Scaling Complex Thinking for Everyone: A Conceptual and Methodological Framework

Nowadays, complex thinking remains a critical topic for researchers and academicians in higher education. It is considered a core competency for designing and developing solutions proposals for current societal problems. However, there is still a need to create and implement innovative teaching-learning systems and initiatives that support training and development of desirable transversal and disciplinary competencies that promote complex thinking in students. In this context, Open Science has become a fundamental resource to accelerate research processes, enrich education, build new ways to analyze complex social realities, and provide affordable infrastructures with massive impact to close inequitable gaps in different regions. This paper introduces the "Reasoning for Complexity" Interdisciplinary Research Group (R4C-IRG) that connects and develops these themes, providing a conceptual and methodological framework with three fundamental approaches (i) Open Science, (ii) Open Innovation, and (iii) the Education 4.0 framework. It allows us to propose an Open Collaborative Network Model for knowledge generation and transfer initiatives, the development of collaborative and entrepreneurial projects, and technology transfer to scale levels of complex thinking for higher education students.