Medico-Legal Update
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue: 2

Open Source: An Innovation Paradigm

  • Author:
  • Vikrant Narayan Vasudeva
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 220 to 224

Doctoral Candidate, Indian Law Institute, Delhi, India

Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property, Tokyo, Japan

Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property & Competition Law, Munich, Germany

LL.M., The George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC, U.S.A.

PG.Dip. (Cyber Laws), Indian Law Institute, Delhi, India

LL.B. (Hons.), GGS Indraprastha University, Delhi, India

Online published on 17 November, 2012.

Abstract

Open source software represents a paradigm shift in the field of software development. It is a community based development model that invites programmers globally, to freely copy, share, and modify the software. Such a development infrastructure arguably assists in efficiently obtaining a more robust software at minimal cost. Given the success in the field of software, attempts have been made to apply the open source philosophy to the field of medicine as well. The contours of an open source development model, when adapted to the field of medicine may acquire a different hue given the uniqueness of each field, and therefore requires considered analysis.

Keywords

Open Source, Open Science, Open Innovation, Software, Bioinformatics, Genomics, Genetic engineering, Drug Discovery, Intellectual Property, License