EARTO Views on Science 2.0 22 October 2014 - Leuven

Caj Södergård

Research Professor VTT Technical Research

Centre of Finland

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EARTO Vision: Technology for a Better World

EARTO Moto: Impact Delivered!

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EARTO Perspective on Science 2.0

Commercialization of Research

Open Innovation 2.0 • Networking and collaboration - partners,

competitors, RTOs, universities, users

• Corporate Entrepreneurship, enhancing corporate

venturing, start-ups, spin-offs

• Proactive IPR Management: to create markets for

technology

• Research and Development (R&D): to achieve

competitive advantages in the market

Industry 4.0 – Industrial Internet • Smart Factory is the goal

• Adaptive, resource efficient, ergonomic

• Integration of customers and partners in business

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EU Public Consultation Questionnaire

• Drivers

• Implications for society,

the economy and the

research system

• Implications for

researchers

• Opportunities and

barriers

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Drivers

• Digital technologies faster solving of problems in all

domains, including H2020 Societal Challenges

– Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, Big Data, 5G/mobility,

High Performance Computing

• A more data-centric society

– Extensive use of data sets and data analytics in research and

innovation

– Data sharing fuels collaboration producing more results

• More efficient dissemination of outputs, e.g. in social

media

– Currently, about half of publications are NOT cited at all and a

only minority can be validated

– Only a small fraction of research results are turned into business

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Implications for Society, the Economy and

the Research System

• Stimulates economic growth like other data-intensive services

• Can benefit both scientific community, companies and the

general public – e.g., by democratizing science and open innovation

• Can enable quicker results with less risk of duplications

• Huge amounts of data tools needed for extracting insights

• Crowdfunding does not replace current funding, but makes

researchers more aware of real problems and engages funders

• Challenges:

• Science 2.0 does not ensure higher quality research!

• Policies for privacy and open access to data are needed

• Research results must be protected (time labels, patents,…)

• Protect data for confidential experiments (e.g. medical)

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Implications for Researchers

• Engaging with a wider public e.g., involving scientists –

even amateurs - from all the world into big experiments

• Real-time collaboration with colleagues

• Co-creation of knowledge

• Community review to complement peer review

• Sharing data & results and collaborative research should

have a positive impact on the careers

– To be considered in HR policy (recruitments, promotions etc.)

– Metrics of collaboration needed

• Open access, open source should preserve authorship

and rights of researchers

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Opportunities and Barriers

Opportunities

• New ICT tools revolutionize the world-wide collaboration in exploring,

analyzing and testing

• The sense of belonging to a community increases engagement

• Offers a view on the whole knowledge creation process, not only

snapshots (=publications)

• Open access to scientific knowledge and data behind the knowledge

possibilities for reproduction and validation of research results

Barriers

• Generating results that are high quality & meet ethical standards

• Privacy and thrust in the exchange of research results needed

• Not getting credits for collaboration

• Availability of open datasets. A topic for the EU program ”Big Data

Value Initiative”.

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Actions to Be Done • Direct significant EU resources to Science 2.0 to enable European

Software and Service Industry to provide innovative tools (platforms,..)

• Include Innovation 2.0 on the agenda – networking, entrepreneurship

• Promote open access to data and content to accelerate the result

accumulation, preserving always author´s integrity and authorship

• Stimulate a wider dissemination of research results e.g. through social

media

• Support the engagement of scientists with a wider public - the sense of

belonging to communities increases motivation, improves quality, impact

• Expand current peer review practices to include also community review

and recognition for other impact than publications and citations

• Research organizations and companies should consider Science 2.0,

when they promote career paths, make recruitments and train staff

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Contributions

EARTO Working Group H2020 lead by EARTO Secretary General, Muriel

Attane & EARTO Policy Officer, Talita Soares

NESSI (Networked European Software and Service Initiative) working

group on Science 2.0

• Prof. Caj Södergård, VTT

• Prof. Ernestina Menasalvas, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM)

• Director Roberto Martinez, UPM

• Director Björn Skjellaug, SINTEF, Oslo

• Prof. Paulo Bellavista, University of Bologna

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