Economic interactions between scientists and commercial interests and their impact on scientific knowledge dissemination: a theoretical and empirical investigation

科学家与商业利益之间的经济互动及其对科学知识传播的影响：理论和实证研究

• 批准号: DP1095010
• 负责人: A/Prof Kwanghui Lim
• 金额: $ 42.84万
• 依托单位: The University of Melbourne
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2010-01-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP1095010
• 关键词: Economic; interactions; between; scientists; commercial

In recent decades, the debate between scientists, policy-makers and businesses on the usefulness of scientific discoveries has been intense. Despite its clear economic implications, there has been very little economic modeling of the interactions between scientists and firms on key choices such as publication rights and licensing agreements associated with patent protection. These choices impact on the diffusion of scientific knowledge and their productive applications. This project will examine those interactions both at a theoretical and empirical level with the goal of generating insights into whether and how public policy makers should regulate or leave unchecked the commercialisation of science.

近几十年来，科学家、政策制定者和企业之间就科学发现的有用性展开了激烈的辩论。尽管其明显的经济影响，很少有经济模型的科学家和公司之间的互动的关键选择，如出版权和与专利保护相关的许可协议。这些选择影响到科学知识的传播及其生产性应用。该项目将在理论和实证层面上研究这些相互作用，目的是深入了解公共政策制定者是否以及如何监管或不加检查地对待科学商业化。