July 21-22, 2025

Open and User Innovation Conference 2025


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OUI 2025

After the incredible success of OUI 2024 at Harvard Business School, the OUI community is invited to meet again for this year's OUI conference, which will take place in Lisbon at Nova School of Business and Economics on July 21st- 22nd 2025.

The conference tracks include:

  • Consumer & User Innovation

  • Crowdsourcing & Expert Evaluation

  • Digital Platforms and Ecosystems

  • Entrepreneurship & Financing Innovation

  • GenAI

  • Policy, Ethics, and Governance in Open & User Innovation

  • Problem Solving & Creativity in Innovation

  • Open Social Innovation

  • Sustainability

We encourage you to submit your research to OUI25! In addition to our vibrant OUI community, we’re excited to welcome colleagues from adjacent fields who don’t usually attend our conference, broadening our discussions and collaborations.

Looking forward to seeing you at this year’s conference at the beautiful campus of Nova SBE!

Important Dates

February 3, 2025: Registration and submission opening

April 15, 2025: Abstract submission closes

May 15, 2025: Authors are notified of acceptance

June 15, 2025: Deadline for at least one author being registered for presentation to be in included in the program

July 21-22, 2025: OUI Conference at Nova SBE

Keynote Speakers

The best speakers in the field will be gathered during the event.

  • David Li

    David Li

    Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab

    David Li has been contributing to open source software since 1990. He is a member of Free Software Foundation, committer to Apache projects and board director of ObjectWeb. Over the past 20 years, David has started several open source software projects and contributed to many others. In 2010, he co-founded XinCheJian, the first hackerspace in China to promote hacker/maker culture and open source hardware. In 2011, he co-founded Hacked Matter, a think tank on makers and open innovation. He In the past two years, he has become interested in urban farming and is an enthusiastic proponent of aquaponics, which brings the spirit of open source to farming and gardening. In 2015, he co-founded Maker Collider, a platform to develop next-generation IoT from Maker community. He is also the director of Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab.

  • Anne-Laure Fayard

    Anne-Laure Fayard

    Nova School of Business and Economics

    Anne-Laure Fayard is Full Professor at Nova SBE and the ERA Chair in Social Innovation. She is also Visiting Senior Fellow in the Department of Management at London School of Economics. Anne-Laure is an ethnographer of work, whose interests involve collaboration, innovation, design technology. Her work has been published in several leading journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Information System Research and Harvard Business Review. She is also the author with Anca Metiu of The Power of Writing in Organizations and has co-edited with Raza Mir The Routledge Companion to Anthropology and Business.

    Her research as well as social innovation projects has been frequently highlighted in major newspapers such as New York Times, Financial Times, The Economist, The Guardian and Le Monde.

    Prior to joining NOVA, Anne-Laure was a faculty member at New York University where she was the Founding Faculty advisor for the Design Lab @ NYU MakerSpace and Design for America of NYU. She had been faculty at INSEAD in Singapore and France. She has held visiting positions at the Center of Sociology of Innovation at Ecole des Mines in Paris and at Design London and the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the Imperial College Business School in London.

  • Eric Von Hippel

    Eric Von Hippel

    MIT Sloan School of Management

    Eric Von Hippel is a Professor of Technological Innovation in the MIT Sloan School of Management where he specializes in research related to the nature and economics of distributed and free innovation. He is best known for his work in developing the concept of open and user innovation and as the founder of the Open and User Innovation Society (OUI), which he led for over 20 years.

    Eric Von Hippel and Shannon Heald will talk about "Enhancing User innovation by “cognitive offloading" to AI".

  • Shannon Heald

    Shannon Heald

    University of Chicago

    Shannon Heald is Assistant Instructional Professor at the Department of Psychology and the College of the University of Chicago, where she is also an affiliated researcher at the APEX Lab (Attention, Perception & EXperience Lab). Her work focus on how our past experiences shape and guide (1) how we perceive the world, (2) how we communicate with others and (3) how we think and behave.

    Shannon Heald and Eric Von Hippel will talk about "Enhancing User innovation by “cognitive offloading" to AI".

Frequently Asked Questions

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Location

Nova School of Business and Economics

1 Rua da Holanda Carcavelos, Lisboa Portugal, 2775-405

Registration period

February 3, 2025 - 00:00 until July 14, 2025 - 23:59

Submission period

February 3, 2025 - 00:00 until April 15, 2025 - 23:59

Contact us

If you have any questions, please contact open.user.innovation.kc@novasbe.pt .

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