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On the Geographic Allocation of Open Source Software Activities
Freytag, Andreas; Engelhardt, Sebastian von; Schulz, … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Open source software (OSS) is marked by free access to the software and its source code. OSS is developed by a 'community' consisting of thousands of contributors from all over the world. Some research was undertaken in order to analyze how global the OSS community actually is, i.e. analyze the...
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Institutions, Culture, and Open Source
Freytag, Andreas; Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper analyzes the impact of institutional and cultural factors on a remarkable economic activity: the production of so-called open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free access to the software and its source code. Copyright-based OSS licenses permit users to use, change, improve and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489509
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Quality Competition or Quality Cooperation? License-Type and the Strategic Nature of Open Source vs. Closed Source Business Models
Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In the ICT sector, product-software is an important factor for the quality of the products (e.g. cell phones). In this context, open source software enables firms to avoid quality competition as they can cooperate on quality without an explicit contract. The economics of open source (OS) versus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493739
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Intellectual Property Rights and Ex-Post Transaction Costs: the Case of Open and Closed Source Software
Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The economic characteristics of software and transaction costs explain, why closed source and open source software co-exist. It is about the efficient use of a non- and anti-scarce resource. But because of ex-post transaction costs that lead to information asymmetries, some property rights...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090498
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The Economic Properties of Software
Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Software is a good with very special economic characteristics. Taking a general definition of software as its starting-point, this article   systematically elaborates the central qualities of the commodity which have implications for its production and cost structure, the demand, the...
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What Economists Know about Open Source Software - Its Basic Principles and Research Results
Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
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-paid volunteers as well as profit seeking firms. Today, OSS is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008828345
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Comparing Innovation Performance in the EU and the USA: Lessons from Three ICT Sub-Sectors
Forge, Simon; Blackman, Colin; Goldberg, Itzhak; Biagi, … - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2013
The objective of the study is to document the existence of innovation gaps between the EU and its main competitors in … government policies in Europe’s future needs for innovation in information and communication technologies (ICT) through a … comparison with the USA and Asian countries. Our analysis shows that rather than there being a simple innovation gap with the EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011169837
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Job Creation Effects of R&D Expenditures: Are High-tech Sectors the Key?
Bogliacino, Francesco; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2011
In this paper we assess the job creation effect of R&D expenditures, using a unique longitudinal database of 677 European companies over the period 1990-2008. We estimate a dynamic labour demand specification using a Least Squares Dummy Variable Corrected (LSDVC) technique. The labour-friendly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886125
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Patent Citations, University Inventor Patents, and Survival in the German Laser Source Industry (1960-2005)
Luis F. Medrano E. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The relationship between innovation and firm survival is analyzed for the population of German laser source producers … from the beginning of the industry until 2005. Innovation effort is approximated by the generation of high quality patents …
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Job creation in business services: innovation, demand, polarisation
Bogliacino, Francesco; Lucchese, Matteo; Pianta, Mario - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2011
role of innovation, demand, wages and the composition of employment by professional groups. A model is developed and an … innovation leads to job losses and wage growth has a negative effect that is lower than in other industries. Business services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416083