If you want to change a system, understand its motivations.
The article supplies a half-truth in this regard:
"If you're a scientist applying for a job or a grant, the biggest factor determining your success will be your record of scientific publications."
That's true, but the larger story is "IP"
A friend of mine has spent the past 8 years barely scraping by earning a PhD in Chemistry and working as a post-doc.
His motivation for the investment of time and energy is entrepreneurial: he plans to start a business using his discoveries.
Protecting his business interests means patents, means a closed system, means secrecy until it comes time to publish and he can be assured prior art status.
Beyond that an enormous part of Universities funding comes from IP royalties.
The article supplies a half-truth in this regard:
"If you're a scientist applying for a job or a grant, the biggest factor determining your success will be your record of scientific publications."
That's true, but the larger story is "IP"
A friend of mine has spent the past 8 years barely scraping by earning a PhD in Chemistry and working as a post-doc.
His motivation for the investment of time and energy is entrepreneurial: he plans to start a business using his discoveries.
Protecting his business interests means patents, means a closed system, means secrecy until it comes time to publish and he can be assured prior art status.
Beyond that an enormous part of Universities funding comes from IP royalties.