Research Data: A Public Good or a Private Asset?

This article is concerned with the issue of how Research Performing Organizations can balance the market and non-market values of the research data they hold. To address this issue, we adopt the lenses of the Resource Based View and Open Science and explore the interplay between them. In doing so,...

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Main Authors: Tadeu Fernando Nogueira, Trude Eikebrokk, Laila Økdal Aksetøy
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Language:English
Published: openjournals.nl 2025-06-01
Series:Liber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries
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description This article is concerned with the issue of how Research Performing Organizations can balance the market and non-market values of the research data they hold. To address this issue, we adopt the lenses of the Resource Based View and Open Science and explore the interplay between them. In doing so, this article addresses the question of whether it is possible to achieve a balance between research data as a public good and as a private asset and if so, how. Of particular interest are Research Performing Organizations in the institute sector that operate under both market and non-market logics, which have implications for how they govern their research data. From the discussions undertaken in the article, one of the main conclusions is that Research Performing Organizations may benefit from adopting a research data governance model that captures both the economic and societal values of research data. They could do so, for instance, by developing an integrative institutional policy and by actively using data management plans to evaluate the value of the data produced in research projects.
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spelling doaj-art-885a8fdf29ad4c068dd77d79a986924c2025-08-20T03:06:25Zengopenjournals.nlLiber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries2213-056X2025-06-0135110.53377/lq.22604Research Data: A Public Good or a Private Asset?Tadeu Fernando Nogueira0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0182-6141Trude Eikebrokk1Laila Økdal Aksetøy2SINTEF Group Head OfficeSINTEF Group Head OfficeSINTEF Energi AS This article is concerned with the issue of how Research Performing Organizations can balance the market and non-market values of the research data they hold. To address this issue, we adopt the lenses of the Resource Based View and Open Science and explore the interplay between them. In doing so, this article addresses the question of whether it is possible to achieve a balance between research data as a public good and as a private asset and if so, how. Of particular interest are Research Performing Organizations in the institute sector that operate under both market and non-market logics, which have implications for how they govern their research data. From the discussions undertaken in the article, one of the main conclusions is that Research Performing Organizations may benefit from adopting a research data governance model that captures both the economic and societal values of research data. They could do so, for instance, by developing an integrative institutional policy and by actively using data management plans to evaluate the value of the data produced in research projects. https://liberquarterly.eu/article/view/22604Research Data; Public Good; Private Asset; Research Data Governance; Research Performing Organizations.
spellingShingle Tadeu Fernando Nogueira
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Research Data: A Public Good or a Private Asset?
Liber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries
Research Data; Public Good; Private Asset; Research Data Governance; Research Performing Organizations.
title Research Data: A Public Good or a Private Asset?
title_full Research Data: A Public Good or a Private Asset?
title_fullStr Research Data: A Public Good or a Private Asset?
title_full_unstemmed Research Data: A Public Good or a Private Asset?
title_short Research Data: A Public Good or a Private Asset?
title_sort research data a public good or a private asset
topic Research Data; Public Good; Private Asset; Research Data Governance; Research Performing Organizations.
url https://liberquarterly.eu/article/view/22604
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