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Opening Remarks
Keith G Jeffery
President, euroCRIS
www.eurocris.org
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Structure
• euroCRIS Strategic Seminar• CRISs: the enabling technology• The Seminar Series
– 2003– 2004– 2005– 2006
• The Shared Vision
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CRIS
• Current Research Information System– Current: information currently useful– Research information: projects, persons,
organisational units, funding, products, patents, publications, services, facilities, equipment…
– System: used by research policy makers, managers, administrators; by researchers themselves; by intermediaries, innovators and technology/knowledge transfer agencies, by the media and by the public
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Why euroCRIS Seminar?
• Mission to provide such a forum– Objective to improve European performance – Develop a vision for European R&D
management• Raise an issue
– Bring together experts– Formulate solution(s) and way forward– Provide report
• euroCRIS – Not-for-profit: no income except member
subscriptions– Independent and unbiased
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euroCRIS Results
• Technical– euroCRIS developed (and develops) CERIF– euroCRIS shares CRIS design and
implementation expertise (including with uniCRIS AG)
• Awareness– Conferences (every second year)– Seminars (every year)– Members meetings (twice per year)
• Networking– Example: 2004 seminar; Jan Velterop met
Derk Haank joined Springer to push open choice
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PurposeThe Assertion
• Research and Development Information– For the political decision-maker– For the funding organisations– For the entrepreneurs– For the innovators themselves– For the media– For the general public
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PurposeThe Assertion
• Research and Development Information– For the political decision-maker– For the funding organisations– For the entrepreneurs– For the innovators themselves– For the media– For the general public
• Is the key to– Improved European performance
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Structure
• euroCRIS Strategic Seminar• CRISs: the enabling technology• The Seminar Series
– 2003– 2004– 2005– 2006
• The Shared Vision
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CRISs: Enhancing and
Enabling
InnovativeIdeas
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CRISs: Enhancing and
Enabling
Finance
Human Resources
Project Management
InnovativeIdeas
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CRISs: Enhancing and
Enabling
Finance
Human Resources
Project Management
Publications
Patents
Products
InnovativeIdeas
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CRISs: Enhancing and
Enabling
CRIS
Finance
Human Resources
Project Management
Publications
Patents
Products
InnovativeIdeas
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CRISs: Enhancing and
Enabling
CRIS
FinanceHuman
Resources
Project Management
Publications
Patents
Products
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CRISs: Enhancing and
Enabling
CRIS
Finance
Human Resources
Project Management
Publications
Patents
Products
HumanCapital
Development
InnovativeIdeas
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CRISs: Enhancing and
Enabling
CRIS
Finance
Human Resources
Project Management
Publications
Patents
Products
KnowledgeCreation
HumanCapital
Development
InnovativeIdeas
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CRISs: Enhancing and
Enabling
CRIS
Finance
Human Resources
Project Management
Publications
Patents
Products
WealthCreation
KnowledgeCreation
HumanCapital
Development
InnovativeIdeas
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And the key is: CERIF
• Common European Research Information Format– For information exchange– For information access
• EU Recommendation to member states
• EC handed management of CERIF to euroCRIS
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PROJECT
ORGUNIT
Skills
CV
GeneralFacility
ParticularEquipment
ContactResults
PublicationResultsPatentResultsProduct
Service
FundingProgramme
Event
ClassificationPrize/Award
PERSON
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Structure
• euroCRIS Strategic Seminar• CRISs: the enabling technology• The Seminar Series
– 2003– 2004– 2005– 2006
• The Shared Vision
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2003
• Need for European wealth-creation
• Need for R&D information across Europe to be available
• CRIS • CERIF
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CRIS
• Requirement is to ensure information about R&D is available to the stakeholder groups
• CRIS (Current Research Information System)
• CERIF (Common European Research Information Format)– Standard format– Allows interoperation
• A key topic at euroCRIS seminar 2003CRIS: also a main thread of this
seminarA commercial CRIS supporting CERIF
now available and in use: uniCRIS
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Structure
• euroCRIS Strategic Seminar• CRISs: the enabling technology• The Seminar Series
– 2003– 2004– 2005
• The Shared Vision
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2004
