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This five-page essay responds to Henry Smith's article, quot;Intellectual Property as Property: Delineating Entitlements in Information.quot;A virtual cottage industry of intellectual property (IP) models has sprung up in recent years. To the mix, Professor Smith adds modularity, in which there...
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industry's history, such firms proved most adept at systemic innovation, as in the case of television. But, as in the cases of …
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The notion of dynamic, endogenous diversity and its role in theories of investment and technological innovation is … addressed. We develop a formal model of an innovation arising from the combination of two existing modules, with the objective … innovation and returns to scale. We derive conditions for optimal diversity under different regimes of returns to scale …
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This paper investigates the skills and the division of labor among participants in collective inventions. Our analysis draws on a large sample of projects registered at Sourceforge.net, the world’s largest incubator of open source software activity. We test the hypothesis that skill variety of...
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