Britain’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) had a conference last week on open innovation in culture and science.  I got to set the stage but the other talks… were far more interesting. My colleague Jennifer Jenkins led off the panel on Open Innovation in the Creative Industries — in which she gave a fascinating description of the ways in which creators in publishing, music and film are using Creative Commons licenses as part of their business plans.  (The responses to her talk are hilarious.)  John Wilbanks was inspiring as he described what Science Commons has done — and what it could do.  And the panel on Open Innovation and science which featured Nobel Laureate, Sir John Sulston, is well worth watching.