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From keeping ‘nature’s secrets’ to the institutionalization of ‘open science’
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This essay examines the economics of patronage and the roles of asymmetric information and reputation in the early modern reorganization of scientific activities, specifically their influence upon the historical formation of key elements in the ethos and organizational structure of publicly funded open science. The emergence during the late 16th and early 17th centuries of the idea and practice of 'open science' represented a break from the previously dominant ethos of secrecy in the pursuit ...
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- University of Oxford Publisher's website
- Series:
- Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers
- Article number:
- 23
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
- Publication date:
- 2001-07-01
- Paper number:
- 23
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- English
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1169367
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- 2021-03-26
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- Copyright holder:
- Paul A David
- Copyright date:
- 2001
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- © 2001 the Author(s).
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