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"How much" v "open acces"

The recent sale of spectrum, where AT&T admitted that they paid much more to avoid open access (aah, makes one proud to be an AT&T subscriber) leads the Silicon Valley Insider to ask how much more the US government could have gotten if they had removed the open access requirement. . would the bidding have grown even more if the spectrum remained proprietary?

Given the recent discussion on Open Innovation (see this review paper), what is the proper way to "weigh" open access v financial gain? Not a dissimilar question to how to discuss benefits from access to research v proprietary access to research.

posted by Dana Bostrom @ 21:43