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Intellectual Property Rights and Bio Commons : Open Source And Beyond

Srinivas, Krishna Ravi - 2012

This article advocates the use of an open source model as an alternative intellectual property rights regime for seeds and plant varieties. The BioLinux model suggested in this article is based on open source principles. The article traces the evolution of intellectual property rights and...

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The Case for Open Source Appropriate Technology

Pearce, Joshua M. - 2012

fashion as free and open-source software. OSAT is made up of technologies that are easily and economically utilized from …

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Business Models in the Software Market and the Italian Firms' Involvement in Open Source Activities

Rocchetti, Gaia - 2012

Open Source software, developed by a community of mostly volunteers programmers and available on the web free of charge … source software depends mostly on some features of the incumbents' business models. In details, the probability to carry out … carried out a Survey, on a sample of about 200 firms. The analysis of the survey data shows that the limited diffusion of open …

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Coexistence and Market Tipping in a Diffusion Model of Open Source vs. Proprietary Software

Leoncini, Riccardo; Rentocchini, Francesco; Vittucci … - 2012

A large number of studies has been canvassed by the growing rates of diffusion of Open Source Software. However, a …’ motivations for open–source software) upon which such a process of competition ultimately depends. Moreover, we add network …

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FLOSS in an Industrial Economics Perspective

Jullien, Nicolas; Zimmermann, Jean-Benoît - 2012

Free/Libre Open Source software (FLOSS) diffusion represents one of the main evolutions of the Information Technology …

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How Communities Support Innovative Activities : An Exploration of Assistance and Sharing Among End-Users

Shah, Sonali K.; Franke, Nikolaus - 2012

This study contributes to our understanding of the innovation process by bringing attention to and investigating the process by which innovators outside of firms obtain innovation-related resources and assistance. This study is the first to explicitly examine how user-innovators gather the...

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