| Summary: |
" PRISC is a broadband infrastructure of scientific collections that serves both the research community and society at large. It is multi-disciplinary, representing a vast range of disciplines in the sciences, arts and humanities. Geographically, it presently encompasses the North, Centre and Lisbon regions but it aims at providing services to the whole Portuguese territory, including the autonomous regions. It cannot be said that PRISC's research will not result in patents - most likely it will because PRISC is a highly open-access oriented infrastructure.
PRISC's actions provide access, preserve, interpret and reappraise scientific collections, valuing both their associated material and immaterial value. Albeit indirectly, this produced knowledge. This, in turn, further explored from an applied research perspective by industry or R&D units can certainly result in patentable products and/or technologies. However, a direct patent output for PRISC is very difficult to estimate in quantitative terms. This difficulty results from three main factors.
First, the intangible nature of the infrastructure. PRISC aims at research resulting from scientific collections and museums. New knowledge will certainly be an output, but this new knowledge is problematic to translate into numbers of new technologies, products, processes or methods, particularly given that relations with the industry are still largely in their infancy.
Second, the time scale. PRISC deals with connections established between collections and museums with the scientific community and the public. The scientific and cultural meaning of these connections often become visible after longer periods of time, possibly even decades.
Third, the pioneer nature of PRISC. There is no research infrastructure as broad disciplinarily as PRISC, whether in Europe or North America. In other words, studies where patent estimates could be based on or compared to are inexistent, partial or insuffici  |
Summary
" PRISC is a broadband infrastructure of scientific collections that serves both the research community and society at large. It is multi-disciplinary, representing a vast range of disciplines in the sciences, arts and humanities. Geographically, it presently encompasses the North, Centre and Lisbon regions but it aims at providing services to the whole Portuguese territory, including the autonomous regions. It cannot be said that PRISC's research will not result in patents - most likely it will because PRISC is a highly open-access oriented infrastructure.
PRISC's actions provide access, preserve, interpret and reappraise scientific collections, valuing both their associated material and immaterial value. Albeit indirectly, this produced knowledge. This, in turn, further explored from an applied research perspective by industry or R&D units can certainly result in patentable products and/or technologies. However, a direct patent output for PRISC is very difficult to estimate in quantitative terms. This difficulty results from three main factors.
First, the intangible nature of the infrastructure. PRISC aims at research resulting from scientific collections and museums. New knowledge will certainly be an output, but this new knowledge is problematic to translate into numbers of new technologies, products, processes or methods, particularly given that relations with the industry are still largely in their infancy.
Second, the time scale. PRISC deals with connections established between collections and museums with the scientific community and the public. The scientific and cultural meaning of these connections often become visible after longer periods of time, possibly even decades.
Third, the pioneer nature of PRISC. There is no research infrastructure as broad disciplinarily as PRISC, whether in Europe or North America. In other words, studies where patent estimates could be based on or compared to are inexistent, partial or insufficient.
Therefore, PRISC has assumed a precautionary and conservative attitude towards its indicators, choosing to measure its impact in terms of scientific publications, as submitted and justified earlier. Having said this, patents will be actively stimulated during PRISC's activities and treated as the most important form of intellectual property." |