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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)

Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - 2009

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Cluster innovation along the industry lifecycle

Eisingerich, Andreas; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - 2008

interorganizational network strength, openness, university collaboration, and intrapreneurship on radical innovation across adolescent and …

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Success in pharmaceutical research: The changing role of scale and scope economies, spillovers and competition

Plotnikova, Tatiana - 2010

factors of success in drug development programs at different stages of innovation process. We use economies of scale, scope, R … a project differs in relation to the discovery and development stages of innovation, respectively. Our main finding is … discovery stage of innovation, while in the later development stage, the effects of competition outweigh any benefits from …

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Innovation and social capital: Across-country investigation

Doh, Soogwan; Ács, Zoltán J. - 2009

This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …

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Intellectual property rights and ex-post transaction costs: the case of open and closed source software

von Engelhardt, Sebastian - 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...

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Geographic allocation of OSS contributions: the role of institutions and culture

von Engelhardt, Sebastian; Freytag, Andreas - 2009

So-called open source software (OSS) is marked by free access to the software and its source code. Copyright-based OSS licenses permit users to use, change, improve and redistribute the software, which is designed and developed in a public, collaborative manner. High quality OSS products like...

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Institutions, culture, and open source

von Engelhardt, Sebastian; Freytag, Andreas - 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...

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On the geographic allocation of open source software activities

von Engelhardt, Sebastian; Freytag, Andreas; Schulz, … - 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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Quality competition or quality cooperation? License-type and the strategic nature of open source vs. closed source business models

von Engelhardt, Sebastian - 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...

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What economists know about open source software its basic principles and research results

von Engelhardt, Sebastian - 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...

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