The Free and Open Science/Technology Paradigm

Imagine a vastly accelerated research and development 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. 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. New, sophisticated reputation “feedback” algorithms (like those powering Ebay or Amazon but designed for science), supplant the old static journal model. 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. Work done on open source projects would allow young researchers to build prestige, without regard to traditional hierarchy. New funding mechanisms such as microfinance for science and Open Innovation prizes, would spur progress and provide further incentives. Next, research tools would be widely shared and disseminated, not hidden behind industrial secre

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