As open as possible, as closed as necessary? Open science, commercialisation, and the Irish research and innovation landscape

Presenter

Kalpana Shankar, Professor of Information and Communication Studies, University College Dublin.

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Introduction

Research funders have invested significant resources in both open research and fostering public-private research partnerships (PPRP) with an eye to commercialising publicly funded research. However, there has been less discussion of how PPRP navigate open research mandates when intellectual property (IP) rights are at stake. This work in progress, drawing on interviews with research stakeholders (researchers, research support staff, and data stewards) and policy documents, builds on the literature of institutional logics to examine tensions in the Irish higher education research and innovation landscape regarding open science and commercialisation/intellectual property.

About the presenter

Kalpana Shankar is a Full Professor of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin. Her research and teaching focus on the research ecosystem itself, open data, and data archives and sharing, as well as other work on research evaluation and peer review. Her current focus is on studying tensions between open science and commercialisation in the digital health research and innovation ecosystem in Ireland.