The influence of research delays
Personal experience with research tool
exchanges affects researchers’ attitudes toward
IP rights. In particular, researchers who report at
least one research delay associated with IP protection
are significantly more negative regarding
the effects of IP rights in their responses to
Statements IIA and IIB.
The number of delays experienced also influences
attitudes. Simple Ordinary Least Square
(OLS) regressions show that the more delays
respondents have experienced, the more they
tend to report negative evaluations of the effects
of IP protection in responses to Statements IIA
and IIB. On the other hand, the number of
delays does not significantly affect responses
to Statement I; delays do not sour researchers’
views on this issue (Table 1).