A<sc>ntonietti</sc> R., F<sc>errante</sc> M. R. and L<sc>eoncini</sc> R. Spatial agglomeration, production technology and the choice to make and/or buy: empirical evidence from the Emilia Romagna machine tool industry, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. Using a new firm-level dataset, the decision, and relative intensity, to source either...

A large number of studies has been canvassed by the growing rates of diffusion of Open Source Software. However, a formal analysis of the process of competition between open-source and proprietary software is still missing. We propose an epidemic model of innovation diffusion to deal with the...