Free Revealing How Firms Can Profit From Being Open
The concept of “free revealing” describes the continually growing practice of companies that release results of their innovation processes to the public rather than patenting them or keeping them secret. Using the example of corporate OSS engagement, Oliv
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GABLER EDITION WISSENSCHAFT Innovation und Entrepreneurship Herausgegeben von Professor Dr. Nikolaus Franke, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Professor Dietmar Harhoff, Ph.D., Universität München, und Professor Dr. Joachim Henkel, Technische Universität München
Innovative Konzepte und unternehmerische Leistungen sind für Wohlstand und Fortschritt von entscheidender Bedeutung. Diese Schriftenreihe vereint wissenschaftliche Arbeiten zu diesem Themenbereich. Sie beschreiben substanzielle Erkenntnisse auf hohem methodischen Niveau.
Oliver Alexy
Free Revealing How Firms Can Profit From Being Open
With a foreword by Prof. Dr. Joachim Henkel
GABLER EDITION WISSENSCHAFT
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Dissertation Technische Universität München, 2008
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Foreword Over the last decade, the commercial world has more and more embraced open source software such as the Linux operating system. What started out as an ideological movement for “Free Software” and as a hobbyists’ thing has largely turned into a mainstream part of the IT industry. By 2008, even the long-time open source critic Microsoft has created two open source licenses, and it comes as little surprise when Google releases the complete mobile operating system stack of its Android phone as open source. Yet, how exactly open source software and in particular the open source style of software development are integrated into commercial enterprises is far from being understood. Research into open source software and open innovation more broadly only just starts to address these issues. But these questions are of obvious importance for firms considering to launch or extend their open source engagement, and of academic interest to scholars studying open innovation processes. With this book, Oliver Alexy makes a significant contribution. Based on thorough empirical work and a deep understanding of the field, he addresses a number of key questions. How do firms decide if to launch an open source activity? Does the capita
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