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UCSF Open Proposals is a highly customizable platform for online discussion groups. It was originally designed to implement open, crowdsourcing-based approach to requesting and developing proposals in academic institutions. Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) at UC San Francisco designed a process called Open Proposals that introduced an open and collaborative “social” phase in the otherwise traditional academic RFP process, where the proposals ideas are shared online with the wide professional community for feedback and improvement, and for potential collaboration, before submitting the proposals for final review. After the review is complete, the results are posted back on the forum, shared openly with the community.
Main advantage of using open proposals approach is in solving several inefficiencies associated with the standard black-box proposal submission process.
UCSF Open Proposals (OP) is an online platform for open innovation, designed for an academic environment and developed by the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) at UCSF. The platform was born out of an ongoing need to stimulate and garner innovative ideas from the biomedical research community at UCSF in order to maintain and grow the university’s research infrastructure. From the outset, CTSI recognized that traditional ways of harvesting ideas at a large, distributed organization like UCSF had limitations. The standard “black-box” proposal submission process with subsequent review by small groups of stakeholders yielded less than ideal results, including. lost opportunities to form teams or connect collaborators, project redundancy, low efficiency and poor communication between project stakeholders. The OP platform changes this approach. It allows researchers, administrators, students and other academic community members to share and discuss proposals and projects through an open, online forum before submitting them for final review. Comments and suggestions are invited from a broad, multidisciplinary audience, which facilitates:
- improvement of proposals
- elimination of redundant proposals
- formation of teams around similar proposals
- expression of community support
- Academic crowdsourcing “platform” for building and improving ideas, sharing knowledge, strategic planning and online collaboration
- Initiative owners/managers
- UCSF community members
- With OP you can setup a standalone online open forum for any innovation/research opportunity or project
- You can brand it for your initiative/project
- You can customize information structure, collaboration process (timeline phases and allowed forum interactions in each phase) and access requirements
- Data is yours which allows for in-depth analytics
- Forum Content stays online becoming an ever growing knowledge base
- Intramural Funding
- Strategic Planning / Process Improvements
- Innovation Contests
- Team Science (network forums to collaborate on grant proposals or trial design)
- Community engaged research and care (connect with research participants, patients and others to get input on research directions, experience improvements etc.)