Cumulative innovation, open source, and distance to frontier

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 1875-1920 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luigi Balletta ◽  
Antonio Tesoriere
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Cumulative Innovation ◽  
Distance To Frontier

scholarly journals Can Open Source projects succeed when the producers are not users? Lessons from the data processing field1

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 113-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Jullien ◽  
Karine Roudaut
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Data Processing ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Information Goods ◽  
Cumulative Innovation ◽  
Production Of Information

Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) proposes an original way to solve the incentive dilemma for the production of information goods, based on von Hippel (1988)’s user-as-innovator principle: as users benefit from innovation, they have incentive to produce it, and as they can expect cumulative innovation on their own proposition, they have incentive to share it. But what is the incentive for producers when they are not users? We discuss this question via a qualitative study of FLOSS projects in “algorithm-based industries”. We find that in this case producers hardly participate in such projects.

Open Source

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fadi P. Deek ◽  
James A. M. McHugh
Keyword(s):  
Open Source

Magnifico Classifico (mc) mit Open Source: Entwicklung eines Lernkonzeptes

2004 ◽  
Vol 176 (S 1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Harth ◽  
St Zangos ◽  
Wo Schwarz ◽  
Oe Gürvit ◽  
Ma Lorenz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source
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