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 …

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 …

“Software platforms are the invisible engines that have created, touched, or transformed nearly every major industry … for the enduring principles it lays out; for the lessons taught by software platforms that transformed the economy from …

The potential for Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) to enable open innovation in a particular software market … software markets have characteristics that inherently disfavor initiating or expanding the use of FOSS and its unique mode of … licensing the intellectual property that underlies software. The case study involves software to manage health information for …