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Athey, Susan - 2010

This paper considers a dynamic model of the evolution of open source software projects, focusing on the evolution of quality, contributing programmers, and users who contribute customer support to other users. Programmers who have used open source software are motivated by reciprocal altruism to...

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Why Develop Open Source Software? The Role of Non-Pecuniary Benefits, Monetary Rewards and Open Source Licence Type

Sauer, Robert M. - 2007

A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three key factors affecting supply: non-pecuniary benefits, future expected monetary returns, and open-source licence type. This paper argues that existing large-scale software developer surveys are inadequate...

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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier : Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2015

conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …-skilled employees and industries in Germany by a more unequal distribution of human capital intensity. Except for low …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions …

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Apparent Competition in Two-Sided Platforms

Guven, Gokhan - 2017

We study a platform's design of membership and transaction fees when sellers compete and buyers cannot observe the prices and features of goods without incurring search costs. The platform alleviates sellers' competition by charging them transaction fees that increase with sales revenue, and...

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Growth Effects of non Proprietary Innovation

Saint-Paul, Gilles - CESifo - 2002

We study an endogenous growth model where a profit-motivated R and D sector coexists with the introduction of free blueprints invented by philanthropists. These goods are priced at marginal cost, contrary to proprietary ones which are produced by a monopoly owned by the inventor. We show that...

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Community Enterprises - An Institutional Innovation

Frey, Bruno S. - 2011

Management research has long focused on the theory of the firm, studying for-profit organizations that produce privately owned resources based on central authority and within well-defined boundaries. In recent times, a new kind of enterprise has emerged that we call Community Enterprises. They...

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Why Don't Women Patent?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2012

We investigate women's underrepresentation among holders of commercialized patents: only 5.5% of holders of such patents are female. Using the National Survey of College Graduates 2003, we find only 7% of the gap in patenting rates is accounted for by women's lower probability of holding any...

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Beyond Additionality : Are Innovation Subsidies Counterproductive?

Catozzella, Alessandra - 2014

Building on a standard policy evaluation literature mainly aimed at estimating the additional effect of subsidies on either firms' innovative expenditures or innovative outputs only, this paper tries to move one step further, combining the two (input and output) dimensions of innovation into a...

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Persistence of Politicians and Firms' Innovation

Bellettini, Giorgio - 2014

We empirically investigate whether the persistence of politicians in political institutions affects the innovation activity of firms. We use 12,000 firm-level observations from three waves of the Italian Observatory over Small and Medium Enterprises, and introduce a measure of political...

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Private versus Social Incentives for Pharmaceutical Innovation

Gonzalez, Paula - 2016

We provide a theoretical framework to contribute to the current debate regarding the tendency of pharmaceutical companies to direct their R&D toward marketing products that are “follow-on” drugs of already existing drugs, rather than toward the development of breakthrough drugs. We construct...

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