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Open source software as digital platforms to innovate
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.
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.