<br><b> Open Science Summit 2010</b><br><br> July 29-31, 2010<br> <a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/">University of California, Berkeley</a> <br><br><br> <a href="http://opensciencesummit.com/">http://opensciencesummit.com/</a><br>
<br><br>...<br><br><br>The Open Science Summit is the first and only event to consider what
happens throughout the entire innovation chain as reform in one area
influences the prospects in others. In the best case scenario, a
virtuous circle of mutually reinforcing shifts toward transparency and
collaboration could unleash hitherto untapped reserves of human
ingenuity.<br><br>....<br><br>
Open Access Journals have demonstrated a new path for publishing that
utilizes the power of the internet to instantly distribute ideas
instead of imposing artificial scarcity to prop up old business models.<br>
<br>...<br><br>Imagine a vastly accelerated research, development, and
commercialization cycle using an entire Open Innovation process from
start to finish. In both commercial and academic labs, scientists would
log results using Open Protocols such as Open Wetware. <br><br>In the next
stage, scientists submit to Open Access journals—but the process of
peer review would be ongoing as “real time publication” allowed
researchers to transform results into a publication along a continuum
that ranged from initial reports to rough drafts to final submissions.
A paper would never be “finished” as critique and response would be
ongoing long after publication. <br><br>New, sophisticated reputation
“feedback” algorithms (like those powering Ebay or Amazon but optimized
for science), supplant the old static journal model. <br><br><br>This is already
emerging to a limited extent with tentative forays into social
networking software for science and post publication commentary
experiments such as PLoS One. Young post-docs, instead of laboring
under a stultifying grant system that rewards conservatism and
incrementalism, pitting researchers against each other for an
artificially limited number of spots, could simultaneously compete and
collaborate with others around the globe, using platforms such as that
being developed by India’s Open Source Drug Discovery Foundation.<br><br>....<br><br>Work done on open source projects would allow young researchers to build prestige, without regard to traditional hierarchy<br><br>....<br>
<br>Next, research tools would be widely shared and disseminated, not
hidden behind industrial secrecy or priced out of reach via an
exclusive license. Platform “enabling technologies” in some of the
world’s most important fields would be maintained as a “protected
commons.”<br><br>....<br><br><br> <a href="http://opensciencesummit.com/">http://opensciencesummit.com/</a><br>
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