My experiment with open science: Why the benefits of sharing go beyond source code

Beyond open data: realising the health benefits of sharing data.

Elizabeth Pisani visiting senior research fellow 1 , Peter Aaby professor 2 , J Gabrielle Breugelmans networking manager , David Carr programme manager , Trish Groves director of academic outreach , Michelle Helinski project officer , Dorcas Kamuya researcher , Steven Kern deputy director 7 quantitative sciences , Katherine Littler senior policy adviser , Vicki Marsh associate professor , Soule...

The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond

T he open source process of production and innovation seems very unlike what most economists expect. Private firms usually pay their workers, direct and manage their efforts, and control the output and intellectual property thus created. In an open source project, however, a body of original material is made publicly available for others to use, under certain conditions. In many cases, anyone w...

Beyond NGS data sharing and towards open science

Biosciences have been revolutionized by next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies in last years, leading to new perspectives in medical, industrial and environmental applications. And although our motivation comes from biosciences, the following is true for many areas of science: published results are usually hard to reproduce either because data is not available or tools are not readily av...

The Open Source Myth Why Executives Should Think Twice about Making Company Source Code Public

This article attempts to address the issue of whether open source software companies may be undermining their own competitive advantages by undervaluing the strategic importance of intellectual property. If this would be true, companies could risk their existence by following a potentially destructive business model. We will first take a look at the historic development of the open source movem...

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