Department of Strategy and Innovation

Susanne Beck is a senior postdoc researcher at the Open Innovation in Science Center in Vienna and a guest researcher at the Department of Strategy and Innovation at Copenhagen Business School. Her research focuses on the organization of scientific knowledge production and science-based innovation.

Susanne’s current projects investigate, for example, the effect of organizational design configurations on the legitimacy and behavioral adoption of novel open and collaborative research practices, antecedents, consequences, and contingencies of inter- and transdisciplinary scientific collaborations, or potentials and challenges of the co-production of knowledge. To address her research questions she uses both quantitative (field and lab experiments, choice experiments, surveys, databases) and qualitative methods (case studies, interviews, observations). Her publications and working papers have received several awards from Academy of Management, European Academy of Management, and R&D Management conference. Moreover, Susanne was a visiting researcher at Lancaster University Management School at the Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Innovation (2016). She also is lead guest editor of a special issue on Open Innovation in Science in Industry & Innovation, co-organizer of the annual Open Innovation in Science Research Conference, and lead coordinator of several collaborative writing efforts involving groups of up to 47 co-authors.