Category Archives: IP

Biopharma innovation: Open drug discovery? Not yet, but maybe some day

By Deepak Singh | Published: March 30, 2009
Interesting post from Joerg, who is not so sure about open innovation in drug design. He makes some good points, with the observation In other words, if you do not need the money, do whatever you like openly. If you need the money, e.g. for clinical trials, then please make sure staying within the [...]
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Learning from RedMonk’s “open source” conundrum

By Deepak Singh | Published: August 17, 2008
Just chanced upon a wonderful post by Steve O’Grady of Redmonk. The post touches upon a subject near and dear to my heart and to those of many in the online bio community; licensing. The background: RedMonk bills itself as an open source analyst firm, and has historically licensed content under a CC-NC-SA license. [...]
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The commons and the anticommons

By Deepak Singh | Published: August 12, 2008
Book cover via Amazon Fascinating article by James Surowiecki in the New Yorker. In The Permission Problem, Surowiecki talks about the anticommons. The take home message can probably be summed up by the following If too many people own individual parts of a valuable asset, it’s easy to end up with gridlock, since [...]
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Is your web service open source?

By Deepak Singh | Published: August 5, 2008
Image via WikipediaThis is going to be a controversial post, or so I hope. If only for the reason that my thoughts around this matter are conflicted between two instincts that don’t always fly well together; a strong believe in the power of profit and a belief that foundational software should be open source. Yesterday, [...]
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The Open Data licensing issue

By Deepak Singh | Published: May 11, 2008
A little tied up this weekend, so will keep it brief. I have added a number of comments on Friendfeed to posts I have shared from Google Reader about what the licensing of data should be. The whole thing started by Antony Williams announcing CC support for data on ChemSpider. That was [...]
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