The Power of Open in Science

"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 Ruiz Chevening 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

Taxpayer money in research

Huge waste of resources

Data, Information, Knowledge.... Wisdom?

Intelligence / Wisdom Knowledge

Information

Data

Human, not transferable/experiential

Contextual, Tacit It need to be transferred and learned

Codified, Explicit Easily transferable

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

tacit

Socialization

externalization

internalization

combination

From explicit

tacit

To

explicit

Closeness

The legal framework and the culture

• Obsolete intellectual property framework • Law was designing to protect by 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 even worse than this!

With the all mighty silos

But there is a hope...

New cultural norms

Open Data

Open Science

Knowledge Management

Open Innovation Science Commons Semantic Web

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

A new age of “co”

• Collaboration • Coordination • Congregation • Co-creation!

• The big tool: Internet

Open Innovation

open data? ďƒź Restrictions on data re-use can create an anti-commons and its related tragedy.

Why should we create open data? ďƒź Sponsors may not get full value of research unless the results are made freely available.

ďƒź The rate of discovery often accelerates with better access to data.

Why should we create open data? ďƒź 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 research do before? humanists archaeologists geographers musicologists ... researchers!

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 Ruiz Chevening 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 ...