Of Mice and Academics: Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation

By Julian Kolev, Fiona E. Murray, Scott Stern, Philippe Aghion, Mathias Dewatripont. 2009

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This paper argues that openness, in the form of lower costs of access to existing research, can enhance both early- and late- stage innovation by enabling greater exploration of new research lines,...

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Statistics and Probability

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The De-democratization of AI: Deep Learning and the Compute Divide in Artificial Intelligence Research (2020, methodology): “This model is aligned with prior research (Murray et al., 2016; Nagaraj, Shears, & de Vaan, 2020; Teodoridis, 2018) that acknowledges the importance of materials and specialized equipment in producing new knowledge.”
Climbing atop the Shoulders of Giants: The Impact of Institutions on Cumulative Research (2011, unknown): “Powell 1998; Lori Rosenkopf and Michael L. Tushman 1998), and the role of science in technological search (Olav Sorenson and Lee Fleming 2004). 4 See Stern (2004), Raymond Cypess (2003), and OECD (2001) for detailed discussion of the function, history, and policy analysis of BRCs.”
The open innovation research landscape: established perspectives and emerging themes across different levels of analysis (2016, unknown): “…communities, crowds or networks of individuals (including users, citizens, scientists, etc.) (cf. von Hippel 2005; Jeppesen and Frederiksen 2006; Fabrizio and Di Minin 2008; Murray et al. 2009; Poetz and Schreier 2012; Perkmann et al. 2013; Franzoni and Sauermann 2014; Levine and Prietula 2014).”
Multiple competitions in higher education: a conceptual approach (2019, background): “Common sharing of knowledge and common standards among academics are not antithetical to competition, but rather its prerequisite (with regard to current research in the life sciences see Murray et al., 2016).”
Open Platform Strategies and Innovation: Granting Access vs. Devolving Control (2010, background): “The comparisons are starker in one-time policy shock studies, where estimation of the counterfactual relies heavily on a comparison group of non-switchers (e.g., Murray et al. 2009).”
Delay and secrecy: does industry sponsorship jeopardize disclosure of academic research? (2015, background): “In recent work, Murray et al. (2009) found that greater access to ideas and materials in academic research not only increased incentives for direct follow-on research, but led to an increase in the diversity of research by increasing the number of experimental research lines.”
Frontier Knowledge and Scientific Production: Evidence from the Collapse of International Science (2018, background): “Intellectual property rights increase the cost of using prior knowledge in follow-on research (Scotchmer, 1991; Williams, 2013; Murray et al., 2009; Galasso and Schankerman, 2015; Biasi and Moser, 2015).”