[sc-announce] Could the key to feeding the world be locked up in a company fridge somewhere? -- Science Commons blog
Donna Wentworth
dwentworth at creativecommons.org
Thu Jan 10 08:17:29 EST 2008
Could the key to feeding the world be locked up in a company fridge
somewhere?<http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2008/01/10/could-the-key-to-feeding-the-world/>
January
10th, 2008
That's the question Australia's Science
Show<http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/>asks to introduce a newly
available podcast
discussion <http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2007/2122486.htm>featuring
Science Commons' own John Wilbanks and Brian Fitzgerald, who heads
up Creative Commons Australia. The question isn't nearly as tongue-in-cheek
as it sounds; the discussion is about how to unlock the value of scientific
research when so much of it is routinely balkanized — hidden away behind
walls of secrecy, cost and technical obscurity.
At Science Commons, we work to make scientific research easier to find,
share and use. This includes providing tools to "mark" research with usage
rights <http://scholars.sciencecommons.org/>, so scientists can work and
collaborate within zones of legal certainty. But as Wilbanks explains in the
lecture, "we need freedom to innovate, not simply freedom to operate" —
something that requires more than developing licenses and contracts:
I think it's clear that we face an exponential set of problems but we don't
have an exponential innovation capacity…we need to think about what we can
do to enable that innovation to emerge.
If you'd like to learn more about what Science Commons is doing to spur
innovation and discovery in science, follow the link above to the podcast
and podcast transcript, or browse our slides for the
lecture<http://www.slideshare.net/wilbanks/alfred-deakin-innovation-lecture-wilbanks/>
.
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Donna Wentworth
Communications Specialist
Science Commons
http://sciencecommons.org
dwentworth at creativecommons.org <kaitlin at creativecommons.org>
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