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 …

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 …

This research-in-progress aims to indentify the salient factors explaining adoption of open source software (OSS), as a … technological innovation. The theoretical background of the paper is based on the technological innovation literature. We choose to … focus on the open ERP case, as it is considered as a promising innovation for firms – especially medium firms – but open ERP …

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 …

The paper discusses three key economic problems raised by the emergence and diffusion of Open source software … software development community that deliberately did not follow profit motivations. Second, a hierarchical coordination emerged … without the support of an organization with proprietary rights. Third, Linux and other open source systems diffused in an …