Table 3.

 Different modes of involvement of private actors in the organisation of the the science commons (references in the footnotes to the case studies in the text)

	Examples of the life science commons discussed in the paper	Mode of involvement of the private sector
Information sharing in genomics (human genetics)	GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ SNP Consortium cDNA sequencing funded by Merck	Publicly funded information clearing house, information provided by public, non‐profit and for profit entities Consortium of public and private partners Private company
Information sharing in non‐human genetics	Yeast sequencing programme International Rice Research Centre‐UC Davis exclusive licence World Fish Centre – GenoMar exclusive Licence	Consortium of public and private partners Public‐private partnership Public‐private partnership
Information sharing non‐human biological organisms	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)	Publicly funded information clearing house, information provided by public, non‐profit, and for profit entities

Source: authors.