Collaboration Structure and Information Dilemmas in Biotechnology: Organizational Boundaries as Trust Production

摘要: Scientists who make breakthrough discoveries can receive above-normal returns to their intellectual capital, with depending on the degree of natural excludability, that is whether necessary techniques be learned through written repons or instead require hands-on experience discovering scientists those trained by them in laboratory. Privatizing discoveries, then, only requires selecting trusted others as collaborators,most often working same organization. Within organizational boundaries, incentives become aligned based repeat and future exchange, coupled third-party monitoring enforcement.We find high value capital paradoxically predicts both a larger number collaborators more network contained within Specifically, same-organization collaboration pairs are likely when high: highly productive ‘star” scientists, located top quality bioscience university departments, firm (higher ability capture returns). Collaboration across organization contrast, negatively related positively times star scientist has moved, Organizational boundaries act information envelopes: The valuable produced, its dissemination limited. In geographic areas where higher proportion coauthor come from organization, diffusion new retarded.