Global scientific research commons under the Nagoya Protocol: Towards a collaborative economy model for the sharing of basic research assets

Tom Dedeurwaerdere, Paolo Melindi-Ghidi and Arianna Broggiato

Environmental Science & Policy, 2016, vol. 55, issue P1, 1-10

Abstract: This paper aims to get a better understanding of the motivational and transaction cost features of building global scientific research commons, with a view to contributing to the debate on the design of appropriate policy measures under the recently adopted Nagoya Protocol. For this purpose, the paper analyses the results of a world-wide survey of managers and users of microbial culture collections, which focused on the role of social and internalized motivations, organizational networks and external incentives in promoting the public availability of upstream research assets. Overall, the study confirms the hypotheses of the social production model of information and shareable goods, but it also shows the need to complete this model. For the sharing of materials, the underlying collaborative economy in excess capacity plays a key role in addition to the social production, while for data, competitive pressures amongst scientists tend to play a bigger role.

Keywords: Collaborative economy; Open access policies; Access and benefit sharing; Biodiversity research; Culture collections (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2015.08.006

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