Geert Van Grootel

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Geert Van Grootel

• Flemish government
• Economy, Science and Innovation dept.
• Knowledge Management Division
• Koning Albert II-laan, 35 bus 10
• 1030 Brussel
• geert.vangrootel_at_ewi.vlaanderen.be

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Flanders Research Information Space (FRIS)

• Accelerating the Flemish innovation value chain

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Overview

• The FRIS concept
• How can FRIS help to achieve our goal?
• The FRIS programme
• Projects portfolio

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Wealth in a knowledge based economy depends on
the efficacy of the innovation value chain
Society
Creation of welfare
Knowledge economy
Valorisation
Flemish innovation chain
VIA it is very important for the business life
in Flanders to utilize the pool of knowledge in
those knowledge institutions up to a maximum
research institutions
industry
open innovation
technology
science
government
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There is a need for research information

• Intelligent search tools in order to find
• researchers, projects
• research results (publications, patents, )
• expertise
• collaboration partners
• Funding opportunities guide
• Electronic funding request
• E-portfolio researcher
• Automated reporting of research institutions

(uit o.a. e-Onderzoek, Indigov 2007FRIS
workshop mei 2007 klantenbevraging Egov
Capgemini 2004 Informatiestromen Capgemini Ernst
Young 2003)
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The research information space
industry
research institutions
editors
Investment opportunities
publications
Research organisation
libraries
patents
products
data centres
researchers
projects
government
research data
facilities
equipment
researchers
financers
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Approach creation of a research information
space and a change process

• research information space
• use of existing infrastructure
• autonomy of stakeholders
• distributed management
• sharing and exchanging information
• process integration across actors
• crossroad databse model
• qualitative and secure
• Unique identification of persons, projects,
• general guidelines (management, definitions,
  standards (CERIF), )

• Change
• Cultural change
• Long term strategic vision
• stakeholder ownership (incl. top management
  sponsorship)
• Not a development project but change programme
• Demand driven waves of projects
• Programme organisation

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Central principle

• Generate the required information directly from
  the data within processes at and between the
  stakeholders
• Faster and reduced workload
• Data quality guaranted
• Simultaneity - real time data

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FRIS programme vision

• Strategic goals
• Accelerate the innovation value chain
• Offer improved customer services(e-government)
• Increase efficiency and effectiveness of the RD
  policy

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Vision and strategic goals
a simple, transparent and open research
information space that contributes to the
Flemish knowledge based economy (and
strengthening the international competitive
position of Flanders)
more efficient and effective policy (monitoring)
innovation value chain works faster
better customer services (e-government)
improved information flow
enhancing strategic intelligence
better information complete, correct, actual
increased networking capacities finding expertise
maximal reuse of data
higher responsivity of the policy domain
improved and faster valorisation
Simple and uniform processes
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Change goals

• Make processes visible, measurable and manageable
• Information sharing between governmental actors
  in administrative processes
• Information consolidation communication

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Change goals

• Make processes visible, measurable and manageable
• Explicit processes via shared process services
• Business Activity Monitoring and real-time view
  of KPIs
• Increased agility through separation between
  process logic and program logic

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Change goals

• Information sharing between governmental actors
  in administrative processes
• Reduce questionnaires to a minimum
• Integrate across information silos
• Standardise automate reporting
• Support cross organisational workflows

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Change goals

• Information consolidation communication
• Timely and consolidated information on RD
  activities ease the policy development, policy
  evaluation and policy adaptation
• Supports decision making for RD actors
• Supports Industrial actors with partner search

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Flanders Research Information Space
Generate the required information directly from
the data within processes at and between the
stakeholders Faster and reduced workload - Data
quality guaranteed - Simultaneity - real time
data

• Globally (includes all stakeholders)
• Network of federated repositories
• For by all stakeholders
• researchers, educators students
• industry
• management
• public
• Open Acces via open standards
• Semantically rich environment
• Maximal formal information interconnection

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Power Interest matrix

• Minister Patricia Ceysens
• IWT
• FWO
• Working group annual reports
• Hercules foundation

Individual researcher
ATTENTION Stakeholder management is required!!!
Interest
Universities
Businesses
Power
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Importance of FRIS for the stakeholders

• Faster valorisation and stronger innovation
  system
• Open versus closed innovation
• A more attractive research and innovation
  environment ?
• increased RD investments
• Visibility of research information opens new
  horizons

industry
researchers

• Reduced administrative burden
• Increased visibility
• Benchmarking

• Reduced administrative burden
• Increased visibility
• Benchmarking
• Better management

researchinstitutions

• Increased agility of the policy
• Finding experts more easily and faster
• Benchmarking

government
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Architectural vision

