Profiting From Voluntary Information Spillovers: How Users Benefit By Freely Revealing Their Innovations

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Title	Profiting From Voluntary Information Spillovers: How Users Benefit By Freely Revealing Their Innovations
Publication Type	Journal Article
Year of Publication	2000
Authors	Harhoff, Dietmar, Henkel Joachim, and von Hippel Eric
Date Published	July
Abstract	Software users reveal the code they have written to other users for free. This behavior is contrary to conventional wisdom in economics - but is essential to the functioning of an effective user innovation community. This paper explores conditions under which the free revealing of innovations (code, in the case of OS) pays for innovating users.

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