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Academics

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James Bessen

Boston University
Brian Carver

University of California, Berkeley
Jacques Cremer

Toulouse University
Neil Gandal

Tel Aviv University
Josh Lerner

Harvard University
Robert Merges

University of California, Berkeley
Suzanne Scotchmer

University of California, Berkeley
Marshall Van Alstyne

Boston University

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Open Source

Open source is an approach to the design, development, and distribution of software, offering accessibility to a software’s source code. It is a licensing model of intellectual property.

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Research Articles On This Issue	Author	Year
Access to Knowledge Mobilization and the New Politics of Intellectual Property Law, The	Amy Kapczynski	2008
Brief Survey of the Economics of Open Source Software, A	Neil Gandal and Chaim Fershtman	2011
Coase’s Penguin, or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm	Yochai Benkler	2002
Commercialization of Open Source Software, The: Do Property Rights Still Matter?	Ronald J. Mann	2006
Determinants of Output Per Contributor in Open Source Projects, The: An Empirical Examination	Neil Gandal and Chaim Fershtman	2004
Does Open Source Have Legs?	Wesley Cohen	2005
Dynamics of Open Source Contributors, The	Josh Lerner et al	2006
Dynamics of Open Source Movements	Susan Athey and Glenn Ellison	2006
Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond, The	Jean Tirole	2004
EU's 'Nationalization by Regulation', The	Ronald A. Cass	2009
General Public Licensing and the Intensity of Aggregate Software Development	Maggie X. Chen and Keith Maskus	2007
Government Policy Toward Open Source Software	James Bessen et al	2002
Government Preferences for Promoting Open-Source Software: A Solution in Search of a Problem	David S. Evans and Bernard Reddy	2002
Historical Reflections: Will the Future of Software Be Open Source?	Martin Campbell-Kelly	2008
How Open is Open Enough? Melding Proprietary and Open Source Platform Strategies	Joel West	2003
How Open Source Software Works: "Free" User-to-User Assistance	Eric Von Hippel and Karim R. Lakhani	2003
Ignorance of Crowds, The		2007
Information Hold-Up, Disclosure Policy, and Career Concerns on the Example of Open Source Software Development	Marc Blatter and Andras Niedermayer	2008
IT Vendor Motivations by Open Source Software Clusters	Marco Iansiti and Gregory L. Richards	2006
Microstructure of Collaboration: The Network of Open Source Software	Chaim Fershtman	2008
Open and Collaborative Research: A New Model for Biomedicine	Arti K. Rai	2004
Open Robotics	M. Ryan Calo	2011
Open Source and Proprietary Software: The Search for a Profitable Middle-Ground	Anne Layne-Farrar et al	2004
Open Source Projects as Horizontal Innovation Networks: By and For Users	Eric Von Hippel	2003
Open Source Software: Free Provision Of Complex Public Goods	James Bessen	2005
Open Source Software: The New Intellectual Property Paradigm	Suzanne Scotchmer and Stephen M. Maurer	2006
Open to Development: Open-Source Software and Economic Development	Julian Morris and Bibek Debroy	2004
Open-Source Software Poses Challenges for Legal and Public Policy	David S. Evans	2003
Optimal Patent Jurisprudence	Scott A. Baker and Claudio Mezzetti	2009
Pragmatism Not Ideology: IBM’s Love Affair with Open Source Software	Martin Campbell-Kelly and Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz	2008
Scope of Open Source Licensing, The	Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole	2002
Simple Economics of Open Source, The	Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole	2000
Software Patents and Open Source: The Battle Over Intellectual Property Rights	Anne Layne-Farrar and David S. Evans	2004
Technology Neutrality and Government Policy: A Pointless Debate on Open Source Software (OSS)	Bibek Debroy	2006
Understanding Change Contribution Patterns in Open Source and Commercial Software Projects	V. S. Arunachalam et al	2005
Wealth without Markets	Lior Strahilevitz	2007
Who Chooses Open Source Software?	Mark Lemley and Ziv Shafir	2009