This study explores how breakthrough inventions shape the patterns of knowledge production. Drawing on the literature on technology competition and inventive search, we argue that a breakthrough invention first increases the intensity of knowledge production as inventors seek to establish a...

This study examines whether and how firms create value by making their innovations free and non-proprietary open source technologies, a possibility that runs counter to the central tenet in strategy regarding the control of private knowledge as a key to profiting from innovation. In exploring...

The development of network technology has prompted the gradual rise of lending platforms, which not only meet the borrowing needs of the long-tail population, but also provide new investment methods for investors with idle funds. However, behind the rapid development of P2P online lending is...