➡ Why should I care about openness? ➡ What are the options to publish my scientific content and keep it open to everyone? ➡ Are patents an effective way to transfer technologies to society? ➡ Is intellectual property being an enabler of scientific and technological advance? ➡ Are there concrete examples of the open science impact? This and other questions were the basis for debate More at: http://www.meetingpoint4.net/openbydefault/

1. Research openness and its impact in
and beyond academia
Pedro Parraguez Ruiz
29th November 2012
Open by Default, DTU
http://www.meetingpoint4.net/openbydefault/

2. Road map
Introduction
The different flavours
of openness
Examples
What can we
do?
Wrap up

3. Introduction
About Open by Default
Openness right here, right now
About me
http://about.me/pedro.parraguez
www.openinnovate.eu

4. Introduction – about you
Have you ever
published in an OA
journal? 24 vs 8
Do you maintain a
research blog or any
other non traditional
way of sharing your
28 vs 4
results?

5. Introduction – Openness enablers and criticality
Enablers: • Decreasing transactional
costs
• Increasing complexity /
interconnectedness
Criticality: • Urgent global challenges to
complex to afford closeness
• Huge needs but limited
resources

6. From Closed by Default

8. Don Tapscott’s four principles of an open
world applied to Science
Collaboration
Sharing
Transparency
Empowerment

9. But first we need to bash some of the old paradigms…

10. Key Barriers for Openness in Science
Intellectual Property as the key strategy to bring
Old School Academic Career and Incentives
research results/ technology to the market/society

11. The different flavours of openness
Science/Academia Both Technology/Industry/Society

12. *

13. Open Science Examples
http://usefulchem.wikispaces.com/
http://www.greenxchange.cc/

14. Open Science Examples
Open Peer review
http://www.scivee.tv/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3389610/figure/F1/

15. Open Innovation and Openness in Science

16. The traditional tech transfer pipeline
Generation Evaluation and Selection Technology Push Transaction
Evaluation of the Technology is
discovery/invention and “packed” to be offered
its potential applications in the market
If it has If there is
commercial an interested
value party
Application for a
If it doesn’t Negotiations to
patent or other Final transaction and
have commercial prospects licence, sell or create
IP rights exchange of IP
Research centre If there is no interest an spin-off
Research Funding infrastructure and Scientific Discovery in the offer
accumulated knowledge
Once IP is cleared
it is possible to publish Patent becomes part
Scientific Publication of the passive portfolio
of IP
TTO usually does not TTO offers support and expertise Usually TTO is fully
get involved in commercial evaluation and IP responsible for this process

17. Tech Transfer meets Open Innovation
Classic university technology transfer model Open innovation through innov. intermediaries
Technology Push Technology Pull
Technology is
“packed” to be Final transaction and
offered in the exchange of IP
Researchers market
If it has
commercial
value
If it doesn’t
If there is no interest
have commercial prospects
in the offer Open innovation networks
Company
Scientific Publications
with a need
Passive patents

18. Unfortunately this doesn’t flow well
Technology Push Technology Pull
Final transactions
Researchers and exchanges of
IP
Company
with a need
Researchers
Company
with a need
Researchers Open innovation networks
Company
with a need
Company
Researchers
Company with a need
with a need

19. From R to D and from D to R
offers
Successful product/services reach
needs the market as innovations
Development:
Increasingly in high tech
i
Market
needs
SMEs (ex spin offs).
Sometimes in big
corporations and
universities. D
Engineering
Research: usually in
Universities and
& design Research Centres.
R
Science + Eng
Motivated by scientific
curiosity and
disruptive discoveries.
needs
offers
The full R&D potential is highly distributed
and requires collaboration and co-creation to be exploit

20. Open innovation examples

21. Quick Intellectual Property Discussion
DTU owns roughly 200 patents
source: dtu.dk
“The 20-year lifetime costs of a patent
family consisting of US and Japanese patents
and a European patent extending to
Germany, France and the UK will amount
between 100.000 to 200.000 USD”
Source: http://www.dyoung.com/patentnewsletter-aug09
Total cost of DTU patent portfolio could easily
be 30 million USD
2011 total DTU income-expenses = 14 Million USD

22. Open Design and Openness in Science
Fjeldsted, A., & Adalsteinsdottir, G. (2012). Open Design Consulting. Technical
University of Denmark. Retrieved from http://www.opendesignconsulting.org/

23. Open Design and Openness in Science
http://opensourceecology.org/

24. Open Design and Openness in Science
http://www.thingiverse.com/

25. Examples of Tools and Resources
http://www.opensciencedirectory.net/ http://www.wikispaces.com/
http://www.gapminder.org/
http://www.mendeley.com/ http://www.wolframalpha.com/

26. Wrap up

27. Open to connect!
Pedro Parraguez Ruiz
ppru@dtu.dk
Blog: openinnovate.eu
www.about.me/pedro.parraguez
www.linkedin.com/in/pedroparraguez
https://twitter.com/parraguezr