Strengthening and opening up health research by sharing our raw data.

The first presenter, Professor Mariana Mazzucato (University of Sussex, UK), spoke about EU innovation policy in relation to risk taking and obtaining the return, and she challenged the common, but false, assumption that the public sector has a limited role in economic growth and innovation. The second presenter, technology writer Glyn Moody, focused on equitable licensing, open-source research, and access to scientific knowledge. I was the third speaker and focused on the moral obligation and societal benefits of providing free access to all anonymized raw patient data from clinical research. This article is an almost verbatim reproduction of my talk.