This paper provides a quantitative study (N = 268) of patterns of free revealing offirm-developed innovations within embedded Linux, a type of open source software (OSS). Ifind that firms, without being obliged to do so, contribute many of their own developmentsback to public embedded Linux...

In this paper the authors explore the incentives that usersmight have to freely reveal their proprietary innovations. They develop agame-theoretic model to explore the effect of these incentives on users´ decisions to reveal or hide their proprietary information.

The existing theory of modularity explains how modular designs create value. We extend thistheory to address value appropriation. A product or process design that is modular with respect tointellectual property (IP) allows firms to better capture value in situations where knowledge andvalue...