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Quality Competition or Quality Cooperation? License-Type and the Strategic Nature of Open Source vs. Closed Source Business Models

Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 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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The role of R&D in new firm growth

Stam, Erik; Wennberg, Karl - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

high growth firms, which are key in innovation and entrepreneurship policies. …

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Success in Pharmaceutical Research: The Changing Role of Scale and Scope Economies, Spillovers and Competition

Plotnikova, Tatiana - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 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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Technology, Competition and the Time of Entry: Diversification Patterns in the Development of New Drugs

Plotnikova, Tatiana - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper empirically investigates the determinants of R&D diversification strategies in the drug industry. It enriches the existing literature by proposing to look at diversification factors, which reflect market and technological proximity of an R&D project towards other projects within a...

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