The IS research group actively participates in two central Open University research themes:

• Safety and the city
• Learning and Innovation in Resilient Systems

Other relations/affiliations with scientific institutes:

• Katholiek Universiteit Leuven, Afdeling Industrieel Beleid/Verkeer & Infrastructuur, Belgium
• Utrecht University, Department of Information and Computing Sciences
• Utrecht University of Applied science, Digital Smart Services
• Universiteit Utrecht, department for Social and Economic History, Institutions for Collective Action
• RWTH Aachen University, School of Business and Economics, Technology Entrepreneurship (TEN)
• Maastricht University, School of Business and Economics, dep. Organisation, Strategy and Entrepreneurship (OSE)
• Maastricht University, Department of Accounting and Information Management
• The University of Melbourne, Computing and Information Systems, Melbourne School of Engineering.
• National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
• Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science
• Radboud University, Social Cultural Research
• NIVEL, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research
• Department of Informatics of the Ionian University, Corfu, Greece
• Erasmus University, Erasmus School of Accounting and Assurance
• Georgia State University, department of Computer Information Systems
• Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, UGentMIS Research Group.
• Antwerp Management School, Research Group Digital Innovation
• University of Antwerp, Department of Management Information Systems
• Eindhoven University of Technology, department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences