New science of sharing

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New Science of Sharing

Charles Terry sends in a great Business Week article on the New Science of Sharing:

"As large-scale scientific collaborations become the norm, scientists will rely increasingly on distributed methods of collecting data, verifying discoveries, and testing hypotheses not only to speed things up but to improve the veracity of scientific knowledge itself."

"Leading scientific observers already expect more change in the next 50 years of science than in the last 400 years of inquiry combined. As the pace of science quickens, there will be less value in stashing new scientific ideas, methods, and results in subscription-only journals and databases, and more value in wide-open collaborative-knowledge platforms that are refreshed with each new discovery."

"As mass collaboration takes root in the scientific community, companies have an opportunity to rethink how they do science, and even how they compete. One area in which new open scientific collaborations can pay dividends is in the early detection of disruptive innovations that could threaten a company's product roadmap—or, even better, generate entirely new products and services."