Intellectual Property in Synthetic Biology - Enacted Issues of Sharing and Owning |
2.1 The Synthetic Biology Sharing Regime
The open source approach in synthetic biology is contested and advocated from a variety of actors articulating different interests and values. But they are all in some way connected to the overall controversy over intellectual property in synthetic biology. The 'Sharing regime issue network' is derived from a source set consisting of actors which can roughly be categorized into five categories consisting of;
These categories are bound by their normative approach to open source systems. In trying to disclose an assemblage of actors jointly implicated in this issue we turn to the co-link analysis. The co-link network is produced by inputting the sharing regime source set into Issue Crawler.
- Do It Youself (DIY)/Garage biology networks
- Academic expert and educational networks
- International interdisciplinary networks and summits
- Industry actors using open source
- Observers (scienec news medias)
These categories are bound by their normative approach to open source systems. In trying to disclose an assemblage of actors jointly implicated in this issue we turn to the co-link analysis. The co-link network is produced by inputting the sharing regime source set into Issue Crawler.
The Sharing regime source set;
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Characteristics of actors;
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2.1.1 Sharing regime co-link network:
2.1.2 Who is in the network and who is linking to who?
The most central actors (recieving most links from network) are 'partsregistry.org', 'creativecommons.org' and 'synbioproject.org'. These three actors are part of a Sharing webwork of organisations which shows high internal and external linking cultures. The ".com" suffixes in the network are in general not representing commercial interests but social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and Vimeo).
The actors in the five different categories outlined above differs in structure but do more or less all have domains with the ".org" suffix. From the URLs or hosts in network (amount = 100) we can see that the network mainly consists of these domains:
- .org = 55
- .com = 21
- .gov = 6
- .edu = 6
What we also can see in this network is that the actors have an educational affinity with some close relations to different universities in the US and Europe.