"Tis the season to be jolly", allegedly, but it's the conscientious objectors of popular fiction who sum up the reality of this most commercialised of religious festivals.
What makes Google unique is the extent to which it has, oblivious to the consequences, made a business out of commercialising the organisation of knowledge.
Recently, the DETERMINE TB-LAM Ag test ("LAM test" Alere, Waltham, MA, USA) was commercialised for point-of-care TB diagnosis.
"I don't believe we should be commercialising parts of our bodies," said Professor Anthony Warrens, Dean of Education at The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, adding that "the most disadvantaged" people would end up selling parts of their bodies, potentially with disregard for the risks involved.
Applied NanoMaterials, a New York-based firm that is commercialising some of his work, has launched a lubricant called NanoLub, which is made of nested spheres of tungsten and sulphur atoms.
But although Radio Three's raison d'être has been eroded by the existence of Classic FM, a commercial service, it has many vocal supporters.Since the scope for saving on services is limited, interest is focusing on selling off or otherwise commercialising bits of the BBC.
By creating programs in which scientists are taken out of the lab and given more opportunities for networking--workshops, conferences, networking events, for example--MaRS is hoping to overcome one of the main challenges of commercialising academic research: cultivating a sense of entrepreneurship among academics.
Given the role of internet search engines in "commercialising secondary exploitation of obtained information" and the need to enforce EU competition rules, MEPs also call on the Commission "to consider proposals with the aim of unbundling search engines from other commercial services" in the long run.
The MARS process has recently been commercialised for recovery of cresols from aqueous process streams.
Her defiantly anti-fashion look has become one of the most copied and coveted – not to mention commercialised – aesthetics of modern fashion.
