Whose site is this?
This is the personal website of Rufus Pollock.
Contact
I get a lot of email but I do try to read it all. If you’d like to contact me drop a line to comments [at] rufuspollock [dot] org.
Bio (last updated: 2009-12-05)
Warning: like everyone else I only get around to updating this kind of information irregularly. Thus if the date above is more than six months ago you should assume that the following is no longer entirely accurate!
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One sentence: Dr. Rufus Pollock is a Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation which he co-founded in 2004 and the Mead Fellow in Economics at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.
One paragraph: Dr. Rufus Pollock is a Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation which he co-founded in 2004 and the Mead Fellow in Economics at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. He has worked extensively, as a scholar, coder and activist on the technological, social and legal issues surrounding access and sharing of knowledge.
Full: Dr. Rufus Pollock is a Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation which he co-founded in 2004 and the Mead Fellow in Economics at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. He has worked extensively, as a scholar, coder and activist on the technological, social and legal issues surrounding access and sharing of knowledge.
As an economist his work has focused on the theory and empirics of innovation and their implications for intellectual property policy. He is author of The Value of the Public Domain published by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), co-author of a report on Models of Public Sector Information Provision via Trading Funds written for the UK government, and the lead economist of a study on the “Economic and Social Impact of the Public Domain” funded by the European Commission.
In addition to his scholarly work, in 2004 he co-founded the Open Knowledge Foundation a not-for-profit organization which works to promote open knowledge — any kind of information from sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata, that can be freely used, reused, and redistributed. He continues to serve on the Board of the Foundation and to be actively involved with its projects.
Other activities include: co-founding the Open Rights Group in 2005 and serving on its board until 2008; serving as director of the UK branch of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure from 2004-2006, policy adviser to Creative Commons UK from 2003-2007.
Research Area in Economics
At present my research focuses on innovation and IP, with particular attention to open models of innovation. Other areas of interest include two-sided/platform industries (e.g. Operating Systems, Search Engines), and research on happiness and well-being.
More information about his economics research can be found in the economics section.
Open Knowledge Foundation
- The Open Knowledge Foundation and associated projects such as:
- What is To be Done
