Laura MacDonald et al., Management of intellectual property in publicly-funded research organisations: Towards European Guidelines, European Commission, January 2004. From the executive summary: "The report is directed primarily at research universities and research centres funded by publics funds (collectively Public Research Organisations or PROs) to help them identify the processes, good practices and the implications of a more active involvement in the innovation process through the management of IPR....The majority of basic research in Europe is conducted by PROs. They have always been an important source of innovation. The report reviews the knowledge transfer processes and their evolution over the
last 30 years. The processes evolved from an 'Open Science' model in which the PROs did not retain any intellectual property rights (IPR), to a 'Licensing Model' in which the PROs started to retain, protect and commercialise inventions based on their discoveries....However, over the last ten years, a third model, which we call the 'Innovation Model', has started to develop in Europe. In this model, the Licensing Model, which is still important, has been supplemented by a more active policy of collaborative research with industry....One of the main policy recommendations of our Group is that the adoption of the Innovation Model by European PROs should be encouraged as the most effective way to produce significant socioeconomic
benefits at European level from publicly funded research results."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/28/2004 10:43:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
