Communia 2009 Conference Breakout Session I

Session A and session B will be held in parallel at 11:00.

- Breakout Session A

• Chair and Discussant: R. Stankiewicz
  The European University Institute
• Legal and Technical Accessibility for Life Science Databases
  Melanie Dulong de Rosnay
  University of. Amsterdam
• Between IPRs and Public Research: Is a Community just a « Fancy Science? »
  Francesco Rullani
  Copenhagen Business School
• Communism and Proprietary Research Regimes—Material Transfers in Life Science and Material Science:
  Sotaro Shibayama
  Georgia Institute of Technology—School of Public Policy

- Breakout Session B

• Chair and Discussant: P. Aghion
  Harvard University
• Climbing Atop the Shoulders of Giants: The Impact of Institutions on Cumulative Research
  Jeffrey Furman
  Boston University
• Information Technology and Research Patterns in the Life Sciences
  Paula Stephen
  Georgia State University
• A Comparison of Information-Sharing among Scientists in Academia and Industry
  Carolin Haeussler
  University of Munich