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Absorptive capacity and innovation: When is it better to cooperate?

Egbetokun, Abiodun A.; Savin, Ivan - 2012

Cooperation can benefit and hurt firms at the same time. An important question then is: when is it better to cooperate. And how can an appropriate partner be selected? In this paper we present a model of inter-firm cooperation driven by cognitive distance, appropriability conditions and external...

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Absorptive Capacity and Innovation : When Is It Better to Cooperate?

Egbetokun, Abiodun A. - 2013

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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in the Rust Belt

Acs, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...

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Cooperation behaviour and innovation performance in the Nigerian manufacturing industry

Egbetokun, Abiodun A. - 2012

Analysing the relationship between firms' openness to external knowledge and their innovation performance is nothing … focus of this paper. Using unique micro-level innovation data, it is shown, as the existing literature suggests, that firms …. However, innovative firms that exploit external knowledge do not necessarily enjoy greater innovation benefits than those that …

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The Economic Properties of Software

Engelhardt, Sebastian von - 2014

Software is a good with very special economic characteristics. Taking a general definition of software as its starting-point, this article systematically elaborates the central qualities of the commodity which have implications for its production and cost structure, the demand, the...

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

Engelhardt, Sebastian von; Freytag, Andreas - 2013

So-called open source software (OSS) is marked by free access to the software and its source code. Copyright-based OSS licenses permit users to use, change, improve and redistribute the software, which is designed and developed in a public, collaborative manner. High quality OSS products like...

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

Engelhardt, Sebastian von - 2014

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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Who Starts with Open Source? Institutional Choice of Start-Ups in the German ICT Sector

Fritsch, Michael; Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We analyze the characteristics of new businesses in the German ICT industry, distinguishing them based on their choice between two IPR regimes: open source software (OSS) or closed source software (CSS). The share of new firms with an OSS-based business model has increased considerably over the...

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On the Geographic Allocation of Open Source Software Activities

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

Open source software (OSS) is marked by free access to the software and its source code. OSS is developed by a 'community' consisting of thousands of contributors from all over the world. Some research was undertaken in order to analyze how global the OSS community actually is, i.e. analyze the...

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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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