Cooperation between rivals: informal know-how trading
In: Research policy: policy, management and economic studies of science, technology and innovation, Band 16, Heft 6, S. 291-302
ISSN: 0048-7333
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In: Research policy: policy, management and economic studies of science, technology and innovation, Band 16, Heft 6, S. 291-302
ISSN: 0048-7333
World Affairs Online
In: Research Policy, Band 32, Heft 7, S. 1199-1215
In: Organization science, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 209-223
ISSN: 1526-5455
Currently, two models of innovation are prevalent in organization science. The "private investment" model assumes returns to the innovator result from private goods and efficient regimes of intellectual property protection. The "collective action" model assumes that under conditions of market failure, innovators collaborate in order to produce a public good. The phenomenon of open source software development shows that users program to solve their own as well as shared technical problems, and freely reveal their innovations without appropriating private returns from selling the software. In this paper, we propose that open source software development is an exemplar of a compound "private-collective" model of innovation that contains elements of both the private investment and the collective action models and can offer society the "best of both worlds" under many conditions. We describe a new set of research questions this model raises for scholars in organization science. We offer some details regarding the types of data available for open source projects in order to ease access for researchers who are unfamiliar with these, and also offer some advice on conducting empirical studies on open source software development processes.
In: De Gruyter Studies in Organization, 13
World Affairs Online
In: Research Policy, Band 50, Heft 8, S. 104068