Patrick Gaule
CERGE-EI
Other affiliations
Harvard
IZA
Research interests
Economics of Science and Innovation
CERGE-EI
A Field Experiment on Search Costs and the Formation of Scientific Collaborations
Search costs continue to powerfully shape (and limit) the formation of collaborations between scientists. Formation of collaborations appears
to be highly sensitive to information-rich face-to-face interactions, which existing communications technologies may not sufficiently substitute.
