Specific and general information sharing among competing academic researchers

Research Policy

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 465-475

  Haeussler, Carolin ^a   Jiang, Lin ^b   Thursby, Jerry ^c   Thursby, Marie ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Information sharing; Knowledge diffusion; Misappropriation; Open science; Scientific competition

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; CRIME; RESEARCH;

INFORMATION SHARING; KNOWLEDGE DIFFUSION; MISAPPROPRIATION; OPEN SCIENCE; SCIENTIFIC COMPETITION;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84893648439     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2013.08.017     Document Type: Article

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