Market creation in the public domain:

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• Market creation in the public domain
• an empirical analysis of microbes
• Per Stromberg a , Tom Dedeurwaerdere b, Unai
  Pascual a
• a Department of Land Economy, University of
  Cambridge
• b Centre for the Philosophy of Law (CPDR),
  Université Catholique de Louvain

Institutions for Providing Global Environmental
Goods. Managing uncertainty, complexity and
change in the field of biodiversity and climate
change Brussels, 15-16 June 2006 Corresponding
author, pmjs2_at_cam.ac.uk
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Overview

• Introduction
• Microbes, actors
• Governance of the microbe flow
• Theory
• Preliminary findings
• Discussion

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What are microbes anyway?
Fungi
Values
Biotec
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Culture collections

• Genebanks
• Intertemporal supply
• Origin
• Individual to ATCC

Anthrax
Sport shoe fungi
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Flow of microbes
Providers
Intermediary
Users
Scientists
Microbial collection
Academia
Industry (Biotec)

• Option value
• Search cost

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B. Governing the microbe flow

• Hypothesis
• A two tier system of collections is emerging,
• that produces joint products either private
• goods as inputs for public goods, or as inputs
  
• for private goods.

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Theoretical frame

• 1. Actor Network Theory (Latour)
• 2. Public good theory (Cornes Sandler)
• INCENTIVESgovernance

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Method

• Interviews (incentives, classify good)
• Survey 384 collections of microbes, north-south
• Next step Econometrics

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1.Actor Network Theory

• Actors people/objects/institutions
• Heterogeneity, social technical, inseparable
• Translation glue, societal order
• Key INCENTIVES
• Challenge simplicity

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Actor Network that governs the microbe flow
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2.Public good theory

• Public good
• Private good

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How to classify microbes?
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Regime change
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Preliminary findings

• Regime shift formal/commercial