Global Scientific Research Commons Under The Nagoya Protocol: Towards A Collaborative Economy Model For The Sharing Of Basic Research Assets

This paper aims to get a better understanding of the motivational and transaction cost features of<br> building global scientific research commons, with a view to contributing to the debate on the design of<br> appropriate policy measures under the recently adopted Nagoya Protocol. For this purpose, the paper<br> analyses the results of a world-wide survey of managers and users of microbial culture collections, which<br> focused on the role of social and internalized motivations, organizational networks and external<br> incentives in promoting the public availability of upstream research assets. Overall, the study confirms<br> the hypotheses of the social production model of information and shareable goods, but it also shows the<br> need to complete this model. For the sharing of materials, the underlying collaborative economy in<br> excess capacity plays a key role in addition to the social production, while for data, competitive pressures<br> amongst scientists tend to play a bigger role.