Volume 12, Number 6 — 4 June 2007

Preface
by Brian Kahin and Steven J. Jackson

Open Science Grid: Building and Sustaining General Cyberinfrastructure Using a Collaborative Approach
by Paul Avery

What’s Wrong with the Patent System? Fuzzy Boundaries and the Patent Tax
by James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer
Comments by James Toupin, General Counsel, USPTO

Bringing Peer Review to Patents
by Mario Biagioli

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

Conference Keynote Addresses
    Arden L. Bement, Jr., National Science Foundation
    Congressman David Wu

Conference Web site: http://cyberinfrastructure.us/

 

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