There is considerable debate regarding the use of intellectual property rights (IPR) to spur innovation in the software … developing a growth optimal mixture of open source and closed source software. This optimal scenario is then used as a basis to … examine the co-existence of open and closed source software within various institutional frameworks ranging from no protection …

between two IPR regimes: open source software (OSS) or closed source software (CSS). The share of new firms with an OSS …

In the ICT sector, product-software is an important factor for the quality of the products (e.g. cell phones). In this … context, open source software enables firms to avoid quality competition as they can cooperate on quality without an explicit … 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 …

The economic characteristics of software and transaction costs explain, why closed source and open source software co … say, a first best realization of contracts is not feasible. Hence, open and closed source software are two second best …

Software is a good with very special economic characteristics. Taking a general definition of software as its starting … and cost structure, the demand, the contestability of software-markets, and the allocative efficiency. In this context it … appears to be reasonable to subsume the various characteristics under the following generic terms: software as a means of data …

The primary findings of our study suggest that software firms that adopt the OSS-based business model are notably less … productive than companies that merely offer proprietary software solutions. Our estimation results further show that the OSS … model use has not substantially improved the performance of software firms, we find that the OSS business model adopters …

This paper considers a dynamic model of the evolution of open source software projects, focusing on the evolution of … source software are motivated by reciprocal altruism to publish their own improvements. The evolution of the open …

Recently the software industry has experienced fundamental changes in market structure through the entry of open source … market structure from monopoly to duopoly under the assumption that software producers compete in technology rather than … price or quantities. The model includes the presence of technological progress and menu costs of adjusting existing software …

goods are not well understood. This empirically oriented research uses the unique data from the software industries of five … provision of software placed in the public domain. The estimation results strongly suggest that the highly restrictive GPL … spreads particularly via the firms that have participated in the OSS development projects. The software companies supplying …

Our study aims at shedding light on the innovative business strategies in the software sector and particularly … providing a better understanding of the economics underlying the supply of Open Source Software (OSS). We use survey data … collected from 170 Finnish software companies to investigate the determinants of the choice of OSS production. Our study focuses …