Research report 2013 - Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition

Information infrastructure for research data: The project European Data Watch Extended

Authors
Mueller-Langer, Frank
Departments
Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb, München
Summary
There is no evidence that researchers in economics and management are willing to share their research data voluntarily for purposes of promoting scientific discourse or for replication. Based on this finding, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition study the incentives that increase the chance of voluntary data-sharing. Academic tenure and a positive attitude towards Open Science principles are two potential factors that have a verifiable impact on voluntary data-sharing.

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