Some may prefer to expend effort trying to rubbish a rival approach, whose open source tech could, if it stands up to scrutiny and operational performance, reduce the commercial value of proprietary and patented mechanisms also intended to grease the wheels of decentralized networks — for a fee.
As these public resources accumulate data, the value of proprietary databases will eventually erode, but in the meantime clinicians will be ordering and health plans will be paying for many genetic results that cannot be accurately interpreted based on publicly available information.
It was with great interest that I read David Zorn's recent piece about assessing the value proposition of proprietary, or for-profit colleges.
But then what happens to them is, as the dominant architecture becomes open and modular, the value of their proprietary design becomes commoditized itself.
In their case, one would ideally capture their value by means of proprietary technologies, first-mover advantage, or other commercial methods.
The problem, he said, is that because of the increasingly global nature of business competition, the value of a major proprietary breakthrough or invention erodes in value much more quickly than in the mid-20th Century.
Salha says that postdocs are kept separate from the mainstream drug-discovery program of the company and are free to publish and present their work once it has been cleared of proprietary value.
Moreover, scientists are often secretive about preliminary data in fear of being wrong or being ?scooped.? This might be particularly true in today?s climate, which emphasizes the proprietary value of patents and intellectual property.
Steven Schonfeld Trading A drop in the value of Wall Street trading firms helped knock the founder of proprietary firm, Schonfeld Group, off the list, after his debut, valued then at $1 billion, last year.
One successful measurement was performed per eye, along the vertical meridian, in Adobe Photoshop (version 7) using the measurement tool, resulting in a cup and a disc diameter value in proprietary units, the division of the two values producing the VCDR which was recorded to the nearest 0.05.
"If they were unable to come up with significant sources of proprietary information, they should probably think about dropping coverage, since they wouldn't have anything of value to give our clients," he said in an interview.
