maintain discretion over their research agenda and allow others to build on their discoveries. This paper examines the … granting of control rights to researchers. Within this framework, openness of upstream research does not simply encourage … higher levels of downstream exploitation. It also raises the incentives for additional upstream research by encouraging the …

Research on intellectual property has focused on formal legally recorded rights that we call deeded, most often …

This paper investigates if research findings change political leaders' beliefs and cause policy change. Collaborating … their policies. We use experiments to measure mayors' demand for research information and their response to learning … research findings. In one experiment, we find that mayors and other municipal officials are willing to pay to learn the results …

star scientists and firms have a large positive impact on firms'" research productivity, increasing the average firm …" in the firm's labs. As a result, star collaborations in Japan are less localized around their research" universities so …

relevance of economics research. To study this question, we exploit the progressive geographic expansion of the U.S. Census … Bureau's Federal Statistical Research Data Centers (FSRDCs). FSRDCs boost data diffusion, help empirical researchers publish …