The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond

By B. Kahin, Dominique Foray. 2006

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Open innovation: State of the art and future perspectives (2011, background): “Devoting scarce resources to innovation and then to give away the outcome for free seems highly unlikely for economists (e.g., Lerner and Tirole, 2005; Kogut and Metiu, 2001), but in some cases it makes good economic sense (von Hippel and von Krogh, 2006).”
Information quality work organization in wikipedia (2008, unknown): “(See Benkler, 2002; Crowston & Scozzi, 2004; Lerner & Tirole, 2004; and Scacchi, 2005 for reviews of these issues in the case of free and open source software [FOSS].)”
Contracting Over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge: Intellectual Property and Academic Publication (2017, unknown): “, on the implications of intrinsic preferences to publish on wages (Stern, 2004) and the norms of open source communities (Lerner and Tirole, 2005).”
The impact of membership overlap on the survival of online communities (2013, methodology): “Weber [27] and Lerner and Tirole [17] use a cost-benefit framework for member motivation.”
What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation (2010, unknown): “…movement appear to give away creative output " for free, " although it is not clear what exactly the underlying motives are and whether any nonpecuniary motives observed in open source also matter in R&D more generally (Lakhani and von Hippel 2003, Lerner and Tirole 2005, Roberts et al. 2006).”