the activity of firms in opensource software to support their innovation strategies. Firms involved in open …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 …

Based on collaboration rather than competition, Open Source Software provides a new dynamic in the development and use … of software systems. As such it has the potential to make a significant legal, social and economic impact on the industry …. While its origins trace back to the start of the software industry, the recent success of the Linux operation system, Apache …

interoperability between chemistry software, encouraging cooperation between Open Source developers, and developing community resources … very successful in bringing together researchers and developers with common interests in ODOSOS, leading to development of …

the software industry, firms have been highly successful using Open Source Innovation (OSI) strategies. However, OSI in …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 …

We study competitive interaction between profit-maximizing firms thatsell software and complementary goods or services … three business models: theproprietary model (where all software modules offered by the firm areproprietary), the open source …

In recent years, the development of software in open source communities has attracted immense attention from research … and practice. The idea of commercial quality, free software, and open source code accelerated the development of well …-designed open source software such as Linux, Apache tools, or Perl. Intrinsic motivation, group identification processes, learning …

Empirical research on Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) has shown that developers tend to cluster around two main … roles: "core" contributors differ from "peripheral" developers in terms of a larger number of responsibilities and a higher … productivity pattern. A further, cross-cutting characterization of developers could be achieved by associating developers with …

A detailed survey of 498 “high tech” SMEs in the Netherlands shows process innovation by user firms to be common … practice. Fifty four percent of these relatively small firms reported developing entirely novel process equipment or software … transferred. The pattern we document of frequent innovation by individual user firms at substantial cost, followed in many cases …