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Open Source Initiatives and Social Science Research

Posted on May 8, 2015 Updated on May 8, 2015

Open source initiatives that provide scholars and the general public with rigorously collected data on difficult-to-measure constructs are beginning to transform the social sciences. Some great examples include:

• Examples:
  • Brian Bushee (Wharton) is opening up entire new realms of investing research with his publication of open access institutional investor data
    • http://acct.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/bushee/IIclass.html
  • Lee Fleming and colleagues (Harvard) have helped make new forms of research on knowledge spillover, mobility, and geography possible with US patent data by partnering with Harvard information scientists to create and share unique individual inventor identifiers for all US patent data
    • https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/patent
  • Tim Pollock (Penn State) partnered with Oxford University to create and publicly release a reputation index for venture capitalists that has become widely used
    • http://www.timothypollock.com/vc_reputation.htm

If you are interested in getting involved, click on the research page to get connected.