Understanding Fear of Opportunism in Global Prize-Based Science Contests: Evidence for Gender and Age Differences.

ABSTRACT: Global prize-based science contests have great potential for tapping into diverse knowledge on a global scale and overcoming important scientific challenges. A necessary step for knowledge to be utilized in these contests is for that knowledge to be disclosed. Knowledge disclosure, however, is paradoxical in nature: in order for the value of knowledge to be assessed, inventors must disclose their knowledge, but then the person who receives that knowledge does so at no cost and may use it opportunistically. This risk of potential opportunistic behavior in turn makes the inventor fearful of disclosing knowledge, and this is a major psychological barrier to knowledge disclosure. In this project, we investigated this fear of opportunism in global prize-based science contests by surveying 630 c

SUBMITTER: Acar OA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4521938 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature