[Patents] open science and open source

[Jim Bessen" <jbessen@researchoninnovation.org (Jim Bessen)]

Paul David, the well-known economic historian (Stanford and Oxford), has 
written an interesting piece about EC intellectual property activity 
(especially the database directive) and scientific research. He draws an 
analogy between open science and open software. Check out:

"Will Building 'Good Fences' Really Make 'Good Neighbors' in Science? "
at http://www-econ.stanford.edu/faculty/workp/swp01005.html.

Also of interest, a paper on the historical origins of open science,
>From Keeping 'Nature's Secrets' to the Institutionalization of 'Open 
>Science' 
http://www-econ.stanford.edu/faculty/workp/swp01006.html

and also one on database IPR
The Digital Technology Boomerang: New Intellectual Property Rights Threaten 
Global "Open Science" 
http://www-econ.stanford.edu/faculty/workp/swp00016.html

Jim Bessen

Paul David, the well-known economic historian (Stanford and Oxford), has written an interesting piece about EC intellectual property activity (especially the database directive) and scientific research. He draws an analogy between open science and open software. Check out:

 

"Will Building ‘Good Fences’ Really Make ‘Good Neighbors’ in Science? "

at http://www-econ.stanford.edu/faculty/workp/swp01005.html.

 

Also of interest, a paper on the historical origins of open science,

From Keeping 'Nature's Secrets' to the Institutionalization of 'Open Science'

http://www-econ.stanford.edu/faculty/workp/swp01006.html

 

and also one on database IPR

The Digital Technology Boomerang: New Intellectual Property Rights Threaten Global "Open Science"

http://www-econ.stanford.edu/faculty/workp/swp00016.html

 

Jim Bessen