• CRISs to manage the context of the R&D
• OA Repositories to make the knowledge (publications and datasets) available
• GRIDs: the platform for integration
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OA
• A principal product of R&D is publications• (others are products and patents)• White literature (published, peer-reviewed)• Grey literature (often internal, know-how)• Increasingly publications (white and grey) are
open access– Recent declarations: Budapest, Bethesda, Berlin..– UK Parliamentary Science and Technology
Committee OA: 2004 : considered as part of a CRIS
environment implementations of OA repositories
linked with CRISs now exist
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GRID
• Deutsche Bank 2000: ‘forget the web make way for the GRID’
• ERCIM News Issue 45, 59• National and EC Projects• EC DG INFSO F2 Expert Group NGG
1,2,3• Links with GGF GRID: discussed 2004 and 2005 GRID projects throughout Europe
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Structure
• euroCRIS Strategic Seminar• CRISs: the enabling technology• The Seminar Series
– 2003– 2004– 2005
• The Shared Vision
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2005
CRISs at the heart of R&D systems enhancing other
information through
integration, context and
knowledge to enable decision-
making
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2005: The Issue
• Problem: – The effort threshold for users to
• Input / Update the information • Retrieve relevant information• Analyse relevant information• Make decisions based on relevant information
• Solution– Process-based workflow
• Update data once at earliest opportunity– With constraints for accuracy
• Retrieve and analyse as / when necessary– Guided by context
• Improved decision making– Timely, based on better information
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The Research Information System and the Research
Process in a GRIDs Environment
CRIS
Finance
Human Resources
Project Management
Publications
Patents
Products
Res
earc
hPr
oces
sGRID
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The Research Information System and the Research
Process in a GRIDs Environment
The GRID
The Research Process
CRISs(the management tool)
CERIF
OA Repositories(the knowledge)
OAI-PMH
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The Research Information System and the Research
Process in a GRIDs Environment
• CRIS: management of R&D activity through information – better decisions– better technology transfer / innovation / exploitation
• Open Access: open access to R&D knowledge – easy knowledge availability– Improved R&D quality
• GRID: A universal computation, information and knowledge surface– The basis for the future of Europe
• All unified by the Research Process
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Structure
• euroCRIS Strategic Seminar• CRISs: the enabling technology• The Seminar Series
– 2003– 2004– 2005– 2006
• The Shared Vision
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CRIS Supporting Innovation
• Having discussed the wider CRIS context – repositories etc – in 2004
• And the research process and how the CRIS information can be collected effectively and efficiently – 2005
• We now return to one of the main themes of 2003: how to best use CRISs to support the ‘Lisbon agenda’– And specifically innovation
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Europe and Innovation
• By most measures Europe produces high quality high volume research output– Particularly by population, by GDP
• But fails compared with other continents to turn that excellent output into wealth creation and improvement of the quality of life– Of course some positive examples
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Analysis
• There has been some analysis comparing Europe with particularly North America but also Far East
• Major factor appears to be culture– To academics commercialisation of research
somehow distasteful;– To industry academics appear aloof and irrelevant
• Proposed solutions– Research and innovation campuses (industry co-
located with researchers)• Some successes eg Cambridge, Aachen, Leuven, ETH
– Information on both industry requirements and research outputs readily available
CRIS
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2006
How can they be used to bridge the European ‘innovation gap’ our inability (compared with the rest of the world) to turn excellent R&D into wealth-creation and improvement of the quality of life.
CRIS - The strategic tool
for supporting innovation
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Structure
• euroCRIS Strategic Seminar• CRISs: the enabling technology• The Seminar Series
– 2003– 2004– 2005– 2006
• The Shared Vision
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StructureThe Organisations
– ESF– EARMA– ALLEA– CODATA– ERCIM– GREYNET– JISC
And, of course, the EC
euroCRIS has collected together some of the key organisations
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Partner Synergy
• EARMA• ALLEA• ESF• ICSU/CODATA• ERCIM• GreyNet• JISC
• Research Information
• Research Context• Open Access• Portals and access• Research Process• Innovation
Each partner contributes with own expertise and approach