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may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds our proprietary innovation, which on net may reduce total innovation …
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Open innovation is a powerful framework encompassing the generation, capture, and employment of intellectual property … at the firm level. We identify three fundamental challenges for firms in applying the concept of open innovation: finding … creative ways to exploit internal innovation, incorporating external innovation into internal development, and motivating …
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I consider a Vickrey-Salop model of spatial product differentiation with quasi-linear utility functions and contrast two modes of production, the proprietary model where entrepreneurs sell software to the users, and the open source model where users participate in software development. I show...
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I consider a Vickrey-Salop model of spatial product differentiation with quasi-linear utility functions and contrast two modes of production, the proprietary model where entrepreneurs sell software to the users, and the open source model where users participate in software development. I show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032061
the economics of innovation, as well as specialized literature on OS. Empirical evidence based on a survey of 146 Italian …
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A better understanding of Open Source Innovation in Physical Product (OSIP) might allow project managers to mitigate … risks associated with this innovation model and process, while developing the right strategies to maximise OSIP outputs. In … the software industry, firms have been highly successful using Open Source Innovation (OSI) strategies. However, OSI in …
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efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …
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We present a model of industry equilibrium to study the coexistence of Open Source (OS) and Proprietary (P) firms. Two novel aspects of the model are: (1) participation in OS arises as the optimal decision of profit-maximizing firms, and (2) OS and P firms may (or may not) coexist in...
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This is a case study of TeX, a typesetting software that was developed by Donald E. Knuth in the late 70's. Released with an open source license, it has become a reference in scientific publishing. TeX is now used to typeset and publish much of the world's scientific literature in physics and...
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efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …
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