Crowdsourcing - a collabo ... …

Crowdsourcing is an emerging technology where innovation and production are sourced out to the public through an open … call. At the center of crowdsourcing is a resource allocation problem: there is an abundance of workers but a scarcity of …

To what extent does "false science" impact the rate and direction of scientific change? We examine the impact of more …

income, university research funding from science philanthropy is $7Billion a year. This major contribution to U.S. scientific … in this paper demonstrates that science philanthropy provides almost 30% of the annual research funds of those in leading … universities. And yet science philanthropy has been largely overshadowed by the massive rise of Federal research funding and, to a …

Getting science policy right is a core objective of government that bears on scientific advance, economic growth …, health, and longevity. Yet the process of science is changing. As science advances and knowledge accumulates, ensuing … cycle and (ii) from solo researchers toward teams. This paper summarizes the evidence that science has evolved - and …