Fantastic! Later this month, MIT will celebrate reaching its goal of having written portions, at least, of 1,800 courses - including materials from about 90 percent of its professors - available free on its Web site. Read more...

Donal Lang, Principal at Don Lang Design, asked this question on LinkedIn;
Creative people generate many ideas. It takes effort and commitment to convince funders and often 5 years to get a product to market, so we're selective about what we put our lives into. What do YOU do with all the rest of your innovations? Do you think there's a justification for an 'Open Access' system that puts out unused ideas for anyone to exploit? Would you use it? What recognition would you want?

This was my answer; Most of the ideas for all inventors stays in the head and die there. I for sure believe that there is a demand for "open spaces" where IP, good ideas, talent and capital can meet. In fat one of the companies I have a responsibility in are developing av method and scheme as we speak. Seed Forum Norway have been taking an international initiate that can easily can be converted from a physical marketplace into an "ideagora" or a knowledge market. You can in addition find good existing examples as yet2.com and innocentive.com, that are sites that I think will have a great future. One ot the most interesting books I have been listening to so fare this year is Wikinomics (Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams), that are based on results from several research projects where new ways of sharing and collaboration is central. I will for sure try to interact with as much persons and brilliant minds as possible in my subsequent projects.

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When I was listening to the Audible version of Wikinomics I learned about OpenCourseWare and was jogging home to discover more. Whoo! What a course of knowledge his is at your fingertips. This is something that I hope all Universities and also Business Schools around the world can learn from. The competitive world is thoroughly flat and sharing is a valuable asset now and icreasingly in the future. Please look into this fountain of involvement and free sharing...