We study the effect of intellectual assets quality, social interaction, and reallocation of intellectual assets on the reputation of open source software projects, by analyzing 3,196 software games over twelve months. Our main findings are: 1) the aggregate performance of the individuals...

This article measures the impact of public grants, on the technological output of Spanish manufacturing companies, measured by their count of utility models. The paper estimates two models: one for national grants and the other for regional ones, since origin of funds is considered to create a...

This empirical study explores what the determinants for contributing are among individuals who belong to projects created for the development of Open Source Software. Our goal is to verify if current theoretical conjectures actually explain differences in individual contribution behaviour, and...

Firms within a network may interact in two nearly opposite structures: structural holes and network closures. We propose that these two network structures align with different search activities. Structural holes relate to exploratory knowledge search, while closures favor exploitative knowledge...

Academic tourism is a worldwide phenomenon experiencing significant growth. Beyond the benefits for students, host academic institutions obtain direct economic benefits from the mobility program, and the destinations receive indirect spillovers out of the living expenses of the students. The...