efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …

in which the offshore outsourcing of a corporation goes through a sequence of stages towards sourcing for innovation … low-cost countries: the insourcer/vendor may not only offer cost advantages, but also quality improvement and innovation …

learn, which are related with access to education and also with possibilities to apply knowledge creatively while …

This paper introduces a model of knowledge sharing of lead users located in a public and unrestricted community of … users. While existing literature on knowledge sharing focuses on allocation and collaboration processes inside or among … companies we extend this to the community level. We then focus on how key agents — lead users — facilitate knowledge sharing in …

an external learning strategy aiming at absorbing external sources of knowledge. The results show that the co …

on innovation output. Previous literature has stressed that investments into the heterogeneity of partners in an alliance … influence on a firms innovation output. Furthermore, maintaining diverse alliance portfolios has an inverted U-shaped influence … on a firm’s innovation output, as managerial costs and complexity levels become too high. …

incentives and (b) innovation effects of the proposed remedy. We discuss the economic basis for the Commission's claims that … and argue that the effects on innovation are not unambiguously negative as Microsoft claim. We conclude with some general … implications of the case for anti-trust enforcement in high innovation sectors. …