- Kaunas, Lithuania
- 4-5 November 2026
Call for Papers : 13th Annual World Open Innovation Conference
Deadline Extended: 18th May 2025 (23:59 CET)
The submission deadline is 4 May 2026. For further details see below.
Explore the Future of Open Innovation
We are delighted to announce the call for papers for the 13th Annual World Open Innovation Conference (WOIC). Our aim is to bring together stakeholders from the academy, the practice, and from politics to discuss the latest findings, trends, and tools in open innovation.
Open Innovation Across Boundaries
This year’s conference is hosted by Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) in Lithuania, a context characterized by a strong digital technology sector and a vibrant ICT and startup ecosystem. Such an environment reflects how innovation increasingly unfolds through distributed processes involving firms, startups, universities, and other actors.
Against this backdrop, WOIC invites contributions that examine how open innovation is evolving in both research and practice. Contemporary debates are moving beyond a narrow focus on organizational boundaries, instead emphasizing the complexity of navigating multiple, overlapping technological, institutional, digital, and organizational boundaries within fragmented and interdependent ecosystems.
This shift raises critical questions about how organizations manage knowledge flows across such complex systems and how does openness translate into innovation outcomes and value capture.
Discover Kaunas
KTU Santaka Valley is a state-of-the-art science and innovations centre, one of the largest in the Baltics. It has become a local catalyst for innovations connecting science, technologies and business for joint activities.
The Valley is the hub accommodating the University’s most advanced scientific potential and cutting-edge equipment that enables timely and efficient research and development services for business, leading to creation of new products, which increase international competitiveness of the State.
Submission Guidelines
Participants must first submit an extended abstract. Depending on the stage of the research the extended abtract could be of (a) completed research or (b) early-stage research (ideas).
For completed research participants whose extended abstracts are accepted will be required to submit full papers upon registration.
For further details, see the call for academic papers below.
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About us
The World Open Innovation Conference (WOIC) brings theory and practice closer together. We seek the latest in academic research on open innovation, and combine this in our program with challenges faced by industry executives and policymakers who manage open innovation in their organizations.
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