Open Science Project Management. A Sociotechnical Approach

Open science is a category that has been gradually assimilated by academia to encompass research experiences characterized by the distributed location of cognitive resources and infrastructures, collaborative work practices and interaction patterns based on open licences. In this article we propose to explore the management of open science projects from a sociotechnical approach. To this end, in the first instance, the characteristics of this approach are explained as an expression of an integral understanding of knowledge, science and technology; subsequently, the adequacy of some notions of project management to the perspective of development of knowledge assets in open science is exposed, and later an analysis of an experience of open science project management carried out in a Research and Development center is offered. As a result, a set of approaches is presented to support the relevance of the sociotechnical approach as part of a theoretical-methodological platform for project management linked to open science.