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Replication Data for: Commercializing Low Earth Orbit

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Replication Data for: Commercializing Low Earth Orbit
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/84NSJJ
 
Creator Wang, Max
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory has been the chariot for scientific experimentation in Low Earth Orbit. Directed by NASA, many of them are conducted in collaboration with private companies. This paper analyzes the outcomes of these experiments using administrative data on scholarly publications and patents. Our descriptive statistics suggest a steadily increasing trend of private sector participation in space station research. Using measures based on citations, we show (1) ISS publications receive more citations than if they were developed on earth, (2) public-private collaboration does not attenuate the quality of science, and (3) it is, however, associated with the growing patent portfolios of space-investing companies.
 
Subject Business and Management
Social Sciences
 
Date 2024-01-16
 
Contributor Wang, Max