Commercialization of Open Software, Knowledge Flow, and Patents

Open source communities as large-scale paradigm innovations have attracted a lot of attention from scholars. In this paper, we analyze the possible effects that software companies' participation in open source communities can have on corporate patents through knowledge flow theory. Technologica...

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Published inComputational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2022 Vol. 13375; pp. 662 - 672
Main Authors Yu, Shixuan, Yu, Ping
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2022
Springer International Publishing
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Commercialization
Knowledge flow
Open software
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Summary:Open source communities as large-scale paradigm innovations have attracted a lot of attention from scholars. In this paper, we analyze the possible effects that software companies' participation in open source communities can have on corporate patents through knowledge flow theory. Technological innovation resulting from the acquisition of technical knowledge by open source communities shortens the cycle of corporate technological innovation. However, since firms' technological innovation activities can only be imitations and follow-the-flow innovations, they may sometimes cause the failure of firms' technological innovation.
ISBN:3031105214
9783031105210
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-10522-7_45