"Innovation Nation" Bridging the gap between universities, the industry and

the government

or... What can I do to bridge the gap, the power of “open”

Pedro Parraguez RuizChevening Forum 2010

www.advient.net/pedro

Initial thoughts...

• Web has already transformed the way we do

business and communicate but it has affected little research...

• We are use to find "relevant" information in the web quickly and at no cost...

• But we are still using paper technology analogues for valuable information... replicating digitally

Starting with the problems...

The data deluge

The Data Deluge Problem

• Lots of info but only some precious gems.

• Chaos and overload does not help innovation.

• Mistakes and errors multiply themselves and are difficult to correct.

The Data Deluge Problem (cont)

Overload Blindness

Duplicity of efforts

Huge waste of

resources

Taxpayer money in research

Data, Information, Knowledge.... Wisdom?

Data

Information

Knowledge

Intelligence / Wisdom

Codified, Explicit

Easily transferable

Human, not transferable/experiential

Contextual, TacitIt need to be transferred and learned

The knowledge conversion process

Socialization

internalization combination

externalization

From

To

explicit

tacit

explicittacit

Source: The knowledge creating company, I. Nonaka and H. Takeuchi

Closeness

The legal framework and the culture

• Obsolete intellectual property framework

• Law was designing to protectby isolating intellectual property

• Close “by default”

Culture and paradigm clashes

Academia VS Business VS Government + arts!

• Short term / Long Term

• Cultural ethos, mutual distrust

• Open VS Close / Publication VS Patent

= Difficult Multidisciplinarity

But it can get evenworse than this!

With the all mighty silos

But there is a hope...

Open Data

Science Commons

Open Science

Knowledge Management

Semantic Web

New cultural norms

Open Innovation

Papers are not the only way of disseminating knowledge...

• Collaboration

• Coordination

• Congregation

• Co-creation!

• The big tool: Internet

A new age of “co”

Open Innovation

open data?

Restrictions on data re-use can create an

anti-commons and its related tragedy.

Why should we create open data?

Sponsors may not get full

value of research unless

the results are made freely available.

The rate of discovery

often accelerates with

better access to data.

Why should we create open data?

Data access is often required for the operation

of communal human activities.

Some results of Open Data

Semantic information

How do we move from heroic scientists doing heroic science with heroic infrastructure to everyday scientists doing science they couldn’t do before? humanists

archaeologistsgeographersmusicologists...researchers!

research

It’s the democratisation of e-Science!

Final thoughts...

• Share!

• Change the reward structure, reward collaboration and contributions to public repository... not everything is peer to peer review

• Go beyond the papers!, they are too slow and incomplete, not allowing collaboration, example of open source software.

Final thoughts... (cont)

• Interoperability and openness of publicly funded scientific data

• When information gets share things move faster.

• Data get more powerful when it get connected.

• But be considerate with the data you put out there!

Only after giving this steps in our research, we can start thinking in a new era in knowledge/technology

transfer and innovation!

Pedro Parraguez RuizChevening Forum 2010

www.advient.net/pedro

References

• http://www.slideshare.net/sveinmagnus/open-data-javazone

• http://www.slideshare.net/dder/the-new-science-bangalore-edition

• http://cameronneylon.net

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/zimpenfish/228553888

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/gadl/395079578

• www.sciencecommons.org

• ...