between two IPR regimes: open source software (OSS) or closed source software (CSS). The share of new firms with an OSS … source intellectual property rights ; software industry …

This paper considers a dynamic model of the evolution of open source software projects, focusing on the evolution of … source software are motivated by reciprocal altruism to publish their own improvements. The evolution of the open …

For a decade, economists have been fascinated by the phenomenon of open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free … access to the software and its source code. It is developed in a public, collaborative manner by thousands of non … property paradigm. This paper provides an introduction into the topic OSS versus closed source software (CSS, also called …

The primary findings of our study suggest that software firms that adopt the OSS-based business model are notably less … productive than companies that merely offer proprietary software solutions. Our estimation results further show that the OSS … model use has not substantially improved the performance of software firms, we find that the OSS business model adopters …

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 …

We study competitive interaction between profit-maximizing firms that sell software and complementary goods or services … three business models: the proprietary model (where all software modules offered by the firm are proprietary), the open … situations: monopoly, commercial firm vs. non-profit open source project, and duopoly. We show that: (i) firms may become "more …

The open source model is a form of software development with source code that is typically made available to all … interested parties. At the core of this process is a decentralized production process: open source software development is done … by a network of unpaid software developers. Using data from Sourceforge.net, the largest repository of Open Source …

Open standards and open source have become essential for ICT markets from an innovation, business, technical, and …', some views have pointed to a ‘clear-cut' division between open and close standards. Rather than a pure binary approach this … different existing typologies of ICT standards and aims to evaluate their degree of openness in each of these dimensions. The …

the long run. We use our model to study whether patents are inefficient, and to explain firms' behavior in the software …