How to Create an Innovation Accelerator

TL;DR

This paper proposes a multi-disciplinary 'Innovation Accelerator' infrastructure to improve knowledge creation, modernize academic publishing, and enhance scientific collaboration, aiming to address policy failures rooted in knowledge gaps.

Contribution

It introduces the concept of an 'Innovation Accelerator' as a novel ICT infrastructure to facilitate efficient knowledge creation and interdisciplinary scientific cooperation.

Findings

Suggestions for modernizing academic publication systems

Strategies for supporting large-scale multi-disciplinary projects

Conceptual framework for an 'Innovation Accelerator' infrastructure

Abstract

Too many policy failures are fundamentally failures of knowledge. This has become particularly apparent during the recent financial and economic crisis, which is questioning the validity of mainstream scholarly paradigms. We propose to pursue a multi-disciplinary approach and to establish new institutional settings which remove or reduce obstacles impeding efficient knowledge creation. We provided suggestions on (i) how to modernize and improve the academic publication system, and (ii) how to support scientific coordination, communication, and co-creation in large-scale multi-disciplinary projects. Both constitute important elements of what we envision to be a novel ICT infrastructure called "Innovation Accelerator" or "Knowledge Accelerator".