Of Mice and Academics: Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation
This paper argues that openness, by lowering costs to access existing research, can enhance both early and late stage innovation through greater exploration of novel research directions. We examine a natural experiment in openness: late-1990s NIH agreements that reduced academics' access costs...
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| Language: | en_US |
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American Economic Association
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109127 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7570-8044 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2328-3229 |