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Knowledge and its Economic Characteristics - A Conceptual Clarification

Witt, Ulrich; Broekel, Tom; Brenner, Thomas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper discusses several features of knowledge that are often considered crucial for characterizing the economic significance of knowledge: whether it is overtly accessible or tacit, whether it can be or is encoded or not, and whether it has public or private good character. It is argued...

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Why and how do scientists commercialize their research? Towards a typology of inventors

Goktepe-Hultan, Devrim - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Incentives and assistance provided by TTOs, university policies, patent legislation and scientific disciplines are certainly part of the explanations for academic entrepreneurship. But they are only one facet of the story. Another facet is related to the scientists' motives, expectations and...

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What do Scientists Want: Money or Fame?

Göktepe, Devrim; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

What makes scientists patent and disclose inventions to employers? Using a new dataset on Max Planck scientists, we explore their motivations to patent and/or disclose inventions. We propose that patenting need not be used for monetary benefits. Scientists value reputation as important use...

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Technology transfer offices and university patenting - a review

Ledebur, Sidonia von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This policy paper on science-industry technology transfer has four emphases: the rationale of recent changes in German science policy, the contribution of diverse transfer channels to economic development as well as the role of IPR in that context, the differences in the institutional framework...

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A Theoretical Framework for Understanding University Inventors and Patenting

Göktepe, Devrim - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper develops theoretical standpoints to investigate and analyse university inventors and patenting activities. Although the studies on academic entrepreneurship and university patenting have substantially increased, first there have not been enough studies on individual inventors and...

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What Economists Know about Open Source Software - Its Basic Principles and Research Results

Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

For a decade, economists have been fascinated by the phenomenon of open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free access to the software and its source code. It is developed in a public, collaborative manner by thousands of non-paid volunteers as well as profit seeking firms. Today, OSS is...

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Geographic Allocation of OSS Contributions: The Role of Institutions and Culture

Engelhardt, Sebastian v.; Freytag, Andreas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We analyze the impact of institutional and cultural factors on the supply side of open source software (OSS). OSS is a privately provided public good: it is marked by free access to the software and its source code, and is developed in a public, collaborative manner by thousands of volunteers as...

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Institutions, Culture, and Open Source

Freytag, Andreas; Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The paper analyzes the impact of institutional and cultural factors on a remarkable economic activity: the production of so-called open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free access to the software and its source code. Copyright-based OSS licenses permit users to use, change, improve and...

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Intellectual Property Rights and Ex-Post Transaction Costs: the Case of Open and Closed Source Software

Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The economic characteristics of software and transaction costs explain, why closed source and open source software co-exist. It is about the efficient use of a non- and anti-scarce resource. But because of ex-post transaction costs that lead to information asymmetries, some property rights...

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Financial Signaling by Innovative Nascent Entrepreneurs

Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

innovation as well as the project's feasibility. Our analysis of 900 nascent entrepreneurs finds that patents and prototypes … increase the likelihood of obtaining equity finance. Thus, if signals are credible, innovation positively impacts external … that the relation between finance and innovation depends on the stage of a start-up lifecycle. …

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