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Where indeed?
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| Having taken a job in biotech, I feel a bit
| cut off from any such community -- industry
| is notoriously protective of IP and fond of
| secrecy besides. I feel a bit of a fraud,
| for instance, taking part in discussions of
| Open Science issues on FriendFeed (such as
| the conversation kicked off by Alan's blog
| post), knowing that I can't talk openly
| about my own work. It doesn't keep me from
| shooting off my yap, of course, but it's a
| nagging icky feeling -- and I keep getting
| the meta-feeling that it doesn't have to be
| this way. Just as secrecy in academia only
| makes sense within the existing reward
| structure, secrecy in industry could be at
| least partly offset by policy decisions that
| recognize the gains in efficiency that
| collaboration can bring. I've heard multiple
| times from multiple sources that industry
| may close itself off from the rest of the
| world, but within a company, the teamwork
| ethic is amazing. Clearly, the value of co-
| operation is recognized. Why shouldn't that
| also work for (larger and larger) groups of
| companies? What you lose by not being the
| only company to know something from which
| profit can be made (call it X) is offset by
| the fact that you might never have learned X
| without the collaboration -- and in the
| meantime, the world gets X that much faster.
|
| It seems clear, though, that such top-down
| decisions are more likely to be made in
| academia, and perhaps the nonprofit sector,
| than in profit-driven industry -- at least
| until there are enough concrete examples of
| success to tip the perceived balance of
| risk. If I'm -- if we Open Foo types are --
| right, it's actually riskier to compete than
| to cooperate in the long term. Better to own
| a share of X sooner than to delay any return
| on your investment in the hope of owning X
| outright later. This is especially true when
| the resources required to try to own X could
| be used to get you shares in multiple other
| projects at the same time.
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http://www.sennoma.net/main/archives/2010/03/where_indeed.php
Recent:
Why Hasnât Scientific Publishing Been Disrupted Already?
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| When Tim Berners-Lee created the Web in 1991,
| it was with the aim of better facilitating
| scientific communication and the dissemination
| of scientific research. Put another way, the
| Web was designed to disrupt scientific
| publishing. It was not designed to disrupt
| bookstores, telecommunications, matchmaking
| services, newspapers, pornography, stock
| trading, music distribution, or a great many
| other industries.
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http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/01/04/why-hasnt-scientific-publishing-been-disrupted-already/
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