Accompanied by digital transformation, Open Science has become not only a normative but also an institutionalized endeavor within science and research. Consequently, various organizations have been established to provide infrastructures for Open Science. These include commercial enterprises, as well as non-commercial institutions, which have emerged in response to increasing commercialization of academia. However, these non-commercial providers collaborate with different commercial actors, such as publishers for data exchange or small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for service innovation and develop new use cases to transform data into assets.
The research project "Governing Open Science through collaborations" explores the establishment, maintenance, and sustainability of collaborations between organizations with different business models. Considering the specificities of the academic system and its commercialization, the project aims to draw conclusions on how different organizational objectives, namely, fostering Open Science and generating revenue, are aligned in the development of such collaborations.
