Let me continue last week’s reflection on the need for knowledge-integrating institutions. Maybe we could quickly agree that bridging the 10-90 gap requires all hands on deck, hands which join forces, insights, knowledge, thoughts. But if a central interfaculty did not really work 40 years ago, why would it work now? To mention just a [...]
Archive for November, 2009
17. Frontiers of wisdom
Posted in Aims, Aims of Science, Fragmentation/integration, Incentives, Other, Research policy, tagged Central Interfaculties, fragmentation of knowledge on November 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The insight that technologies function as part of social and cultural worlds, and so will not work all by themselves, has become widespread. In social studies of science it is typically concluded that what is required is participatory technology development. But apart from the participatory aspect we may focus on knowledge itself. For global gaps [...]
16. Chills
Posted in Aims, Incentives, Intellectual property, Towards openness, tagged benefit sharing, breeders' rights, Croplife, Plantum, valorization on November 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Open Access to scientific publications is part of a broader movement regarding knowledge: from competition and protection to sharing and collaboration. Intellectual property is one, or the, centre issue. For example, in a 2008 report, the International Expert Group on Biotechnology, Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights argued for abandoning the old IP regime that rests [...]
15. Open Floodgates
Posted in Incentives, Publishing, Towards openness, tagged NWO, open access on November 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The movement towards openness is making unequal progress; some frontiers have become floodgates, while others are battlefields, or even less than that. Open Access streams through the floodgates. Following in the footsteps of the English Wellcome Trust, the American National Institutes of Health and the Swedish Vetenskapsradet, the Dutch Organization of Scientific research (NWO) announced [...]
