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Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Llanes, Gaston - Harvard Business School; Harvard Business School - 2009

We study competitive interaction between profit-maximizing firms thatsell software and complementary goods or services. In addition totactical price competition, we allow firms to compete through businessmodel reconfigurations. We consider three business models: theproprietary model (where all...

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The adoption of open source software by Singaporean companies

Koh, Ker Yuan - 2009

Based on collaboration rather than competition, Open Source Software provides a new dynamic in the development and use of software systems. As such it has the potential to make a significant legal, social and economic impact on the industry. While its origins trace back to the start of the...

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Open source innovation in physical products : advantages and disadvantages, a corporate perspective

Blanc, Mickael Francois Henri - 2011

A better understanding of Open Source Innovation in Physical Product (OSIP) might allow project managers to mitigate risks associated with this innovation model and process, while developing the right strategies to maximise OSIP outputs. In the software industry, firms have been highly...

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Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards in chemistry: The Blue Obelisk five years on

O'Boyle, Noel M; Guha, Rajarshi; Willighagen, Egon L; … - 2011

Background: The Blue Obelisk movement was established in 2005 as a response to the lack of Open Data, Open Standards and Open Source (ODOSOS) in chemistry. It aims to make it easier to carry out chemistry research by promoting interoperability between chemistry software, encouraging cooperation...

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Framework for Governance in Open Source Communities

Lattemann, Christoph; Stieglitz, Stefan - 2005

In recent years, the development of software in open source communities has attracted immense attention from research and practice. The idea of commercial quality, free software, and open source code accelerated the development of well-designed open source software such as Linux, Apache tools,...

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Challenges of open innovation: the paradox of firm investment in open-source software

West, Joel; Gallagher, Scott - 2006

Open innovation is a powerful framework encompassing the generation, capture, and employment of intellectual property at the firm level. We identify three fundamental challenges for firms in applying the concept of open innovation: finding creative ways to exploit internal innovation,...

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Measuring user innovation in Dutch high tech SMEs: Frequency, nature and transfer to producers

de Jong, Jeroen P.J.; von Hippel, Eric - 2009

A detailed survey of 498 “high tech” SMEs in the Netherlands shows process innovation by user firms to be common practice. Fifty four percent of these relatively small firms reported developing entirely novel process equipment or software for their own use and/or modifying these at...

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Effort Estimation of FLOSS Projects: A Study of the Linux Kernel

Capiluppi, Andrea; Daniel, Izquierdo-Cortazar - 2011

Empirical research on Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) has shown that developers tend to cluster around two main roles: "core" contributors differ from "peripheral" developers in terms of a larger number of responsibilities and a higher productivity pattern. A further, cross-cutting...

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Altruism and Egoism: Measurable by Utility Discount Rates?

Bayer, Stefan - 2000

Wir analysieren im Rahmen der neoklassischen Theorie die Rolle der Nutzendiskontierungsrate als Egoismus- bzw … intergenerationellen Gleichbehandlungspostulat des Utilitarismus Genüge getan. In der Altruismus-Modellierung ergibt sich das methodische … Problem der mehrfachen Berücksichtigung des selben Effektes. Altruismus ist um so stärker ausgeprägt, je geringer die …

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Theoretical aspects of long-term evaluation in environmental economics

Traeger, Christian - 2006

The present work is dedicated to theoretical aspects of long-term evaluation with a focus on time and uncertainty structure. Motivated along the lines of global warming, the analysis renders contributions to the fields of environmental economics, decision theory, the economics of sustainability...

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