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Breaking the Wall to Crowdsourcing Research Questions

Patrick Lehner

Science and Innovation Management

In a novel approach to empower citizens to contribute to scientific research and close the linkages between science and society, we crowdsourced research questions from patients as well as their relatives and caretakers in the fields of mental health and traumatology. In both projects, crowd members provided more than 1000 research questions and some of them are currently already being investigated by transdisciplinary research groups. Questions are available Open Access via Open Knowledge Maps.

Tags: Citizen Science, Trust in Science, Mental Health

Patrick Lehner

Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, Open Innovation in Science Center

Patrick Lehner is expert on research and innovation strategies, research funding mechanisms and research and impact assessment. Patrick serves as co-director at the Open Innovation in Science Centers of the Ludwig Boltzmann Society. Before, he was Director of Administration at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and headed the Research Service Center at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. In his early days as a researcher he worked on national and regional innovation systems as well as on knowledge transfer between academia and economy.