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Incentivizing Innovation in Open Source : Evidence from the GitHub Sponsors Program
Conti, Annamaria; Gupta, Vansh; Guzman, Jorge; Roche, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Open source is key to innovation, but we know little about how to incentivize it. In this paper, we examine the impact of a program providing monetary incentives to motivate innovators to contribute to open source. The Sponsors program was introduced by GitHub in May 2019 and enabled...
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Old Moats for New Models : Openness, Control, and Competition in Generative AI
Azoulay, Pierre; Krieger, Joshua L.; Nagaraj, Abhishek - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Drawing insights from the field of innovation economics, we discuss the likely competitive environment shaping generative AI advances. Central to our analysis are the concepts of appropriability--whether firms in the industry are able to control the knowledge generated by their innovations--and...
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The Simple Economics of Open Source
Lerner, Josh - 2000
There has been a recent surge of interest in open source software development, which involves developers at many … exploration of the economics of open source software. We highlight the extent to which labor economics, especially the literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471170
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Hidden Software and Veiled Value Creation : Illustrations from Server Software Usage
Murciano-Goroff, Raviv; Zhuo, Ran; Greenstein, Shane M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
to open source software, an unpriced commodity in the digital economy. The study is the first to follow usage and … upgrading of unpriced software over a long period of time. It finds evidence that software updates mislead analyses of sources … software. We analyze the largest dataset ever compiled on web server use in the United States and link it to disaggregated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510617
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Half a Century of Public Software Institutions : Open Source as a Solution to Hold-Up Problem
Schwarz, Michael - 2009
We argue that the intrinsic inefficiency of proprietary software has historically created a space for alternative … institutions that provide software as a public good. We discuss several sources of such inefficiency, focusing on one that has not … software must make complementary investments, when the return on such investments depends on future cooperation of the software …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463702
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PublicationHarvester : An Open-Source Software Tool for Science Policy Research
Azoulay, Pierre - 2006
We present PublicationHarvester, an open-source software tool for gathering publication information on individual life … scientists. The software interfaces with MEDLINE, and allows the end-user to specify up to four MEDLINE-formatted names for each …/editorials, etc.) The software also generates a keywords report at the scientist-year level, using the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466630
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Incorporating Micro Data into Differentiated Products Demand Estimation with PyBLP
Conlon, Christopher; Gortmaker, Jeff - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We provide a general framework for incorporating many types of micro data from summary statistics to full surveys of selected consumers into Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995)-style estimates of differentiated products demand systems. We extend best practices for BLP estimation in Conlon and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337838
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Webmunk : A New Tool for Studying Online Behavior and Digital Platforms
Farronato, Chiara; Fradkin, Andrey; Karr, Chris - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
observing online behavior and conducting experiments is difficult without direct access to the user base and software of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635657
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Open Source Software : The New Intellectual Property Paradigm
Maurer, Stephen M. - 2006
Open source methods for creating software rely on developers who voluntarily reveal code in the expectation that other … types of inefficiencies and different biases in R&D investment. Open source style of software development remedies a defect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466507
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Proprietary vs. Public Domain Licensing of Software and Research Products
Gambardella, Alfonso - 2005
of the public knowledge good (science or research software or database) is sub-optimal. Then we demonstrate that if "lead … the General Public License (GPL) used in the provision of open source software is one of such mechanisms. Our results are … then applied to the specific setting where the knowledge being produced is software or a database that will be used by …
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