The Historical Origins of "Open Science"
Auditorium, Room 1122, NCSA
1205 West Clark Street
Urbana
The emergence of open science
practices during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was a distinctive and vital organizational aspect of the Scientific Revolution. From those developments crystallized a new set of norms, incentives, and organizational structures supporting cooperative rivalries
in the revelation of reliable knowledge. Analyzing the role of asymmetric information in the economics of late Renaissance court patronage illuminates this historical break from secrecy in the pursuit of Nature's secrets,
and its modern-day significance.
Hosted by: Department of Speech Communication
In conjunction with: College of Law, Coordinated Science Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Department of Economics, Department of History, Department of Sociology, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Illinois Program in Law and Economics, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Alpha Omega Epsilon, Engineering Sorority, Association for Computer Machinery, Intellectual Property Legal Society
Professor of Economics (Emeritus), Stanford University, Senior Fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and Senior Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford