Innovation, openness, and platform control

Management Science

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2018, Pages 3015-3032

  Parker, Geoffrey ^a   Van Alstyne, Marshall ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bundling; Intellectual property; Open innovation; Platforms; R D spillovers; Sequential innovation; Standards setting organizations; Two sided markets; Two sided networks

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEMS; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

BUNDLING; OPEN INNOVATION; PLATFORMS; SEQUENTIAL INNOVATIONS; TWO-SIDED MARKETS;

GROWTH RATE;

EID: 85047951547     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2017.2757     Document Type: Article

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