how to deal with companies that are project partners
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OpenAIRE Liaison Training Event, Geneva, June 21, 2011 - Alicia López Medina, Pedro PríncipeTRANSCRIPT
How to deal with companies that are project partnersLiaison Training Event, Geneva, June 21, 2011Alicia López Medina, Pedro Príncipe
Liaison Training EventUniversity of Geneva, June 21, 2011
Topics
1. The challenge– Open Access Pilot and companies
2. Scenarios– Companies as project partners
3. Publications– How to identify their publications?
4. Dissemination Strategies– Stakeholders and communication
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1. The challenge
Open Access Pilot and companies
The challenge:diferent needs, diferents answers
Two dimensions:
• “Open Access offer companies access to the latest research for exploitation (helping to speed up commercialization and innovation)”
• OpenAIRE can provide a useful service for companies to disclose the results of their research activities.
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SMEs publications, keys to success of the Open Access Pilot
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SMEs
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2. ScenariosCompanies as project partners…
Scenarios
What we have:– Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)– Big companies and multinationals – SMEs Associations– SpinOffs…
How they participate– Companies of your country as Project Coordinators
with University participation Only with companies participation
– Universities together with companies– Research institutions with industrial partners– Companies suported by research institutions– Projects with companies outside Europe (i.e. Latinamerica)…7
Practical cases
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Companies as Project Coordinators
Companies suported by RI
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Practical cases
SMEs Associations
Diferent types of companies and partners
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Practical cases
Universities together with companies
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3. Publications
How to identify their publications?
Publications
How to identify their publications?– On Project website– Retrieving from isi, scopus…– Tracking information about coordinators
and participants (researchers)
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List of publications in website
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Publications on website
Documents in their project website
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They may have a repository
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Or the like
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Or using other means to disseminate their articles
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4. Dissemination Strategies
Stakeholders and communication…
SME National Contact Points
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http://ec.europa.eu/research/sme-techweb/index_en.cfm?pg=ncp
Organization to support SMEs
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http://www.enterprise-europe-network.ec.europa.eu/index_en.htm
Local contact points
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At city level
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By Sector
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Environment
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How to identify the coordinator?
Look into the project website
EC list of SC39 projects
Cordis…
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Look into the project website
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Projects General Assemblies
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Checklist
Strategies to deal with themSome questions:
If they have a repository, will they work on make it OpenAIRE compliant?
– Or will it be easier to deposit in the orphan repository?
– They will need extra support.
Information at their General Assemblies?
Special copyright issues?
More visibility for SME in the OpenAIRE portal (it looks very RI oriented)?!30
Strategies to deal with themAction points:
Prefererably individual mailing and phone.
Visit on site to know more about the projects.
Contact directly authors with published articles
Disseminate information in SMEs specific organizations: i.e. Chamber of commerce
Use social web
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Thank you for your attention! Questions?Please share your experience.
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