%0 book part %@ 1865-1356 %A Feltus, C.,Klein, P.,Konchakova, N.,Nicolas, D.,Kavka, C.,Horsch, M.T.,Preisig, H.A.,Khadraoui, D.,Belouettar, S. %D 2024 %J Information Technology for Management: Solving Social and Business Problems Through IT, Series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing %N %P 23-45 %R doi:10.1007/978-3-031-61657-0_2 %T MBCO: The Materials-based Business Case Ontology from BPMN-EMMO Integration %U https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61657-0_2 %X Open innovation in materials research involves the collaborative sharing of knowledge, ideas, and resources across organisations. Unfortunately, a lack of mutual understanding between scientific and industrial partners and their respective domain-specific digital tools hampers collaboration across the two domains. For this purpose, this work integrates the Business Process Modelling and Notation standard BPMN and the Elementary Multi-perspective Material Ontology (EMMO), yielding a knowledge representation and data documentation standard for research problems, workflows, and results related to the development of new materials and technologies and the underlying challenges in materials science. As a methodology, this work proposes and implements an innovative four-step approach for ontology integration, comprising alignment, mapping, integration, and validation. The result of this integration is pioneering an original Materials-based Business Case Ontology (MBCO), by which BPMN can be deployed an EMMO-compliant way.