Expert View - Giuseppina Vullo

As for Quality, I like the connections between the certification/standardisation actions, cost-effectiveness, and Open Access solutions highlighted in the EC’s Digital Agenda for Europe:
“Europe’s public sector expenditure should be used to spur innovation while raising the efficiency and quality of public services. European public authorities must join forces to align regulation, certification, procurement and standardisation in favour of innovation. Public and private partnerships and stakeholder fora are needed that lay out joint technology roadmaps, from research to commercialisation, for harnessing innovation to social need. Knowledge transfer activities should be managed effectively and supported by suitable financial instruments and publicly funded research should be widely disseminated through Open Access publication of scientific data and papers”.

COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS
A Digital Agenda for Europe, European Commission, Brussels, 19 May 2010, p. 23, section 2.5.2.

Giuseppina Vullo, Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow