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©euroCRIS/Keith G Jeffery CRIS Seminar 200609 Brussels 20060911 1

Opening Remarks

Keith G Jeffery

President, euroCRIS

[email protected]

www.eurocris.org


Structure

• euroCRIS Strategic Seminar• CRISs: the enabling technology• The Seminar Series

– 2003– 2004– 2005– 2006

• The Shared Vision


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


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


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


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


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


Structure


– 2003– 2004– 2005– 2006



CRISs: Enhancing and

Enabling

InnovativeIdeas

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Enabling

Finance

Human Resources

Project Management

InnovativeIdeas


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Enabling

Finance

Human Resources

Project Management

Publications

Patents

Products

InnovativeIdeas


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Enabling

CRIS

Finance

Human Resources

Project Management

Publications

Patents

Products

InnovativeIdeas


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Enabling

CRIS

FinanceHuman

Resources

Project Management

Publications

Patents

Products


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Enabling

CRIS

Finance

Human Resources

Project Management

Publications

Patents

Products

HumanCapital

Development

InnovativeIdeas


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Enabling

CRIS

Finance

Human Resources

Project Management

Publications

Patents

Products

KnowledgeCreation

HumanCapital

Development

InnovativeIdeas


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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


– 2003– 2004– 2005– 2006



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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


– 2003– 2004– 2005



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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


– 2003– 2004– 2005



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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

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sGRID


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The GRID

The Research Process

CRISs(the management tool)

CERIF

OA Repositories(the knowledge)

OAI-PMH


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• 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


– 2003– 2004– 2005– 2006



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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


– 2003– 2004– 2005– 2006



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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

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