A Missing Policy: Capacity Building for Sharing Scientific Knowledge

Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy 2011This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. In most cases, these works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. ©2011 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.Federal research policy focuses on how much should be invested in specific scientific problems and topics. Little attention is given to investment in the capacity needed to share the results of this research. Given the Internet revolution and the rise of i-Science this policy vacuum needs to be filled.U.S. Department of Energ