My daily selection of the most interesting news on the internets:
- Joint PhDs becoming popular – A major two-year project undertaken by the European University Association with the support of the European Commission and involving 33 universities in 20 European countries has found that collaborative doctoral programmes are growing in importance in Europe and offering real value to universities and industry.
- Open Access publication can save the Netherlands up to 133 million euros – If every scientific and scholarly article were publicly available, it would save the Netherlands EUR 133 million a year. That figure is given by the Australian economist Prof. John Houghton in a study that SURFfoundation presented today to the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.
- Climate Change and Intellectual Property – NYTimes.com – Besides cash, some suggest that any accord must ensure developing countries have access to the proprietary mitigation technologies — that is, the intellectual property that companies in the developed world are creating to fight global warming — at bargain basement prices. But several high-tech multinational companies, along with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, recently set up the Innovation, Development and Employment Alliance to counter efforts to roll back patent protection on climate technology.
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