Profiting from voluntary information spillovers: how users benefit by freely revealing their innovations
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User innovation has been documented as far back as Victorian times and by the late twentieth century was ubiquitous.
“User innovation has been documented as far back as Victorian times. 6 By the late twentieth century it was ubiquitous: Examples include everything from machine tools to windsurfing (Von Hippel, 2004, Harhoff et al. , 2003, Lerner and Tirole, 2002a).”
From Open Source Software: The New Intellectual Property Paradigm (2006) · cites this paper as Harhoff et al. , 2003
Harhoff et al. (2003) present a model with two users who practice in-house innovation and are imperfect competitors selling products that are enhanced by the open source product.
“Harhoff et al. (2003) present a model with two users who practice in-house innovation, and are imperfect competitors selling products that are enhanced by the open source product.”
From Open Source Software: The New Intellectual Property Paradigm (2006) · cites this paper as Harhoff et al. (2003)
Commercial firms are less likely to participate in open source development where competition among them is significant.
“Commercial firms are less likely to participate in open source development where competition among them is significant (von Hippel, 2002, Harhoff et al., 2003).”
From Open Source Software: The New Intellectual Property Paradigm (2006) · cites this paper as Harhoff et al., 2003
If first mover advantages are strong, companies may race to reveal code in order to preempt alternatives and gain a permanent advantage.
“If first mover advantages are strong, companies may even race to reveal code in order to preempt alternatives and gain a permanent advantage (von Hippel, 2002, Harhoff et al., 2003, Varian and Shapiro, 2003, West and Gallagher, 2004).”
From Open Source Software: The New Intellectual Property Paradigm (2006) · cites this paper as Harhoff et al., 2003
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Urban, G. L., & von Hippel, E. (1988) · Management Science · doi:10.1287/mnsc.34.5.569 · Cited by 1,125 · see citing works
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Open Source Software: The New Intellectual Property Paradigm
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“For example, if there is a high degree of competition in the industry then the costs of releasing the code may be large (see von Hippel, 2002; Harhoff et al ., 2003; Henkel, 2005; Maurer and Scotchmer, 2005).”
- Authors
- Harhoff, D., Henkel, J., & von Hippel, E.
- Affiliations
- Centre for Economic Policy Research (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Harhoff, Dietmar
- Venue
- Research Policy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2003-12
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 1753-1769
- ISSN
- 0048-7333 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3125171601
- Cited by
- 772
- References
- 1
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- FWCI
- 117.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Locations
- Research Policy (publishedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (acceptedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Digital Platforms and Economics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management of Technology and Innovation › Intellectual Property and Patents
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Open Source Software Innovations
- Keywords
- voluntary disclosure, innovation spillovers, end users, user innovation, proprietary information, diffusion of innovations, game-theoretic model, product and process innovation
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