Sotaro Shibayama, Senior Lecturer

School of Economics and Management

Lund University (Sweden)

Wednesday, July 4, 2018  11:00-12:30

Ito International Academic Research Center B1F Gallery 1

Hongo Campus, the University of Tokyo

Japanese and English

Open science is a fundamental scientific norm, prescribing unconditional sharing of scientific discoveries and resources among academic scientists. However, the past decades have seen a growing orientation toward commercialization ad privatization of science, In this seminar, I discuss a fundamental confliect between commercialization (private ownershipo) and openness, drawing on a sample of university scientists in Japan, UK, and Germany. I investigate the evolution of norms and behaviors in commercialization and openness under the current policy context. The result suggests that commercialization is indeed in conflict with openness ,potentially leading to the fragmentation of science. Policy implications are discussed.

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