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According to proponents of ‘the tragedy of the Anticommons’ hypothesis, resources with fragmented ownership are often under-exploited. This paper describes how approximately 100 academic biologists tried to trade their data for corporate support of a worldwide Depository for human mutations data. Although the group obtained a $ 2.3 million offer, it became deadlocked in trying to respond. Analysis...
We study the production of knowledge when many researchers or inventors are involved, in a setting where tensions can arise between individual public and private contributions. We first show that, without some kind of coordination, production of the public knowledge good (science or research software or database) is sub-optimal. Then we demonstrate that if ‘lead’ researchers are able to establish...
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