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 …

may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds our proprietary innovation, which on net may reduce total innovation …

Application software is one of the most important elements of any information system. The most recent trend in the … field of the software is, undoubtedly, migration of classic applications from centralized computer architectures to network … tools are dealt with in the paper and software base in the enterprises of the South-East Europe and modes of the creation …

The paper analyzes voluntary Free Software/Open Source Software (FS/OSS) organization of work. The empirical setting … considered is the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. The paper finds that the production process is hierarchical notwithstanding … the modular (nearly decomposable) architecture of software and of voluntary FS/OSS organization. But voluntary FS …

businesses. It also proposes solutions. It considers, for example, how to open a platform to decentralized innovation yet still …

collectively provided open source and open content knowledge assemblages. Whilst the impact of hijacking on open source software …

, respectively. Microsoft, Netscape and Linux. The concluding section relates software development to the broader forms of economic …This article proposes three ideal business models to analyze innovation in knowledge-intensive goods and services. The … innovation, e.g. creation of novelty and of economic value. Defining the models this way leads to a discussion of the advantages …