Inside the Anticommons: Academic scientists' struggle to build a commercially self-supporting human mutations database, 1999-2001

Research Policy

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 839-853

  Maurer, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticommons; Biotechnology; Databases; Research consortia; Technology transfer

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; EDUCATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STUDENTS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

ANTICOMMONS; HUMAN MUTATIONS DATA; INFORMATION BURDEN; RESEARCH CONSORTIA;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745228390     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2006.04.008     Document Type: Article

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