Community science labs are important sites attempting to democratize science and biotechnology. With similarities to hackerspaces and makerspaces, these labs provide resources to conduct experiments and develop goods. As such, they are touted as potential sites for innovation for more just and equitable outcomes. This article aims to demonstrate how concepts from the transitions literature can be used to understand the democratization of innovation in and from these types of spaces. Combining concepts from the socio-technical transitions and economization/marketization literatures, the article develops a novel conceptual framework for analyzing the democratization of innovation that encompasses the dynamic interactions between both the innovation activities that occur within community science labs and their broader socioeconomic contexts. The framework is applied to a case study (the Open Insulin Project) in a community science lab in the San Francisco Bay Area (Counter Culture Labs).

社区科学实验室是试图实现科学和生物技术民主化的重要场所。与黑客空间和创客空间相似，这些实验室提供进行实验和开发产品的资源。因此，它们被吹捧为潜在的创新场所，以实现更公正和公平的结果。本文旨在展示如何使用转型文献中的概念来理解这些类型空间中和来自这些类型空间的创新民主化。结合社会技术转型和经济化/市场化文献中的概念，本文开发了一个新颖的概念框架，用于分析创新民主化，其中涵盖社区科学实验室内发生的创新活动与其更广泛的社会经济背景之间的动态相互作用。该框架应用于旧金山湾区社区科学实验室（反文化实验室）的案例研究（开放胰岛素项目）。