Personal Statement
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My research agenda examines the conflicts and compromises shaping the boundary between academic science and the commercial world -especially those wrought by substantial growth in the enforcement of intellectual property (IP) rights over basic scientific research. In particular, while the expansion of IP rights provides many opportunities for science-based firms and universities to commercialize science, it may also transform the broader scientific community in unexpected ways, with surprising implications for the long-run accumulation of scientific knowledge. Understanding these tensions is of great significance for individuals, firms and nations intending to use science as a source of competitive advantage. To address these critical issues, my research deepens our understanding of the academiccommercial boundary. Not only does it describe the broad transformation wrought on scientists by IP. It also identifies the causal impact of this transformation in two areas: the daily life of scientists and the productivity and organization of the scientific community. Finally, it captures the mediating influence of firm strategy and social norms on these changes and, reciprocally, the ways in which academic scientists and their counterparts in industry have shaped their institutional environments. In doing so, my work expands our current understanding of how changes in IP rights and their enforcement shape the daily practices of scientists and in turn how this influences the organization and productivity of scientific work. It also brings new insights into the ways in which scientists actually shape their institutional environments, contrasting the relatively simplistic view of the scientific community that prevails. As a result of my research, scholars, managers and policy-makers are better able to predict how their strategies and policies shape and are shaped by scientific practice, and therefore how they influence knowledge accumulation and, ultimately, growth.
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