Shared data is considered a key driver of value creation. Shared data is valuable for research, innovation and value creation and helps to solve social challenges such as the development of sustainable mobility concepts, research into complex climate models or the fight against rare diseases. At the same time, data is often fragmented, both within industry and the scientific community, and in between them. Data trustees can act as intermediaries between data providers and potential users, overcoming information asymmetries and thus contributing to data sharing. Since 2021, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has been funding 20 projects for the development and practical testing of data trustee models in research and industry testing out data trustee models in various domains ranging from healthcare to wind energy. A consortium consisting of Technopolis Deutschland GmbH, Fraunhofer ISI, the Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste, UDK) and RWTH Aachen is conducting a study accompanying the implementation of the pilot projects. This paper presents preliminary results of the ongoing study.

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The full paper was produced in German and is available here.

Thomas Heimer
Scientific Director

Stephan Kreutzer
Partner

Lea Rabe
Consultant

Fiona Bauer
Research Assistant