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Funders spend $1.6 trillion worldwide, annually on research. Important for them to know the impact research is having. (MC: Note the confusion regarding the purpose of research – research is for learning about the physical world. Translation is for moving research results into practice and is not typically done by researchers. Translation is done by care givers (medicine), policy makers, extension (agriculture) and companies through tech transfer (pharmaceuticals, engineering). For funding agencies to hold researchers accountable for impact is quite strange, unless the research specifically is specifically about how to create impact or how to increase impact. Studies to create impact are typically not research – they are contracts to provide training or incentives for making changes related to research findings.)
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Mark Hahnel. Figshare.
Muriel Swijghuisen. ?? Visiting fellow, Goldsmiths College. Representing humanities and the social sciences.
Berris Charnley. Oxford. Academia has been a closed shop for sometime. We don't recognize leadership, other contributions.
Second post lunch session
Mikael ElabekRichard Wynne, Axis
Lluis Anglada
Simon Coles
Ricard Wynne, Axis
Use your Orcid to login via Auth2. PloS, FundRef, Axis, 55 publishers, 2,500 journals
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