"Aarhus University’s new initiative, called Open Science, does not allow either the university or the companies involved to patent any discoveries made during the research process and, at the end, the results are disclosed to everyone – even other firms – in what it calls a “patent-free playground”."

It is clear that large tech corporations concentrate wealth. Whether that's a problem, I would like to know!

"As an essential first step, we need to turn peer review into a rewarding activity. Incentives matter, so it is critical that tenure and grant committees consider researchers for their expertise as reviewers (amongst other things), not just as publication machines. With the proper incentives we will see a renewed focus on peer review, which will get research published and available to the world faster. Giving reviewers a way to showcase their contributions is the idea behind Publons, for example, (of which I am CEO and co-founder) and which was recently acquired by Clarivate Analytics."