Over the last 20 years, open source development has become an integral part of the software industry and a key … component of the innovation strategies of all major IT providers. Against this backdrop, this paper seeks to develop a … open source software projects and their changing relationships to established IT companies. This is followed by the …

and direction of innovation in that software development is a core part of innovation activities in firms across a wide …-level survey data on the frequency and nature of software development among firms in Sweden, matched with the Community Innovation … Survey (CIS). We find robust evidence supporting a software-bias in innovation in that software development is associated …

Over the last 20 years, open source development has become an integral part of the software industry and a key … component of the innovation strategies of all major IT providers. Against this backdrop, this paper seeks to develop a … open source software projects and their changing relationships to established IT companies. This is followed by the …

In this paper I study how innovation investment in a software duopoly is affected by the fact that one of the firms is … technological levels. An OS firm is a for profit organization whose basic software is OS and it is distributed for free. The OS firm …, however, is able to make profits from selling complementary software and, on the cost side; it receives development help from …