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Incentivizing Innovation in Open Source : Evidence from the GitHub Sponsors Program

Conti, Annamaria; Gupta, Vansh; Guzman, Jorge; Roche, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Open source is key to innovation, but we know little about how to incentivize it. In this paper, we examine the impact of a program providing monetary incentives to motivate innovators to contribute to open source. The Sponsors program was introduced by GitHub in May 2019 and enabled...

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

Engelhardt, Sebastian von - 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 … property paradigm. This paper provides an introduction into the topic OSS versus closed source software (CSS, also called …

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Who starts with open source? : institutional choice of start-ups in the German ICT sector

Fritsch, Michael; Engelhardt, Sebastian v. - 2010

between two IPR regimes: open source software (OSS) or closed source software (CSS). The share of new firms with an OSS … source intellectual property rights ; software industry …

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Dragging developers towards the core : how the free/libre/open source software community enhances developers' contribution

Rullani, Francesco (contributor) - 2006 - This version: January, 2006

The paper presents a dynamic perspective on the landscape of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) developers … hypothesis is actually an empirically grounded result. -- Free/Libre/Open Source Software ; Incentives to Innovate ; Dynamics of …

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

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 …

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Skills and openness of OSS projects : implications for performance

Giuri, Paola; Ploner, Matteo; Rullani, Francesco; … - 2004

software activity. We explore the hypothesis that the level of skills of participants and their skill variety are important for … for innovation. Finally, design modularity is positively associated with the performance of the project. -- software …

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On the geographic allocation of open source software activities

Engelhardt, Sebastian v.; 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 … Software ; Geographical Location ; Open Source Activities …

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Does open innovation foster productivity? : evidence from Open Source Software(OSS) firms

Harison, Elad (contributor); Koski, Heli (contributor) - 2008

The primary findings of our study suggest that software firms that adopt the OSS-based business model are notably less … productive than companies that merely offer proprietary software solutions. Our estimation results further show that the OSS … model use has not substantially improved the performance of software firms, we find that the OSS business model adopters …

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A supply side story for a threshold model : endogenous growth of the free and open source community

Rullani, Francesco; Zirulia, Lorenzo - 2011

technology. Using free and open source software as an example, we develop a model where this phenomenon is confronted with …

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Collaborative Maintenance in Large Open-Source Projects

den Besten, Matthijs L. - 2008

We investigate teamwork among maintainers of open source software projects by analyzing the logs of a set of 10 large …

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