Proprietary versus public domain licensing of software and research products

Research Policy

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 875-892

  Gambardella, Alfonso ^a   Hall, Bronwyn H ^b,c  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Databases; Intellectual property; Open source; Scientific research; Software

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESEARCH;

ECONOMETRIC SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCE; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH;

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY;

EID: 33745467029     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2006.04.004     Document Type: Article

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