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Private-collective software business models : coordination and commercialization via licensing
Koski, Heli (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003456020
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Competition Among Proprietary and Open-Source Software Firms : The Role of Licensing on Strategic Contribution
August, Terrence - 2020
and prices are endogenously determined in equilibrium, (ii) how license restrictiveness impacts equilibrium investments … and the quality of offerings, and (iii) how license restrictiveness affects consumer surplus and social welfare. Although … restrictive license instead encourages greater effort from the OSS contributor, leads to higher OSS quality, and provides a larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837117
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Dual Licensing in Open Source Software Industry
Valimaki, Mikko - 2014
This paper analyses how several open source companies use dual licensing: both open source and proprietary licenses for one product. Three case studies based on the experiences of companies Sleepycat Software Inc., MySQL AB, and TrollTech AS illustrate the issue. Especially the legal and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012708746
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Open Source Licensing in Mixed Markets, or Why Open Source Software Does Not Succeed
Gaudeul, Alexia - 2013
may choose liberal license terms such as those of the Berkeley Software Distribution as proprietary developers will then … may use more restrictive license terms such as the General Public License to discourage proprietary appropriation of her …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220275
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Open Source, Dual Licensing and Software Competition
Darmon, Eric; Torre, Dominique - 2014
To distribute software, commercial vendors of proprietary software have the opportunity to use some dual licensing (DL) strategy i.e. to provide their software under two different licensing terms (proprietary and open source). We investigate the relevance and impacts of this distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147447
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Private-Collective Software Business Models : Coordination and Commercialization Via Licensing
Koski, Heli A. - 2014
Private-collective business models that involve both private investment incentives and the production of public goods are not well understood. This empirically oriented research uses a unique data from the software industries of five European countries (Finland, Germany, Italy, Portugal and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049281
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Individuals and teams in UMTS-license auctions
Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin; Strauß, Sabine - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003675359
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Individuals and teams in UMTS-license auctions
Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin; Strauß, Sabine - 2007 - This version: 15 October 2007
We examine bidding behaviour of individuals and teams in an experimental auction resembling UMTS-license auctions. Even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009731143
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License expenditures of incumbents and potential entrants : an empirical analysis of firm behavior
Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor); Kraft, Kornelius (contributor) - 2005
This paper presents the results of an empirical test concerning the auction model of Gilbert and Newbery (1982). The study uses data on German companies in order to analyze expenditures for technology licenses. Aside of standard control variables the motives for innovation expenditures are also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002822031
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Patent thickets, licensing and innovative performance
Cockburn, Iain (contributor); MacGarvie, Megan (contributor) - 2008
firms that do incur license costs we find a weak positive association between licensing expenditure and fragmented IP rights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003784653