Open source software as digital platforms to innovate

IF 2.3 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-07-24 DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107109

Sergio Petralia

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Abstract

This article provides evidence that organizations routinely leverage Open Source Software (OSS) infrastructure to innovate. It does so by showing that they tend to synchronize both activities, based on an analysis of the timing of patent filings and OSS submissions using a novel database that links two decades of contributions to 98 of the most popular OSS projects with patent filings in the United States for 1556 organizations. These organizations represent the 26.6 % of all patents granted and the 48 % of all OSS contributions to these projects over the period. The results show that this synchronization has intensified over time, predominantly occurs in projects governed by permissive licensing structures, and extends beyond contributions made to open-source projects where the contributing entity holds ownership or control.

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开源软件作为数字化创新平台

本文提供了组织经常利用开放源码软件（OSS）基础设施进行创新的证据。它通过显示他们倾向于同步这两种活动，基于对专利申请和OSS提交时间的分析，使用一个新的数据库，该数据库将20年来对98个最流行的OSS项目的贡献与美国1556个组织的专利申请联系起来。在此期间，这些组织代表了所有授权专利的26.6%和对这些项目的所有OSS贡献的48%。结果表明，这种同步随着时间的推移而加强，主要发生在由许可许可结构管理的项目中，并且扩展到对开源项目的贡献之外，其中贡献实体拥有所有权或控制权。

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

3.80

自引率

9.10%

发文量

392

期刊介绍： The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization is devoted to theoretical and empirical research concerning economic decision, organization and behavior and to economic change in all its aspects. Its specific purposes are to foster an improved understanding of how human cognitive, computational and informational characteristics influence the working of economic organizations and market economies and how an economy structural features lead to various types of micro and macro behavior, to changing patterns of development and to institutional evolution. Research with these purposes that explore the interrelations of economics with other disciplines such as biology, psychology, law, anthropology, sociology and mathematics is particularly welcome.