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[Brook Schofield <schofield AT terena.org>]

On 28 November 2014 at 14:50, Jaime Pérez Crespo <jaime.perez AT uninett.no> wrote:

So the conclusion would be that private companies can definitely be part of the “academic world”, that meaning either being educational or research institutions, and therefore they should not be excluded by Service Providers targeting academic organizations just because they are private.

And the EC is encouraging Public Private Partnerships so I think that the lines are going to get blurred on purpose - unless federations want to keep their collaboration with the commercial sector close to their community and not into the wider eduGAIN connected researchers :-) http://ec.europa.eu/research/industrial_technologies/ppp-in-research_en.html

-Brook

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