D 8.3. Data Management Plan

#  Plan Details

The objectives of the EUXCEL project were to:

  1. Create more ICT entrepreneurs who are ‘Incubator ready’, 

  

  2. Foster inter-regional European entrepreneurship collaboration, developing a ‘Born European’ entrepreneurship mind-set among cohorts of ICT/ entrepreneurship student teams, 

  

  3. Develop a network of ICT creative entrepreneurship spaces, 

  

  4. Host six start-up scrums (summer schools) in six countries (Denmark, Ireland, Germany, Greece, Poland and Spain) per year of project to include extended participation from other associated countries, 

  

  5. Prototype and support the EU Virtual Incubator platform to continue development of the technology and business using virtual teams, 

  

  6. Host and pilot two European Entrepreneurial Tech Challenge finals in Year 1 and Year 2 of the project where the best teams from the ‘start-up scrums’ compete and pitch before expert panels. 

  

  

The project conducted research studies using psychological scales which sought
to examine the role of variety of personality characteristics within the
entrepreneurial process, particularly within the startup team setting. he data
collected is intended to contribute to understanding of founding team dynamics
in ICT entrepreneurship.

Key details describing the administration of the plan are provided in Table 1.  
  
<table>  
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<th>

**Plan Name**

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<th>

EUXCEL Data Management Plan

</th> </tr>  
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<td>

**Grant Number**

</td>  
<td>

644801

</td> </tr>  
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<td>

**Principal Investigator**

</td>  
<td>

Brian O’Flaherty

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

**Plan Data Contact**

</td>  
<td>

Brian O’Flaherty, b.oflaherty@ucc.ie

</td> </tr> </table>

Table 1: EUXCEL Data Plan Administrative Details

The plan is based on the template provided by the European Commission in
accordance with the Open Research Data Pilot.

#  Data Set Description

Data relating to between 10 and 15 psychological constructs and behavioural
patterns will be stored on the repository. This data will be relevant to
research in small group dynamics, virtual team work, and entrepreneurship.
Individual level constructs measured include entrepreneurial intentionality,
entrepreneurial skills, entrepreneurial passion, emotional intelligence, fear
of failure, and resilience. Team level constructs include transactive memory
systems, team confidence, and shared identity. The

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data will be used by small teams working in new project development, software
development teams, virtual teams, startup incubators, and entrepreneurship
researchers.

#  Accessibility and Metadata

The data will be readily accessible on the Zenodo platform, and will be issued
with a digitial object identifier (DOI). Metadata will accompany all data
sheets, listing and describing each measured construct and enabling
researchers to reuse the results provided. The data will be created through
the generation of spreadsheets from electronic surveys. These surveys were
issued to participants in the EUXCEL project at a number of points throughout
the two cycles of the programme. Two separate files will be created from this
data, each pertaining to one cycle of the EUXCEL programme, and the files will
be named accordingly. The project description will enable researchers to
contextualise the data, and both the metadata and data itself will allow other
researchers to understand the procedures undertaken and test for reliability.
The data will be stored in XLS format, as this will ease interpretation and
analysis, while also facilitating transfer of the data to social science
research statistical software such as SPSS. This format will also enable both
the long term sharing and validity of the data.

The archive is available at the following link location.

_https://zenodo.org/record/888835_

#  Data Sharing and Archiving

Data will be shared through the creation of a collection on the Zenodo
platform. Zenodo is a research depository that was created by OpenAIRE and
CERN. OpenAIRE is a Horizon 2020 project which supported the implementation of
the European Commission Open Access policies. Zenodo allows researchers to
create publicly available repositories that are both searchable and citable.
The data will be stored on CERN's repository software, INVENIO. It will also
take advantage of the Zenodo DOI function which allows editing and updating of
the data files over time and citations of the data in future research
publications.

The data will be safely stored in the Zenodo repository long after the
original collection of the data. Along with the metadata and project
documentation provided, this will mean that the data will be useful for
entrepreneurship and social science researchers as long as the constructs
examined have value for them. Both data files and metadata are kept in
multiple online and independent replicas. CERN has made a commitment to
maintain the data centre. Should Zenodo have to close operations, they have
issued a guarantee that all content will be migrated to other suitable
repositories, and since all uploads have DOIs, all citations and links to the
stored data will not be affected.

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