Accelerated innovation in crises: The role of collaboration in the development of alternative ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This article discusses the need for accelerated innovation in crisis situations and argues that collaboration plays an important role in enabling such acceleration. The central research question is: We draw on a phenomenon-driven, in-depth qualitative case study of seven initiatives that have developed alternative ventilators in the Netherlands during the COVID-19 crisis. Our results highlight how the COVID-19 pandemic has created a relatively short for accelerated innovation processes that is driven by the to develop solutions to the challenge at hand.

Erratum: Data-Driven Materials Science: Status, Challenges, and Perspectives.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1002/advs.201900808.

Data-Driven Materials Science: Status, Challenges, and Perspectives.

Data-driven science is heralded as a new paradigm in materials science. In this field, data is the new resource, and knowledge is extracted from materials datasets that are too big or complex for traditional human reasoning-typically with the intent to discover new or improved materials or materials phenomena. Multiple factors, including the open science movement, national funding, and progress in information technology, have fueled its development.