Toward open source nano: Arsenic removal and alternative models of technology transfer

摘要: In the wake of growing pressures to make scholarly knowledge commercially relevant via translation into intellectual property, various techno-scientific communities have mobilized create open access/open source experiments. These efforts are based on ideas and success free software, generally try exploit two salient features: increased openness circulation, distributed collective innovation. Transferring these from software science often involves unforeseen challenges, one which is that movements can be deemed, incorrectly, as heretical by university administrators technology transfer officers who valorize metrics such number patents filed granted, spin-off companies created, revenue generated. this paper, we discuss nascent foster an movement in nanotechnology provide illustrative case arsenic removal invention. We challenges facing nano include making a widely accessible associated politics metrics.