NEXT Event
The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication
From 10-14 November 2025
Koenraad Debackere
KU Leuven
Koenraad Debackere 
is a professor of economics and management of technology and innovation at KU Leuven. He has been managing director of KU Leuven, and currently is the chair of KU Leuven Associatie, executive director of KU Leuven R&D, and a member of the Board of Governors of RWTH Aachen.
He was and is member or chair of various international scientific advisory boards in the areas of innovation and technology development & policy (LERU Enterprise & Innovation, and ENGIE), intellectual property management & policy (4iP Council), and product innovation management (EIASM-IPDMC).
He has held directorships in several investment and technology companies, and currently is chair of KBC Group and a board member of Umicore.
He studied engineering, economics and business at the University of Ghent and MIT and held visiting professorships at several international universities.
All Sessions by Koenraad Debackere
Commercialization and Open Science
November 13, 2025
10:10
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10:40
Open Science, Next Generation Metrics, and the World of Publishing
The starting point is the LERU Next Generation Metrics report aiming to maximising its utility for universities by compiling an extensive list of valuable resources on next-generation metrics. It places strong emphasis on the imperative of collaboration, both among universities and between universities and funding agencies. By leveraging international expertise in bibliometrics and informatics, universities will enhance their resilience, reduce dependence on a limited number of companies that provide (seemingly) pre-packaged research intelligence, and gain a greater capacity to shape their metric policies in alignment with their own missions, rather than relying solely on standard metrics and data availability.