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Talis Incubator for Open Education
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| Iâm very excited to announce today that we are launching an angel fund to
| help Open Education projects.
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| The Talis Incubator for Open Education provides funding of up to Â15,000 to
| help individuals or small groups who have big ideas about furthering the
| cause of Open Education. All we ask in return is that you âopen sourceâ the
| results and return the intellectual property back to the community. We wonât,
| and never will, exert any rights whatsoever as to the intellectual property
| or ideas that we fund.
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http://blogs.talis.com/education/2009/08/07/talis-incubator-for-open-education/
The Real Hope for Nanotechnology
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| Nanotechnology is one of those subjects that seem to veer between hope and
| hype. DNA-based solutions look among the most promising, because of the fact
| that the material has evolved to solve many of the same problems as
| nanotechnology; more subtly, it is inherently digital, which makes its
| manipulation much easier - and promises structures of almost infinite
| complexity under computer control.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/08/real-hope-for-nanotechnology.html
Stephen Friend, Leaving High-Powered Merck Gig, Lights Fire for Open Source
Biology Movement
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| Sage, as we first described back in March, is attempting to do for biology
| what Facebook and Twitter have done for social networking, and Linux has for
| open-source software. Sage is needed because biologists are beginning to see
| how vast networks of genes get perturbed in complex diseases like cancer,
| diabetes, and multiple sclerosis.
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http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/08/06/stephen-friend-leaving-high-powered-merck-gig-lights-the-fire-for-open-source-biology-movement/
Recent:
Open Source Cognitive Science
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| A new site with the self-explanatory name of "Open source cognitive science"
| has an interesting opening post about Tools for Psychology and Neuroscience,
| pointing out that...
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/07/open-source-cognitive-science.html
The Open-Minded Professor - An Interview with Eric von Hippel, MITâs Sloan
School of Management
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| It is true that the most rapidly developing designs are those where many can
| participate and where the intellectual property is open. Think about open
| source software as an example of this. What firms have to remember is that
| they have many ways to profit from good new products, independent of IP.
| Theyâve got brands; theyâve got distribution; theyâve got lead time in the
| market. They have a lot of valuable proprietary assets that are not dependent
| on IP.
|
| If youâre going to give out your design capability to others, users
| specifically, then what you have to do is build your business model on the
| non-design components of your mix of competitive advantages. For instance,
| recall the case of custom semiconductor firms I mentioned earlier. Those
| companies gave away their job of designing the circuit to the user, but they
| still had the job of manufacturing those user-designed semiconductors, they
| still had the brand, they still had the distribution. And thatâs how they
| make their money.
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| It is also true that firms can base their new products on user-developed
| designs and still capture significant IP protection from internally developed
| improvements. That is the pattern we found in research we did at 3M. Even
| when 3M developers sourced the basic idea for a new product line from users,
| they were able to capture strong IP by patenting their improvements to the
| user idea.
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http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_US/us/Insights/Browse-by-Content-Type/deloitte-review/article/7930c99d77ea2210VgnVCM200000bb42f00aRCRD.htm
Publishing science on the web
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| But the Web does a lot of this for us outside of science. It's become easy to
| write and read, and to use Google as a memory cache. The ability to rapidly
| find relevant information is part of daily life for us outside of science.
| But inside of science there is complaint that even within one's own
| specialized discipline, there is too much to read, too many journals, too
| little time. This doesn't even begin to include the coming deluge of data
| wrought by the relentless miniaturization and parallelization of a world
| where data is generated by robotic lab machinery and captured by tiny,
| ubiquitous sensors.
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http://scienceblogs.com/commonknowledge/2009/07/publishing_science_on_the_web.php
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