Consor7um Fa7gue, Sci. Transl. Med. 5, 200fs35.
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- 14. “In a pluralis7c society there is nothing like the undisputable public good” [RITTEL, p156]
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- 16. Gelng the fit right Weak Par5al Strong Abstract coupling constant Drug Discov. Today. 2015 Jan 27. pii: S1359-‐6446(15)00033-‐1. doi: 10.1016/j.drudis.2015.01.011
- 17. Stuff to think about • The act of scien7fic innova7on is technically complex, and … • embedded in a sociological system that is itself a wicked problem • Sustainable progress will require thinking how work can be structured around these observa7ons • There are strategies to cope with wickedness that depend on how power is distributed throughout a system … which also impacts the openness of the system Roberts, N. (2000) Wicked problems and network approaches to resolu7on, Interna7onal Public Management Review, 1 (1-‐19)