Cyberstructure for Collaboration and Innovation: Selected Conference Papers

The papers in this special issue of First Monday were originally presented at a conference held at the National Academies on 29–30 January 2007, co–sponsored by the National Science Foundation, University of Michigan, Council on Competitiveness, Committee for Economic Development, and Science Commons.

• Issues in IP Management to Support Open Access in Collaborative Innovation Models
  by Sara Boettiger
• Intellectual Property and Cyberinfrastructure
  by Dan L. Burk
• Knowledge Management Architectures Beyond Technology
  by Marla M. Capozzi
• Cyberinfrastructure and Patent Thickets: Challenges and Responses
  by Gavin Clarkson
• Is ‘Designing’ Cyberinfrastructure — or, Even, Defining It — Possible?
  by Peter A. Freeman
• Infrastructure Commons in Economic Perspective
  by Brett M. Frischmann
• Economic Experiments in Internet Access Markets
  by Shane Greenstein
• The Role of Patents in Technology Markets: Issues Pertaining to Data Collection and Analysis
  by Dominique Guellec and Maria Pluvia Zuniga
• Understanding Infrastructure: History, Heuristics, and Cyberinfrastructure Policy
  by Steven J. Jackson, Paul N. Edwards, Geoffrey C. Bowker, and Cory P. Knobel
• A Simple Method to Improve Life Sciences Patent Searches Using the Cyberinfrastructure at the National Institutes of Health
  by Kyle Jensen, Chen Jinan, and Fiona Murray
• Cyberinfrastructure and Innovation Policy
  by Brian Kahin
• Social and Behavioral Scientists Building Cyberinfrastructure
  by David W. Lightfoot
• Cyberinfrastructure, Institutions, and Sustainability
  by Christopher J. Mackie
• Knowledge Commons: The Case of the Biopharmaceutical Industry
  by Arti K. Rai
• Intellectual Property and Compatibility Standards: A Primer
  by Tim Simcoe
• ICT Standard Setting Today: A System Under Stress
  by Andrew Updegrove
• Dealing with Patent Fragmentation in ICT and Genetics: Patent Pools and Clearing Houses
  by Geertrui Van Overwalle, Esther van Zimmeren, Birgit Verbeure, and Gert Matthijs
• Seeking Open Infrastructure: Contrasting Open Standards, Open Source and Open Innovation
  by Joel West
• Implementing Openness: An International Institutional Perspective
  by Sacha Wunsch–Vincent, Taylor Reynolds, and Andrew Wyckoff