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Intellectual Property Rights and Ex-Post Transaction Costs : The Case of Open and Closed Source Software
Engelhardt, Sebastian von - 2014
The economic characteristics of software and transaction costs explain, why closed source and open source software co-exist. It is about the efficient use of a non- and anti-scarce resource. But because of ex-post transaction costs that lead to information asymmetries, some property rights...
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Quality competition or quality cooperation? : license-type and the strategic nature of open source vs. closed source business models
Engelhardt, Sebastian von - 2010
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 contract. The economics of open source (OS) versus...
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Quality Competition or Quality Cooperation? License-Type and the Strategic Nature of Open Source vs. Closed Source Business Models
Engelhardt, Sebastian von - 2014
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 contract. The economics of open source (OS) versus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068600
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Competition Among Proprietary and Open-Source Software Firms : The Role of Licensing on Strategic Contribution
August, Terrence - 2020
In enterprise software markets, firms are increasingly using services-based business models built on open-source software (OSS) to compete with established, proprietary software firms. Because thirdparty firms can also strategically contribute to OSS and compete in the services market, the...
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A Dynamic Model of Open Source vs Proprietary R&D
Tesoriere, Antonio - 2017
We propose a dynamic model in which firms compete to produce sequential and cumulative innovations, and in which the more firms do research in one sector the more likely it is that one of them innovates. Firms choose research effort and whether to patent innovations or to use an Open Source...
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Consumer Welfare and Market Structure in a Model of Competition between Open Source and Proprietary Software
Gaudeul, Alexia - 2014
I consider a Vickrey-Salop model of spatial product differentiation with quasi-linear utility functions and contrast two modes of production, the proprietary model where entrepreneurs sell software to the users, and the open source model where users participate in software development. I show...
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Open source software, closed source software or both : impacts on industry growth and the role of intellectual property rights
Engelhardt, Sebastian von (contributor);  … - 2008
, copyright to patent protection. Such an analysis is beneficial as it enables an objective comparison of the three scenarios … that the move from no protection to copyright protection increases the maximum growth rate. However, despite assuming … properly functioning patents, the benefits of moving from copyright to patent protection are less clear. -- Intellectual …
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Innovation, imitation and open source
Pollock, Rufus - 2008
An extensive empirical literature indicates that, even without formal intellectual property rights, innovators enjoy a variety of first-mover advantages and that `imitation' is itself a costly activity. There is also accumulating evidence that an `open' approach to knowledge production can...
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A License to Kill (Innovation)? Open Source Licenses and Their Implications for Innovation
Tsur, Michal; David, Shay - 2014
This paper examines the implications of Open Source License (OSL) selection on software innovation, and suggests how modifying the Open Source Definition, or modifying certain provisions in OSLs that have become de-facto standard licenses in open source development, could better accommodate the...
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Share to scare : technology sharing in the absence of intellectual property rights
Jansen, Jos - 2009
I study the incentives of Cournot duopolists to share their technologies with their competitor in markets where intellectual property rights are absent and imitation is costless. The trade-off between a signaling effect and an expropriation effect determines the technology-sharing incentives. In...
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