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Open SourceSoftware andInnovation
Alexia GaudeulGSBC, Jena
August 3, 2009.3rd Jena Summer Academy on “Innovation and Uncertainty”.
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OSS = Open Source SoftwareOS = Open Source
Outline of thepresentation
Motivation.
Main areas of study: theories of public goods and of sequential innovation.
What is innovation in the software industry, and howmuch is there?
OSS: a public good subject to free riding.
Is OSS a threat to innovation?
Patterns of cohabitation of OS and proprietary softwareinnovation.
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Note:
Software is protected by copyright,only very few software processes arepatented (“An Empirical Look at SoftwarePatents”, Bessen and Hunt, 2004).
Motivation
Practice: Development of new software is a very complex process, not well understood.
Policy: How to encourage innovation in the production of information goods.
Theory: OSS is a challenge to the established theories of innovation.
Free revelation of source code rather than “closed”innovation protected by patents and trademarks.
No separation between innovator and users.
Works even though models of collective innovationpredict it would not.
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