• Services
• Messages
• Extensions
• Industrial standards
• Development and management platform
• Messaging platform
• Front end applications

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Golf...
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Programme organisation
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FRIS Program organisation
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Critical success factors

• Powerful programme organisation managing several
  specialist working groups (unique identification,
  classification management, and other projects to
  be defined).Sufficient powerful internal and
  external ambassadors carrying out the FRIS
  concept.
• Sufficient resources, budget and human competence
  available to launch FRIS.
• Profound analysis of required activities,
  information, persons and resources to achieve a
  programme plan supported by the top management of
  the institutions as well by the researchers and
  industry.

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Schedule FRIS programme
Developing and implementing projects together
with all stakeholders

Outphasing stage
Presentation management committee
Development programme-organisation
Presentation Minister P. Ceysens
EWI Research portal online
Pilot project publications
Working programme 2008-2009 ready
Pilot project x
principal go/no go
Pilot project y
Pilot project z
Go/no go
Development stage
Implementing stage
21 dec 2007
7 jan 2008
mar 2008
feb 2008
jul 2008
aug 2008
jun 2008
mei 2008
2012
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Risks

• Conflicts of interest
• Cultural differences
• Resilience to change
• Inadequate processes ?Poor data quality
• No common semantics (e.g. classifications..)
• Unique identification privacy issues
• Diversity
• Complexity

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Running FRIS projects
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FRIS research portalwww.researchportal.be
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EWI Research Portal
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FRIS Research Portal

• Project, Person, Organisational Units,
  Publications
• Release II ( end 2008)
• Equipment
• Funding Programme
• Expertise Skills
• Patents
• University Colleges Research Institutes

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FRIS Research Portal release 2

• Integration of new end-user tools
• Analytic service
• Collaboration diagrams
• Competence maps
• Information services
• Expert Finder
• Partner Finder
• Funding Opportunities support
• Classification management
• Community tools

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Publications

• Publication domain model
• Repository harvesting
• OIA-PMH
• Metadata CERIF2006 ? CERIF2008
• Goal all publication metadata in Research Portal
• Monitoring Output statistics based on Research
  Portal database
• Implement CERIF2008 publication extensions

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"Succes is the ability to go from one failure to
another with no loss of enthousiasm. Sir
Winston Churchill, British politician (1874-1965)
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Annual plan of public calls
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Timetable of evaluation process
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Guidelines prepared by the Ministry
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Elements of transparency

• Transparency of procedures
• Evaluation methodology unique for each field of
  science
• Transparent membership in expert bodies
  (published on SRA home page)
• Procedure of peers selection is known in advance
• Evaluation criteria (questions for peers) are
  prepared, adopted and published in advance
• Publicly available results of selection process

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Evaluation methodology
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Results of evaluation
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Elements of transparency

• Financial Transparency
• Annual financial reports (White book on
  financing)
• Up-to date overview of distribution of budget
  (online white book)

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Annual report on financing
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Up-to date financing overview
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Elements of transparency

• Transparency of research results
• Use of COBISS bibliographic system
• Use of SICRIS system and its abstracts of
  research work
• The most important scientific results
• Socio-economic significance of research
• Use of international citation indexes (ISI, CSA
  and other bibliographic databases
• In the future implementation of full text
  database

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COBISS bibliographic system
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• 2. SPLICHAL, Slavko. The principle of publicity,
  public use of reason and social control. Media
  cult. soc., 2002, let. 24, t. 1, str. 5-26.
  COBISS.SI-ID 21076573, WoS, t. citatov do
  3.10.06 0, brez avtocitatov 0 JCR IF 0.236,
  x 0.611 sociology 74/93 kategorija 1B2 (Z1)
  tipologijo je verificiral OSICD tocke 40, t.
  avtorjev 1
• 3. SPLICHAL, Slavko. Bentham, Kant and the right
  to communicate. Crit. rev. (N.Y. N.Y.),
  Summer/Fall 2003, let. 15, no. 3/4, str. 285-305.
  COBISS.SI-ID 22641245, WoS, t. citatov do
  7.2.07 1, brez avtocitatov 0 JCR IF , x
  0.468 social sciences, interdisciplinary 55/55
  kategorija 1B2 (Z1) tipologijo je verificiral
  OSICD tocke 40, t. avtorjev 1

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SICRIS information system
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International citation indexes
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Publications in scientific journals with ISI index
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