A large, and purportedly increasing, number of research fields in modern science require scholars from more than one discipline to understand their puzzling phenomena. In response, many scholars argue that scientific work needs to become more interdisciplinary, and is indeed becoming so. This...

Code reuse is a form of knowledge reuse in software development that is fundamental to innovation in many fields. However, to date there has been no systematic investigation of code reuse in open source software projects. This study uses quantitative and qualitative data gathered from a sample...

Introduction -- Part I. Theory -- Crowdfunding and Higher Education: beyond raising funds, a new path to outreach? -- Crowdfunding for Science and Teaching in Higher Education: Status Quo and Research Agenda -- Mapping the Knowledge of Scientific Research on Education Crowdfunding -- Teaching...

How does the social capital of venture capitalists (VCs) affect the funding of start-ups? By building on the rich social capital literature, we hypothesize a positive effect of VCs’ social capital, derived from past syndication, on the amount of money that start-ups receive. Specifically, we...