"open" disclosure of innovations, incentives and follow-on reuse: Theory on processes of cumulative innovation and a field experiment in computational biology

Research Policy

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 4-19

  Boudreau, Kevin J ^a   Lakhani, Karim R ^b  

^a LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Disclosures; Incentives; Innovation; Open innovation; Policy; Search

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTATION THEORY; EXPERIMENTS; OPEN SYSTEMS; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; PUBLIC POLICY;

COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CUMULATIVE INNOVATIONS; DISCLOSURES; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; INCENTIVES; OPEN INNOVATION; SEARCH;

INNOVATION;

EID: 84916941714     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2014.08.001     Document Type: Article

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