2013 WORKSHOP

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When: 8-10 November, 2013

Where: Global Learning Center in Technology Square Atlanta, Georgia

Program and Participants

8:00 am	Breakfast
8:45 am	Welcome and Introduction, Joshua Gans
9:00 am	Session 1: Scientific Stars
	Ajay Agrawal, John McHale, Alex Oettl, “Why Stars Matter”
	Mark McCabe and Zakaria Babutsidze, “Superstar Incentives Collaborations, awards and their impact on the development of economic science”
	Sen Chai, “Academic Conferences as a Collaboration Fostering Vehicle”
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Session 2: Recognition
	Sadao Nagaoka, “Author recognitions in scientific research: evidence from scientists survey in the US and Japan”
	Susan Feng Lu, Ginger Zhe Jin, Ben Jones, Brian Uzzi, “The Reverse Matthew Effect: Collaboration and Consequence in Scientific Misconduct”
12:00	Lunch and Talk on Contribution Science by Grant Miller, Zooniverse
1:30 pm	Session 3: Attribution
	Joshua Gans and Fiona Murray, “Markets for Scientific Attribution”
	Chiara Franzoni and Henry Sauermann, “Participation Dynamics in crowd-based knowledge production: The scope and sustainability of interest-based motivation”
2:30 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Session 4: PhD Contributions
	Min Ren, “Standardization and Knowledge Accumulation”
	Robert Vesco, “The Impact of Public vs. Private Peer Recognition on Feedback to Innovators”
	Florenta Teodoridis, “Generalists, Specialists and the Direction of Scientific Research: Evidence from Kinect”
	Discussants: Alberto Galasso, Christian Catalini, and Scott Stern

 

 

 

2012 WORKSHOP

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When: October 25th, 2012

Where: NBER hosted at Le Méridien Cambridge-MIT, 20 Sidney Street, Cambridge, MA

Official Program

About

As part of the Program on the Economics of Knowledge Contribution and Distribution, we will hold annual workshops to bring together researchers on issues related to the contribution economy. The first of these workshops was held in Cambridge, MA, in October. It had three main sessions focussing on Open Access Publications, Open Science and Collaboration and Selection in Science. Researchers from around the world participated. There was also a panel discussion on open access to research publications and data to identify outstanding questions for exploration in this area.

Program and Participants

8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Welcome and Introduction, Joshua Gans
8:45 am	Session 1: Open Access Publications
	Mark McCabe, University of Michigan Christopher Snyder, Dartmouth College and NBER The Economics of Open-Access Journals
	Frank Mueller-Langer, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law Richard Watt, University of Canterbury Optimal Pricing and Quality of Academic Journals and the Ambiguous Welfare Effects of Forced Open Access: A Two-Sided Model
	Timo Boppart, University of Zurich Kevin E. Staub, University of Zurich Online Accessibility of Academic Articles and the Diversity Of Economics
	Giovanni B. Ramello, University of Eastern Piedmont Open Access Journals & Academics’ Behaviors (Slides)
	Discussant:  Christian Zimmermann, University of Connecticut
10:45 am	Break
11:15 am	Session 2: Open Science
	Lin Jiang, University of Missouri Jerry Thursby, Georgia Institute of Technology Marie Thursby, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER Scientific Disclosure and the Faces of Competition
	Chiara Franzoni, Politecnico di Milano Henry Sauermann, Georgia Institute of Technology Crowd Science:The Organization of Scientific Research in Open Collaborative Projects
	Discussant:  Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Session 3: Collaboration and Selection in Science
	Kevin Boudreau, London Business School Eva C. Guinan, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Karim Lakhani, Harvard University Christoph Riedl, Harvard University A Bias for “Normal” Science? Field Evidence from Medical Research Funding Proposal Evaluations
	Ajay K. Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto Florenta Teodoridis, University of TorontoDoes Knowledge Accumulation Increase the Returns to Collaboration? Evidence from the Collapse of the Soviet Union
	Paul David, Stanford University Cooperation, Creativity and Closure in Scientific Research Networks: Modeling the Simpler Dynamics of Invisible Colleges
	Discussant:  Danielle Li, Northwestern University
3:30 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Panel Session
	How funders and journals are dealing with practical problems and challenges associated with access to data, materials and methods developed by the scientific communityModerator:  Fiona Murray, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPanelists:  Kent Anderson, Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery andJulia L. Greenstein, JDRF
5:30 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Conference Dinner – Le Méridien Cambridge-MIT