Governing Medical Knowledge Commons
Insights into collaborative frameworks for health sciences
Katherine J Strandburg editor Brett M Frischmann editor Michael J Madison editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:19th Oct '17
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This book explores the role of knowledge commons in medical innovation, presenting case studies that highlight their effectiveness in healthcare settings.
This book presents a collection of fifteen new case studies that showcase successful knowledge and information sharing commons institutions specifically tailored for medical and health sciences innovation. Governing Medical Knowledge Commons serves as a vital resource for understanding how these collaborative frameworks can enhance the development and dissemination of medical knowledge. It emphasizes the importance of evidence-based policymaking in fostering innovation in the healthcare sector.
The editors put forth three significant claims in Governing Medical Knowledge Commons. Firstly, they argue that evidence is crucial for effective innovation policymaking. Secondly, they illustrate how self-governing knowledge commons can facilitate innovation without relying on traditional intellectual property rights. Lastly, they assert that knowledge commons can thrive in the critical domains of medicine and health. By adapting Elinor Ostrom's pioneering research on natural resource commons, the editors provide a structured approach to understanding the success of these knowledge-sharing frameworks.
Through the lens of the knowledge commons framework, Governing Medical Knowledge Commons offers a practical introduction to the principles and applications of knowledge sharing in healthcare. Readers will find a synthesis of conclusions and lessons drawn from the case studies, which highlight the roles of researchers, medical professionals, and patients in generating, improving, and sharing innovations. The book is also available as Open Access, making it accessible to a broader audience interested in the intersection of healthcare and collaborative knowledge management.
'Governing Medical Knowledge Commons is a very interesting and useful book, and I am delighted to say so! Innovation development is increasingly becoming open and distributed over time. Whether and how the fruits of this openly revealed activity can be collected and efficiently utilized as a commons is a very important next question. Strandburg, Frischmann, and Madison greatly help further progress via this collection of very thoughtful studies on pioneering medical commons models and trials.' Eric von Hippel, T. Wilson Professor in Management, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
'This volume builds on Elinor Ostrom's research on the commons. Understanding the institutions that promote cooperation is critical to good governance and improving social welfare. The authors in this volume provide case studies of governance in the medical commons. The insights are pathbreaking and will lead to better policies for medical research. Moreover, the insights here will be synergistic to research in other areas of governance of commons.' Lee J. Alston, Director of the Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University, Bloomington
'This book makes significant advances on a decades-long research agenda through which Elinor Ostrom and other commons researchers uncovered the reasons behind the often surprising success of community-based management of natural resources. Contributors to this volume demonstrate that their concept of 'commons as a mode of governance' goes well beyond standard protections for intellectual property rights to integrate collaborative practice into the very heart of innovation in medical research and treatment. Case studies detail several impressive and diverse examples of this powerful synthesis of research and practice, and the editors conclude with practical lessons for how we might achieve comparable levels of improvement in other areas.' Michael D. McGinnis, Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, and former Director, Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University, Bloomington
ISBN: 9781107146877
Dimensions: 237mm x 158mm x 30mm
Weight: 780g
436 pages