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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...
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mode of production exist that is based on the contributions of many software programmerswithout providing any direct monetary incentives for them? And how can these programmerscoordinate their actions without relying on either the guidance of the price mechanism or thedirection through a...
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In this paper, I explore the circumstances under which innovation processes without secrecyor intellectual property …
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In this paper explores the conditions favorable to user innovationnetworks are often present in the economy.
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commons of public OSS code—that is, on the“giving” side of this open innovation process. In contrast, research on … thecorresponding “receiving” side of the innovation process is scarce. We address thisgap, studying how existing OSS code is reused and …
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&D strategies. Most of the existing research on the phenomenon of open innovation focuses on its interorganizational aspects. In …
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In this paper, I describe and analyze the phenomenon of informal development collaborationbetween firms in the field of embedded Linux, a type of open source software. Toexplain the observed phenomenon of voluntary revealing, I develop a duopoly model ofquality competition. The central...
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An important and intriguing aspect of e-entrepreneurship is theformation of new ventures in the domain of open source software (OSS).Previous research on these ventures has primarily looked at the design ofbusiness models. The purpose of this paper is to explore how three keychallenges of...
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Motivation of this paper is to discuss that the open source model of innovation does not only seem practical in the … software industry, but also in various other industrial contexts. We develop the concept of Open Source Innovation (OSI) as a … the literature, we conclude that it is an innovation model in its own right, deserving more attention and research. We …
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the Open Source Innovation (OSI) model. OSI exhibits main differences to other related models and concepts such as the … private-collective model, commons-based peer production, R&D networks and is therefore an innovation model in its own right …
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