New Mission Page creates access for research on open innovation at schools
2025-12-02 The findings from Marcus Pietsch's award-winning paper on open innovation in schools are now available in a clear and concise format from Emerald Publishing, providing low-threshold access to key research findings.
We are pleased to announce that Marcus Pietsch's paper “Open Innovation Networks: A Driver for Knowledge Mobilization in Schools?” has been prominently featured on Emerald Publishing's new Mission Page on the topic “Education under threat: Is innovation the key to resilience?” The paper has already been honored with the Outstanding Paper Award – now the most important findings have also been visually presented and are particularly easy to access via the Mission Page.
The research focuses on the question of how schools can strengthen their innovation processes in teaching and school management through open innovation, i.e., the conscious, cross-organizational exchange of knowledge. The study, which includes data from 411 German school administrators, identifies four different types of networks:
- Low cooperation – predominantly internal knowledge use
- System-oriented
- Science-oriented
- Market-oriented – diverse external knowledge sources
The results show that schools that actively use external cooperation are particularly good at exploiting their innovation potential.
The Info Graphic
The new infographic on the Mission Page provides a compact, low-threshold insight into these findings and makes the research immediately accessible to a wider audience:
www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/education-under-threat-innovation-key-resilience
You can find further information on the paper on the mission page.