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A REVIEW OF ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES ON COLLABORATION IN SCIENCE Jeffrey L. Furman Patrick Gaule Boston University NBER CERGE-EI CERGE Charles University updated draft: October 22, 2013 paper commissioned for the National Research Coun cil Study of the Science of Team Science draft for initial presentation at the Workshop on Institutional Organizational Supports for Team Science October 24, 2013 * Furman: Boston University School of Management, 595 Commonwealth Ave - #653a, Boston, MA 02215 NBER (furman@). Gaule: CERGE-EI CERGE Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (patrick.gaule@cerge-ei.cz), We would like to thank Pierre Azoulay, Annamaria Conti, Ina Ganguli, Joshua Gans, Ben Jones, Josh Krieger, Megan MacGarvie, Fiona Murray, Paula Stephan, and Scott Stern for discussions about collaboration in science. Please note that this is an early draft of these ideas and that will be revised in light of additional discussion and presentation. All errors are our own. I. Introduction This paper provides a review of economic perspective on collaboration in science (or team science).1 It aims to explain two central facts about scientific collaboration: First, it identifies a series of explanations regarding the factors drawing together scientific collaborators. Second, it addresses the most salient empirical fact about scientific collaboration over the past century, asking why the fraction of scientific projects undertaken by teams and why the size of such teams has been growing over time (Jones, Wuchty and Uzzi, 2008;