innovation. We exploit the observed pattern of contributions – the ‘revealed preference' of developers - to infer the underlying …

In this paper I study how innovation investment in a software duopoly is affected by the fact that one of the firms is … find that a PS duopoly might generate more innovation than a mixed duopoly if the initial technological gap between firms … is small. However if this gap is large, a PS duopoly generates less innovation than a mixed duopoly. I then extend the …

In this paper I study how innovation investment in a software duopoly is affected by the fact that one of the firms is … find that a PS duopoly might generate more innovation than a mixed duopoly if the initial technological gap between firms … is small. However if this gap is large, a PS duopoly generates less innovation than a mixed duopoly. I then extend the …

may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds out proprietary innovation which on net may reduce total innovation … in the long run. These effects would be reinforced if philanthropical innovation diverted people from other productive …

innovation, there is relatively little research on the business value of software innovation itself. In particular, whether a … firm's software innovation affects the market value of the firm's rivals, and whether the capabilities of a focal firm and … innovation, we investigate the impact of a firm's software patents on both a firm's own market value and rivals' market value …

capacity of firms. While a remarkable wealth of knowledge has been accumulated on what accounts for small firm innovation …’ attachment and voluntary contribution to a firm are positively related with firm’s performance improvement and innovation. Those … Internal Promotion Agency in 2004, this study performs a logistic regression to determine predictors of innovation in small …