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Knowledge Networks and Institutions for Innovation Program
Paul A. David, Director
The Knowledge Networks and Institutions for Innovation Program, led by Paul David, professor emeritus of economics, focuses research on public and private policy issues concerned with institutional and technological conditions affecting the production and distribution of scientific and technological knowledge. These include collaboratory software systems, peer-to-peer digital network organizations, and informal “virtual communities”—including those developing free and open source software, the effects of intellectual property law and digital rights management systems upon access to scientific and technical data and information.The design and evaluation of initiatives that use contract law and licensing agreements to create “scientific research commons” represents an emerging area of investigation, which is related to David's involvement in the work of Science Commons, a project of Creative Commons, and the Global Information Commons for Science Initiative, an international initiative launched at the World Summit of the Informational Society in Tunis, in 2005.
The program’s Economic Organization and Viability of Open Source Software Project is funded by a grant to SIEPR from the National Science Foundation.