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Information Sharing and Cumulative Innovation in Business Networks
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
How can we explain the success of cooperative networks of firms that share innovations, such as Silicon Valley or the Open Source community? This Paper shows that if innovations are cumulative, making an invention publicly available to a network of firms may be valuable if the firm expects to...
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Digital Goods and the New Economy
Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067419
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Growth Effects of Non-Proprietary Innovation
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds our proprietary innovation, which on net may reduce total innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662038
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Microstructure of Collaboration: The 'Social Network' of Open Source Software
Fershtman, Chaim; Gandal, Neil - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
The open source model is a form of software development with source code that is typically made available to all interested parties. At the core of this process is a decentralized production process: open source software development is done by a network of unpaid software developers. Using data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662205
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Public Subsidies for Open Source? Some Economic Policy Issues of the Software Market
Schmidt, Klaus M.; Schnitzer, Monika - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This Paper discusses the economic merits of direct or indirect governmental support for open source projects. Software markets differ from standard textbook markets in three important respects that may give rise to market failures: (i) large economies of scale, (ii) crucially important...
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The Determinants of Output Per Contributor in Open Source Projects: An Empirical Examination
Fershtman, Chaim; Gandal, Neil - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Using a unique dataset we examine empirically which factors explain output per contributor in open source projects. We find that the output per contributor of open source programmes is much higher when licenses are less restrictive. Further examination suggests that the difference in output per...
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Network Dynamics and Knowledge Transfer in Virtual Organizations: Overcoming the Liability of Dispersion
Gandal, Neil; Stettner, Uriel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Product development within and across community-based and geographically dispersed virtual organizations is becoming an increasingly important mechanism through which individual knowledge holders create and disseminate knowledge in joint efforts to generate products. Without the benefits of...
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Complementarity in the Innovation Strategy: Internal R&D, External Technology Acquisition and Cooperation
Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
perceived complementarity between these innovation activities. An important finding is that a capacity to strategically protect …Successful innovation depends on the development and integration of new knowledge in the innovation process. In order … to innovate successfully, the firm will combine different innovation activities. In addition to doing own research and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005667033
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Complementarities in Innovation Policy
Mohnen, Pierre; Röller, Lars-Hendrik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This Paper develops a framework for testing discrete complementarities in innovation policy using European data on … obstacles to innovation. We propose a discrete test of supermodularity in innovation policy leading to a number of inequality … constraints. We apply our test to two types of innovation decisions: to innovate or not, and if so, by how much. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661425
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Asymmetric Information, Agency Costs and Innovative Entry
Audretsch, David B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
the value of their potential innovation in industries characterized by a greater degree of knowledge asymmetries. Based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791501