A large and growing literature has used patent and patent citation data to measure knowledge spillovers across inventions and organizations, but relatively few papers in this literature have explicitly considered the collaboration networks formed by inventors as a mechanism for shaping and...

We provide complete source code for building a fundamental industry classification based on publically available and freely downloadable data. We compare various fundamental industry classifications by running a horserace of short-horizon trading signals (alphas) utilizing open source heterotic...

With the recent growing development of open education resources has opened up new avenues for education, learning and research. The open educational resources are offered universally with or without fee in the shape of courses or educational content regardless of credit hours or award of any...

The article examines how open source licensing model has changed the way of exploitation of intellectual property in the software industry. The article analyzes the OSS tendency in general, provides historical background, indicates main differences between OSS and public domain software and...

Todays business environment has become extremely competitive, the ever changing economic tide, other various factors such as globalization, customers' high expectations may lead to uncertainty and unpredictability for business organizations. Business are forced to be more competitive, flexible,...

In today's world, IT is a source of differentiation from competitors. The tendency is to produce more, with the least possible cost and be reactive to the need to continue to change and the requirements of internal and external customers. That is why flexibility, adaptability and cost-cutting is...

A review of Gene Patents and Collaborative Licensing Models: Patent Pools, Clearinghouses, Open Source Models and Liability Regimes. The typically esoteric world of patents has recently been thrust into the headlines as cases involving patented genes have received an unprecedented amount of...

This paper traces the history of the development and use of the Open Source TeX typesetting program. This software was developed over three decades and came into competition with a variety of open-source and proprietary alternatives. TeX was an early and very successful open-source project that...