Open Source Model Improves Quality of Scientific Problem Solving

by kate | December 9, 2006 at 01:40 pm

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I should get in touch with Karim Lakhani with the concept of building giant robotic whales to cruise around the oceans picking up all those tiny bits of plastic that are clogging everything up. They'd have baleines just like the grid on a Cadillac.

an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, finds that by systematically "broadcasting" science problems to others outside one's specialization, readier, sometimes more elegant solutions to those problems can be found.