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100	1		_aAgrawal, Ajay K. _94537
245	1	0	_aRestructuring Research: _bCommunication Costs and the Democratization of University Innovation / _cAjay K. Agrawal, Avi Goldfarb.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. _bNational Bureau of Economic Research _c2006.
300			_a1 online resource: _billustrations (black and white);
490	1		_aNBER working paper series _vno. w12812
500			_aDecember 2006.
520	3		_aWe report evidence indicating that Bitnet adoption facilitated increased research collaboration between US universities. However, not all institutions benefited equally. Using panel data from seven top engineering journals, Bitnet connection records, and a variety of institution ranking data, we find that medium-ranked universities were the primary beneficiaries; they benefited largely by increasing their collaboration with top-ranked schools. Furthermore, we find that the magnitude of this effect was greatest for co-located pairs. These results suggest that the most salient effect of lowering communication costs may have been to facilitate gains from trade through the specialization of research tasks. Thus, the advent of Bitnet -- and likely subsequent versions, including the Internet -- seems to have increased the role of second-tier universities in the national innovation system as producers of new, high-quality knowledge.
530			_aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
538			_aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588	0		_aPrint version record
690		7	_aO33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences • Diffusion Processes _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aR11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aZ13 - Economic Sociology • Economic Anthropology • Language • Social and Economic Stratification _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
700	1		_aGoldfarb, Avi.
710	2		_aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830		0	_aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) _vno. w12812.
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w12812
856			_yAcceso en línea al DOI _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w12812
942			_2ddc _cW-PAPER
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