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Last week I took part in a meeting at the European Parliament entitled “Horizon 2020: Investing in the common good”. Here's the backg...

Last week I was invited to talk at the South Tyrol Free Software Conference which took place in northern Italy, in the city of Bolzano (d...

For some reason, I seem to be giving talks all over the place this month. I've already written about the one that I presented at the Eur...

Last week I wrote about a talk I gave with the title “Innovation inducement prizes as a possible mechanism to unlock the benefits of open in...

Great interview with Mr Open Innovation, Eric von Hippel, who has these wise words of advice: It is true that the most rapidly developing d...

It's a truism that there are more clever people out there than in here, wherever "here" may be. So it makes sense to try to ta...

...is all very well, but will only work properly if attitudes to current intellectual monopolies change. Simply licensing stuff to and fro...

As part of my random reading around the Web, I came across this site . For once, what caught my attention was not the espousal of "Ope...

Since this whole blog is predicated on the commonality that exists between open source, open genomics, open access, open content, and open b...