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Contracting Over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge: Intellectual Property and Academic Publication / Joshua S. Gans, Fiona E. Murray, Scott Stern.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gans, Joshua S.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w19560.
- NBER working paper series no. w19560
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Contracting Over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2013.
- Summary:
- This paper provides a theoretical investigation of the tension over knowledge disclosure between firms and their scientific employees. While empirical research suggests that scientists exhibit a "taste for science," such open disclosures can limit a firm's competitive advantage or ability to profitably commercialize their innovations. To explore how this tension is resolved we focus on the strategic interaction between researchers and firms bargaining over whether (and how) knowledge will be disclosed. We evaluate four disclosure strategies: secrecy, patenting, open science (scientific publication) and patent-paper pairs providing insights into the determinants of the disclosure strategy of a firm. We find that patents and publications can be complementary instruments facilitating the disclosure of knowledge-providing predictions as to when stronger IP protection regimes might drive openness by firms.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- October 2013.
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