ICT, Collaboration, and Science-Based Innovation: Evidence from BITNET

Wernsdorf, Kathrin; Nagler, Markus; Watzinger, Martin

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ICT, Collaboration, and Science-Based Innovation: Evidence from BITNET

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Wernsdorf, Kathrin
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Wernsdorf, K., Nagler, M., & Watzinger, M. (2020). ICT, Collaboration, and Science-Based Innovation: Evidence from BITNET. CESifo Working Paper, No. 8646.

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Does access to information and communication technologies (ICT) increase innovation? We examine this question by exploiting the staggered adoption of BITNET across U.S. universities in the 1980s. BITNET, an early version of the Internet, enabled e-mail-based knowledge exchange and collaboration among academics. After the adoption of BITNET, university-connected inventors increase patenting substantially. The effects are driven by collaborative patents by new inventor teams. The patents induced by ICT are exclusively science-related and stem from ﬁelds where knowledge can be codiﬁed easily. In contrast, we neither ﬁnd an effect on patents not building on science nor on inventors unconnected to universities.