Towards a Framework for a New Research Ecosystem
JRC Working Papers in Economics and Finance, 2024/2
The global COVID-19 pandemic provided a “natural experiment” that demonstrated how international public-private collaborations can be not only feasible but also effective for addressing worldwide emergencies. The medical and scientific communities have been brought together and rallied to address a global health crisis, and have produced a number of effective treatments and prophylactics to control COVID-19. A similar coordinated approach, post-crisis, could be applied more generally, to help increase investments in science, innovation, and technology (SIT). However, there remain significant challenges.
In this short paper we outline 4 of the key issues that we have identified as critical challenges that must be ad-dressed in order to develop an environment conducive to collaboration across organizations and governments, while also preserving commercial rewards for investors and innovators:
1. Increasing funding incentives through lower risk financing models;
2. Researcher collaboration through various physical and virtual cross-disciplinary laboratories that create both incentives and infrastructure for sharing novel research results at all stages of the scientific process
3. Demarcating specific roles and opportunities for governments and public institutions (GPI), and
4. Revising regulatory and legal frameworks for governance and control of research, including those for protecting and sharing rights to IP.
SAVONA Roberto;
ALBERINI Cristina Maria;
ALESSI Lucia;
BAUSSANO Iacopo;
DELLAPORTAS Petros;
GUERRA Ranieri;
KHOZIN Sean;
MODENA Andrea;
PECORELLI Sergio;
RASI Guido;
SIVIERO Paolo Daniele;
STEIN Roger;
2024-02-06
European Commission
JRC134830
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC134830,
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