The standards setting process relies to an increasing degree on successfully integrating up-to-date research and development results. Successful interaction between research and standards can promote further innovation activity and provide important social benefits in general.  read more »

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This study measures the extent to which free music downloads, including the use of P2P file sharing networks, act as substitutes or complements to music purchase in markets for CDs and electronic delivered music (such as MP3).  read more »

Full title : New Moves in 'Legal Jujitsu' to combat the Anticommons.
Mitigating IPR constraints on innovation thru a 'bottom-up' approach to systemic institutional reform.  read more »

In this paper it is argued that the evolution towards using the IPR system in support of ‘open innovation’ processes in services, based upon sharing information, knowledge, ideas and (cultural) expressions, has been led by firms and industry in their strategic interactive or collaborative IP management, rather than led by government policy designing the law and enforcement.  read more »

Using the example of open source software, this study examines the effect of opening up the innovation process on the market value of firms. In a sample of 30 software companies in the time span from 1 January 1999 to 30 April 2007, I find that market valuation is strongly influenced by the business model firms choose for their open innovation efforts.  read more »

This paper argues that due to the endless substitution possibilities open to consumers of cultural products, firms’ competitive advantage rests as much upon positionality and differentiation as upon traditional forms of intellectual property such as copyrights and trademarks.  read more »

When discussing intellectual property performance, patents usually dominate (Tether, 2007). The modes of protection more likely to be used in the creative industries, trademark and design registrations, are under studied and under reported(Schmoch, 2003, Mendonca, 2004). This may lead to a misunderstanding of the innovation impact of the creative industries, due to a bias in the indicators used, and also may be under representing indicators which may be closer to market indicators of innovation activity.  read more »

This research shows that some successful micro design entrepreneurs size limit as a strategic choice from the outset and regard this as beneficial to their firm, optimising operations for this size through the organisation of internal and external resources. The objectives are to achieve design quality and to exploit specialist skills within the work of the studio.  read more »

The article investigates the allocation of collaborative efforts among core developers (maintainers) of open source software by analyzing on-line development traces (logs) for a set of 10 large projects.  read more »