SCHEDULE 13G

Amendment No. 3
Alkermes Incorporated
Common Stock
Cusip #01642T108


Cusip #01642T108
Item 1:	Reporting Person - FMR Corp.
Item 4:	Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Item 5:	9,769
Item 6:	0
Item 7:	1,129,384
Item 8:	0
Item 9:	1,129,384
Item 11:	1.748%
Item 12:	    HC


Cusip #01642T108
Item 1:	Reporting Person - Edward C. Johnson 3d
Item 4:	United States of America
Item 5:	0
Item 6:	0
Item 7:	1,129,384
Item 8:	0
Item 9:	1,129,384
Item 11:	1.748%
Item 12:	IN


Cusip #01642T108
Item 1:	Reporting Person - Abigail P. Johnson
Item 4:	United States of America
Item 5:	0
Item 6:	0
Item 7:	1,129,384
Item 8:	0
Item 9:	1,129,384
Item 11:	1.748%
Item 12:	    IN



	SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN
STATEMENTS
	FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)




Item 1(a).	Name of Issuer:

		Alkermes Incorporated

Item 1(b).	Name of Issuer's Principal Executive Offices:

		64 Sidney Street
		Cambridge, MA  02139

Item 2(a).	Name of Person Filing:

		FMR Corp.

Item 2(b).	Address or Principal Business Office or, if None,
Residence:

		82 Devonshire Street, Boston,
Massachusetts  02109

Item 2(c).	Citizenship:

		Not applicable

Item 2(d).	Title of Class of Securities:

		Common Stock

Item 2(e).	CUSIP Number:

		01642T108

Item 3.	This statement is filed pursuant to Rule 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
and the person filing, FMR Corp., is a parent holding company
in accordance with Section 240.13d-1(b)(ii)(G).  (Note:  See
Item 7).

Item 4.	Ownership

	(a)	Amount Beneficially Owned:	1,129,384

	(b)	Percent of Class:	1.748%

	(c)	Number of shares as to which such
person has:

	(i)	sole power to vote or to direct
the vote:	9,769

	(ii)	shared power to vote or to
direct the vote:	0

	(iii)	sole power to dispose or to
direct the disposition of:	1,129,384

	(iv)	shared power to dispose or to
direct the disposition of:	0



Item 5.	Ownership of Five Percent or Less of a Class.

	If this statement is being filed to report the fact that as of the
date hereof, the reporting person has ceased to be the
beneficial owner of more than five percent of the class of
securities, check the following (X).

Item 6.	Ownership of More than Five Percent on Behalf of Another
Person.

	Not applicable

Item 7.	Identification and Classification of the Subsidiary Which
Acquired the Security Being Reported on By the Parent
Holding Company.

	See attached Exhibit(s) A, B.

Item 8.	Identification and Classification of Members of
the Group.

	Not Applicable. See attached Exhibit A.

Item 9.	Notice of Dissolution of Group.

	Not applicable.

Item 10.	Certification.

	Inasmuch as the reporting persons are no longer the beneficial
owners of more than five percent of the number of shares
outstanding, the reporting persons have no further reporting
obligation under Section 13(d) of the Securities and Exchange
Commission thereunder, and the reporting persons have no
obligation to amend this Statement if any material change
occurs in the facts set forth herein.

Signature

	After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and
belief, I certify that the information set forth in this Schedule
13G in connection with FMR Corp.'s beneficial ownership of
the Common Stock of Alkermes Incorporated at July 31, 2002
is true, complete and correct.

August 12, 2002
Date

/s/ Stuart Fross
Signature

Stuart Fross
Duly authorized under Power of Attorney
dated July 30, 2002.



	SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN
STATEMENTS
	FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)



	Pursuant to the instructions in Item 7 of Schedule
13G, Fidelity Management & Research Company
("Fidelity"), 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts
02109, a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR Corp. and an
investment adviser registered under Section 203 of the
Investment Advisers Act of 1940, is the beneficial owner of
1,119,615 shares or 1.733% of the Common Stock
outstanding of Alkermes Incorporated  ("the Company") as a
result of acting as investment adviser to various investment
companies registered under Section 8 of the Investment
Company Act of 1940. The number of shares of Common
Stock of Alkermes Incorporated owned by the investment
companies at July 31, 2002 included 475,275 shares of
Common Stock resulting from the assumed conversion of
$32,200,000 principal amount of ALKERMES INC CV
3.75% 2/15/07 (14.7601 shares of Common Stock for each
$1,000 principal amount of debenture).

	Edward C. Johnson 3d, FMR Corp., through its
control of Fidelity, and the funds each has sole power to
dispose of the 1,119,615 shares owned by the Funds.

	Neither FMR Corp. nor Edward C. Johnson 3d,
Chairman of FMR Corp., has the sole power to vote or direct
the voting of the shares owned directly by the Fidelity Funds,
which power resides with the Funds' Boards of Trustees.
Fidelity carries out the voting of the shares under written
guidelines established by the Funds' Boards of Trustees.

	Fidelity Management Trust Company, 82 Devonshire
Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of FMR Corp. and a bank as defined in Section
3(a)(6) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, is the
beneficial owner of  9,500 shares or 0.015% of the Common
Stock outstanding of the Company as a result of its serving as
investment manager of the institutional account(s).

	Edward C. Johnson 3d and FMR Corp., through its
control of Fidelity Management Trust Company, each has
sole dispositive power over 9,500 shares and sole power to
vote or to direct the voting of 9,500 shares of Common Stock
owned by the institutional account(s) as reported above.

	Geode Capital Management, LLC, 53 State Street,
Boston, Massachusetts 02109, a Delaware limited liability
company ("Geode LLC"), is the beneficial owner of 269
shares or 0.000% of the outstanding common stock of the
Company.  Geode LLC is wholly-owned by Fidelity
Investors III Limited Partnership ("FILP III"), a Delaware
limited partnership.  Geode LLC is an investment adviser
registered under Section 203 of the Investment Advisers Act
of 1940. Fidelity Investors Management, LLC ("FIML"), a
Delaware limited liability company, is the general partner
and investment manager of FILP III, and is an investment
manager registered under Section 203 of the Investment
Advisers Act of 1940. The managers of Geode LLC, the
members of FIML and the limited partners of FILP III are
certain shareholders and employees of FMR Corp.



	Members of the Edward C. Johnson 3d family are the
predominant owners of Class B shares of common stock of
FMR Corp., representing approximately 49% of the voting
power of FMR Corp.  Mr. Johnson 3d owns 12.0% and
Abigail Johnson owns 24.5% of the aggregate outstanding
voting stock of FMR Corp.  Mr. Johnson 3d is Chairman of
FMR Corp. and Abigail P. Johnson is a Director of FMR
Corp.  The Johnson family group and all other Class B
shareholders have entered into a shareholders' voting
agreement under which all Class B shares will be voted in
accordance with the majority vote of Class B shares.
Accordingly, through their ownership of voting common
stock and the execution of the shareholders' voting
agreement, members of the Johnson family may be deemed,
under the Investment Company Act of 1940, to form a
controlling group with respect to FMR Corp.




	SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN
STATEMENTS
	FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
	RULE 13d-1(f)(1)  AGREEMENT

	The undersigned persons, on August 12, 2002, agree
and consent to the joint filing on their behalf of this Schedule
13G in connection with their beneficial ownership of the
Common Stock of Alkermes Incorporated at July 31, 2002.

	FMR Corp.

	By /s/ Stuart Fross
	Stuart Fross
	Duly authorized under Power of Attorney
	dated July 30, 2002.



	Edward C. Johnson 3d

	By /s/ Stuart Fross
	Stuart Fross
	Duly authorized under Power of Attorney
	dated July 30, 2002.


	Abigail P. Johnson

	By /s/ Stuart Fross
	Stuart Fross
	Duly authorized under Power of Attorney
	dated July 30, 2002.


	Fidelity Management & Research Company

	By /s/ Stuart Fross
	Stuart Fross
	Duly authorized under Power of Attorney
	dated July 30, 2002.