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Quality competition or quality cooperation? : license-type and the strategic nature of open source vs. closed source business models

Engelhardt, Sebastian von - 2010

develop software, either as OS or CS, or as a an OS-CS-mix if the license allows. In stage two, firms bundle this with … is a strategic substitute to OS and vice versa. 2.) The type of OS-license plays a crucial role: only if the license …

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Least-present-value-of revenue auctions and highway franchising

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Standard-essential patents

Lerner, Joshua; Tirole, Jean - 2013

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Efficient patent pools

Lerner, Joshua; Tirole, Jean - 2002

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Efficient Patent Pools

Lerner, Josh - 2002

The paper builds a tractable model of a patent pool, an agreement among patent owners to license a set of their patents … welfare. It shows that requiring pool members to be able to independently license patents matters if and only if the pool is … form a pool or to cross-license when they themselves are users of the patents in the pool …

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Standard-Essential Patents

Lerner, Josh - 2013

A major policy issue in standard setting is that patents that are ex-ante not that important may, by being included into the standard, become standard-essential patents (SEPs). In an attempt to curb the monopoly power that they create, most standard-setting organizations require the owners of...

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Intellectual property rights and ex-post transaction costs : the case of open and closed source software

Engelhardt, Sebastian von (contributor) - 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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The scope of open source licensing

Lerner, Joshua; Tirole, Jean - 2002

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The simple economics of open source

Lerner, Joshua; Tirole, Jean - 2000

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The Economics of Technology Sharing : Open Source and Beyond

Lerner, Josh - 2004

This paper reviews our understanding of the growing open source movement. We highlight how many aspects of open source software appear initially puzzling to an economist. As we have acknowledge, our ability to answer confidently many of the issues raised here questions is likely to increase as...

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