The open source movement: Key research questions

Josh Lerner; Jean Tirole

doi:10.1016/S0014-2921(01)00124-6

The open source movement: Key research questions

Josh Lerner^*, Jean Tirole

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Abstract

The paper analyzes the incentives of individual programmers and of commercial companies to participate in open source projects. While these incentives are in our opinion well accounted for by the economic paradigm, much empirical and theoretical work is still needed to answer the many interesting questions suggested by the open source movement.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	819-826
Number of pages	8
Journal	European Economic Review
Volume	45
Issue number	4-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0014-2921(01)00124-6
State	Published - May 2001
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Research and development
Software
Technological innovation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Finance
Economics and Econometrics

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