Look to the commons for the future of R&D and science policy | Samuel Moore

flavoursofopenscience's bookmarks 2021-01-13

Summary:

 Originally posted on the LSE Impact Blog

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Often positioned as a ‘third way’ between the market and the state, ideas of the commons relate to the self-governance and maintenance of shared resources in a way that foregrounds cooperation over competition and shared ownership over private property. Elinor Ostrom, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for economics, devoted her career to the study of the commons and the ways in which collective action can deliver superior outcomes to private and competitive forms of enterprise. There are hundreds of successful examples of commons, from groundwater basins and irrigation systems, to online citizen science projects and community centres. Our own work on the Community-led Open Publishing Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project also seeks to find ways of further embedding community collaboration within infrastructures and models for open access knowledge dissemination. All of these projects prioritise – in varying degrees – community collaboration and management of shared resources.

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Link:

https://www.samuelmoore.org/2021/01/08/look-to-the-commons-for-the-future-of-rd-and-science-policy/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.commons oa.funders oa.policies oa.collaboration oa.infrastructure oa.scholcomm

Date tagged:

01/13/2021, 06:52

Date published:

01/13/2021, 01:52