Encouraging innovation by means of IT-based cooperation

Encouraging innovation by means of IT-based cooperation Working paper

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Encouraging innovation

Innovation is central to the scientific endeavor, and yet the current system of funding in the United States discourages innovation, especially in the young. Subtle alterations to the funding system, guided in part by the success of the European Research Council, could have major effects on encouraging innovation.

The PossibiliTy of encouraging innovaTion and comPeTiTion

Encouraging Cooperation in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks

We present Catch, a protocol that encourages cooperation in multi-hop wireless networks comprised of autonomous nodes. While these nodes depend on each other to relay packets, scarce bandwidth and energy resources may motivate some nodes to cheat and avoid packet forwarding. Catch employs a novel technique based on anonymous messages to significantly increase the difficulty of cheating with imp...

Encouraging Cooperation in Sharing Supermodular Costs

Consider a situation where a group of agents wishes to share the costs of their joint actions, and needs to determine how to distribute the costs amongst themselves in a fair manner. For example, a set of agents may agree to process their jobs together on a machine, and share the optimal cost of scheduling these jobs. This kind of situation can be modelled naturally as a cooperative game. In th...