Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth: Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, by Command of Her Majesty, December 2011
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"To succeed in the global innovation economy, the UK must strengthen its ability to accelerate the commercialisation of emerging technologies, and to capture the value chains linked to these....We are also seeking to ensure that government policies stimulate, rather than hinders, UK innovation through...Increasing access to public data or to knowledge created as a result of publicly-funded research; and Accepting all the recommendations in the review of intellectual property by Professor Ian Hargreaves..... We believe publiclyfunded research should be freely available. We have commissioned independent groups of academics and publishers to review the availability of published research, and to develop action plans for making this freely available. We will also create an Open Data Institute, which will develop semantic web technologies for using data more effectively, and will advise the public sector and business as to how best to use these and manage their data so it can be exploited for economic and social beneits....We will make data and research indings widely available online for anyone to remix and reuse..."