©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member Opening Remarks Keith G Jeffery President, euroCRIS

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member Structure euroCRIS Strategic Seminar CRISs: the enabling technology The Seminar Series –2003 –2004 –2005 –2006 The Shared Vision

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member 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

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member 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/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member 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

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member Purpose The 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

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member Purpose The 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

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member Structure euroCRIS Strategic Seminar CRISs: the enabling technology The Seminar Series –2003 –2004 –2005 –2006 The Shared Vision

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member CRISs: Enhancing and Enabling Innovative Ideas

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member CRISs: Enhancing and Enabling Finance Human Resources Project Management Innovative Ideas

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member CRISs: Enhancing and Enabling Finance Human Resources Project Management Publications Patents Products Innovative Ideas

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member CRISs: Enhancing and Enabling CRIS Finance Human Resources Project Management Publications Patents Products Innovative Ideas

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member CRISs: Enhancing and Enabling CRIS Finance Human Resources Project Management Publications Patents Products

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member CRISs: Enhancing and Enabling CRIS Finance Human Resources Project Management Publications Patents Products Human Capital Development Innovative Ideas

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member CRISs: Enhancing and Enabling CRIS Finance Human Resources Project Management Publications Patents Products Knowledge Creation Human Capital Development Innovative Ideas

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member CRISs: Enhancing and Enabling CRIS Finance Human Resources Project Management Publications Patents Products Wealth Creation Knowledge Creation Human Capital Development Innovative Ideas

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member 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

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member PROJECTORGUNIT SkillsCV General Facility Particular Equipment Contact Results Publication Results Patent Results Product Service Funding Programme Event Classification Prize/Award PERSON

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member Structure euroCRIS Strategic Seminar CRISs: the enabling technology The Seminar Series –2003 –2004 –2005 –2006 The Shared Vision

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member 2003 Need for European wealth-creation Need for R&D information across Europe to be available CRIS CERIF

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member 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 2003  CRIS: also a main thread of this seminar  A commercial CRIS supporting CERIF now available and in use: uniCRIS

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member Structure euroCRIS Strategic Seminar CRISs: the enabling technology The Seminar Series –2003 –2004 –2005 The Shared Vision

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member 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

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member 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

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member 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

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member Structure euroCRIS Strategic Seminar CRISs: the enabling technology The Seminar Series –2003 –2004 –2005 The Shared Vision

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member 2005 CRISs at the heart of R&D systems enhancing other information through integration, context and knowledge to enable decision- making

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member 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

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member The Research Information System and the Research Process in a GRIDs Environment CRIS Finance Human Resources Project Management Publications Patents Products Research Process GRID

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member 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

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member 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

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member Structure euroCRIS Strategic Seminar CRISs: the enabling technology The Seminar Series –2003 –2004 –2005 –2006 The Shared Vision

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member 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

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member 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

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member 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

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member 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

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member Structure euroCRIS Strategic Seminar CRISs: the enabling technology The Seminar Series –2003 –2004 –2005 –2006 The Shared Vision

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member Structure The Organisations –ESF –EARMA –ALLEA –CODATA –ERCIM –GREYNET –JISC And, of course, the EC euroCRIS has collected together some of the key organisations

©euroCRIS/Keith G JefferyCRIS Seminar Brussels Premium member 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