Experience Stern | Faculty & Research

In “Dismantling Knowledge Boundaries at NASA: The Critical Role of Professional Identity in Open Innovation,” an in-depth, three-year study at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), NYU Stern Professor Hila Lifshitz-Assaf evaluated a number of experiments for which open-innovation methods produced groundbreaking discoveries, finding that their success simultaneously required a shift in thinking about the role of R&D professionals.