Can a Knowledge-Sharing System Survive in a Competitive Academic Environment?
This paper reports on a social experiment designed to test a single hypothesis: that in a hyper-competitive academic environment, students will voluntarily share their intellectual assets if provided with the right structural infrastructure—even in the absence of any extrinsic reward.
authors: SiHoo Lee
affiliations: Korea Science Academy of KAIST
abstract: This paper reports on a social experiment designed to test a single hypothesis: that in a hyper-competitive academic environment, students will voluntarily share their intellectual assets if provided with the right structural infrastructure—even in the absence of any extrinsic reward.
keywords: social; crowd theory; academics;
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