Big Science, Innovation and Societal Contributions offers a connection between Big Science and its societal impacts from a multidisciplinary perspective, drawing on physics and astrophysics scholars to explain the reasoning behind their work, and how such knowledge can be applied to everyday life.

Shantha Liyanage, Markus Nordberg and Marilena Streit-Bianchi: Introduction: Big Science for Social Construction Big Science Opportunities and Challenges 1: Markus Nordberg, Shantha Liyanage and Marilena Streit-Bianchi: Big Science and Society as Seen through Research Lenses 2: Peter Jenni, Tejinder Singh Virdee, Ludovico Pontecorvo, and Shantha Liyanage: Chasing the Success - ATLAS and CMS Collaborations 3: Lyn Evans, Frédérick Bordry, and Shantha Liyanage: A Machine with the Endless Frontiers - Large Hadron Collider (LHC) 4: Amalia Ballarino, Tim Boyle and Shantha Liyanage: Innovating Accelerator Technologies for Society 5: Michael Benedikt, John Ellis, Panagiotis Charitos, and Shantha Liyanage: Leap Frogging into the Future Innovation that Works 6: Christine Thong, Agustí Canals, Anita Kocsis, and Shantha Liyanage: Knowledge Diffusion by Design: Transforming Big Science Applications 7: Grace McCarthy, David Manset, Marilena Streit-Bianchi, Viktorija Skvarciany, and Shantha Liyanage: Big Science Leadership and Collaboration 8: David Reitze, Mark Casali, Alan R Duffy, James Gilbert, Elisabetta Barberio, and Shantha Liyanage: The Evolution of Astrophysics Towards Big Science: Insights from the Innovation Landscape 9: Mitra Safavi-Naeini, Tim Boyle, Suzie Sheehy and Shantha Liyanage: Big Science Medical Applications from Accelerator Physics- Impact on Society Organisational and Societal Implications 10: Beatrice Bressan, Anita Kocsis, Pablo Garcia Tello and Shantha Liyanage: Big Science as a Complex Human Enterprise 11: Ruediger Wink, Alberto Di Meglio, Marilena Streit-Bianchi and Shantha Liyanage: Big Science and Social Responsibility of the Digital World 12: Faiz Shah, Beatrice Bressan, Pablo Garcia Tello, Marilena Streit-Bianchi and Shantha Liyanage: Well-ordered Big Science, Innovation, and Social Entrepreneurship 13: Geoffrey Taylor and Shantha Liyanage: Future of Big Science Projects in Particle Physics- Asian Perspectives 14: Steven Goldfarb, Christine Kourkoumelis, Viktorija Skvarciany, Christine Thong, and Shantha Liyanage: Social and Educational Responsibility of Big Science 15: Shantha Liyanage, Markus Nordberg and Marilena Streit-Bianchi: Contributions of Big Science and Innovation to Society

Shantha Liyanage obtained a biological science degree, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and a PhD innovation management at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He held professorial appointments at University of Queensland, University of Auckland, University of Macquarie, and University of Technology Sydney. He directed the Technology Management Centre at the University of Queensland, Australia and held visiting professorial appointments with the Nihon University in Japan, Copenhagen Business School, and Zeppelin University Germany. His research covers education, management, and leadership including management research into CERN's ATLAS and CMS experiments. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Learning and Change, Inderscience, UK. Markus Nordberg coordinates multi-disciplinary innovation projects at IdeaSquare at CERN, and is the co-coordinator of the EU-funded sensor and imaging R&D&I initiative ATTRACT, aiming at both scientific and societal impact of disruptive co-innovation. Prior to this function, he served 12 years as the Resources Coordinator of the ATLAS project at CERN. He is a member of the European Physical Society, Strategic Management Society, and the Association of Finnish Parliament Members and Scientists, TUTKAS. He has a degree both in Physics and in Business Administration. Marilena Streit-Bianchi received a doctorate in Biological Sciences from the University of Rome and joined CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva in 1969. She has been a pioneer in the study of high-energy particles produced by accelerators for cancer treatment. She has held managerial positions on safety training and technology transfer, has been a senior honorary staff member at CERN, and actively engaged in multidisciplinarity. She is editor and curator of exhibitions in Europe and Mozambique promoting art and science, and is the Vice President of the international association ARSCIENCIA and member of the Italian Physics Society (SIF).

Contains interviews with Big Science experimental staff, providing information on the effective management of big collaborations Gives insight into the experience of leading researchers of big experiments, revealing new approaches and epistemic cultures Connects several academic fields, as well as performance management, international collaborations, building scientific infrastructure, research funding, and research-development-innovation management This is an open access title available under the terms of a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International] licence