Why are patents and locked up science seen as the way forward for growth and innovation?

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Inspired by the many discussions surrounding the release of the Aaron Swartz documentary, "The Internet Own Boy", I've put together a blog post with some thoughts about the future of science and the challenges we're facing as a society with our current academic knowledge financial schemes:

These past few weeks have highlighted the crossroads that we as a society are facing: Whether non-open data, siloed knowledge and patented ideas make up the best way for growth and innovation? Or whether the logic of the Internet with it’s open data, open knowledge sharing, open sourcing and remix-culture is the right path for the modern society?

Read the full blog post here on the Open Knowledge blog - and the original Danish version, published by Den Fri.

Photo: Simon Cocks under CC BY 2.0 licence

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