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Public provision of a private good: What is the point of the BSD license?
Gaudeul, Alex - EconWPA - 2005
Software is a potentially excludable public good. It is possible, at some cost, to exclude non-paying users from its … consumption by using copyright law or technological restraints. Licensing the software under proprietary license terms makes of it … a private good, licensing it under the BSD does not change the economic nature of the software while licensing it under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134417
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Employment Effects of Different Innovation Activities: Microeconometric Evidence
Peters, Bettina - EconWPA - 2005
process innovations, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in Germany … CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation output. The econometric analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118792
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Protéger les méthodes commerciales liées à Internet : un frein au développement ?
Delzelle, Benoit - EconWPA - 2003
La protection juridique des méthodes commerciales liées à Internet est très controversée. Est-il opportun de protéger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407748
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Incentives and spillovers in R&D activities: an agency-theoretic analysis of industry-university relations
Lacetera, Nicola - EconWPA - 2003
In this paper, I study industry-university relations in a principal- agent framework. Following the existing literature, these relations are interpreted in two ways: (1) as occurring through spillovers of knowledge among different groups of researchers, working for different institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561799
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Knowledge Management: Are We Missing Something?
Hildreth, Paul; Wright, Peter; Kimble, Chris - EconWPA - 2005
As commercial organisations face up to modern pressures to downsize and outsource they have begun to realise that they have lost knowledge as people leave and take with them what they know. This knowledge is increasingly being recognised as an important resource and organisations are now taking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134487
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Computer Mediated Communications and Communities of Practice
Hildreth, Paul; Kimble, Chris; Wright, Peter - EconWPA - 2005
Within the Knowledge Management context, there is growing interest in computer support for group knowledge sharing and the role that Communities of Practice play in this. Communities of Practice are groups of individuals with a common purpose and who share some background, language or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412885
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Heterogeneous Researchers in a Two-Sector Representative Consumer Economy
Gomes, Orlando - EconWPA - 2004
innovation projects. There is heterogeneity in terms of risk associated to research programs (researchers invest in projects with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125685
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Innovation, Market Structure and Economic Growth
Palma, Nuno Pedro Gonçalves - EconWPA - 2004
This paper presents a dynamic partial equilibrium model that endogenizes firms' investment decision on innovation …: product innovation causes horizontal expansion growth, and process innovation causes vertical expansion growth. Market … structure in different markets emerges as a consequence of different investment on innovation opportunities. Main variables that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134434
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Aufschwung Ost durch öffentliche Wissenschaftseinrichtungen?
Rosner, Ulf; Leßmann, Grit - EconWPA - 2004
Ostdeutsche Unternehmen sind durch eine relative Innovationsschwäche gekennzeichnet, worin auch ein wesentlicher Grund für die Wachstumsschwäche der Region zu sehen ist. Mit der Wende 1989/90 lösten sich bestehende Beziehungsnetzwerke zwischen Wissenschaftseinrichtungen und Unternehmen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119031
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VIOLACIÓN A LOS DERECHOS DE PROPIEDAD INTELECTUAL EN AMERICA
Márquez-Escobar, Pablo - EconWPA - 2004
problem. As a development of the theory, the author apply his theoretical assumption to the software copyrights. Then, the … author demonstrates econometrically that it’s possible to build an alternative model to explain software piracy taking in to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126057