Arbeitspapier
Who starts with open source? Institutional choice of start-ups in the German ICT sector
We analyze the characteristics of new businesses in the German ICT industry, distinguishing them based on their choice between two IPR regimes: open source software (OSS) or closed source software (CSS). The share of new firms with an OSS-based business model has increased considerably over the last several years. OSS-based firms tend to be smaller (in terms of staff and capital) and experience less shortages of capital. Only older cohorts of OSS-intensive start-ups had more difficulty than their CSS counterparts in convincing potential financiers of their viability, indicating that OSS business models are now well established. We find no evidence that the lower entry barriers for OSS firms are particularly attractive to start-ups with low human capital endowment or to necessity-motivated entrepreneurs.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Jena Economic Research Papers ; No. 2010,049
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
Open Source Products and Markets
Entrepreneurship
Information and Internet Services; Computer Software
- Thema
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new business formation
institutions
open source intellectual property rights
software industry
Unternehmensgründung
Open Source
Geschäftsmodell
IT-Industrie
Softwareindustrie
Deutschland
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Fritsch, Michael
von Engelhardt, Sebastian
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics
- (wo)
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Jena
- (wann)
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2010
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Fritsch, Michael
- von Engelhardt, Sebastian
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics
Entstanden
- 2010
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