[open-science] Danes step away from patenting in favour of ‘open science’ | THE News

Thu Aug 10 07:45:18 UTC 2017

Dear Heather, dear all,

Indeed, it is an interesting step towards open source science:
http://www.e-pages.dk/aarhusuniversitet/1618/html5/

The Structural Genomic Consortium (SGC) has had this policy for a long time
now: http://www.thesgc.org/openaccess/about/details

The Montreal Neurological Institute (aka The Neuro at McGill) mentioned by
Daniel has been heavily inspired by the SGC that was founded at the
University of Toronto.

I think we should carefully, but seriously, consider open source as an
important part of open science, but it is not the panacea. From what I
observe, it works in precompetitive research, and it works with
technologies that are not the core business of an industry. Some argue that
generous licensing of a patented technology can bring more impact than open
sourcing it.

If anyone knows of any analysis on the topic, I would love to hear about it.

L.

On 10 August 2017 at 04:55, Daniel Mietchen <daniel.mietchen at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> The Montreal Neurological Institute has also dropped institutional
> support for patents in favour of open science:
> https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2001259
> http://www.mcgill.ca/neuro/open-science-0
> https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/in-montreal-a-wee-
> opening-in-the-closed-world-of-science-research/article33372907/
>
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 3:45 AM, Heather Morrison
> <Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca> wrote:
> > Patent-free research seems a logical step for open science - comments?
> Does
> > anyone know of any other initiatives like this?
> >
> > https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/danes-step-away-patenting-
> favour-open-science
> >
> > best,
> >
> > Heather Morrison
> >
> >
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