Is Open Source software about innovation? Collaborations with the Open Source community and innovation performance of software entrepreneurial ventures
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چکیده
Practitioners generally assert that collaborations with the Open Source software (OSS) community enable software entrepreneurial ventures to achieve superior innovation performance. Nonetheless, to the best of our knowledge, scholars have never tested this assertion. This paper takes a first step towards filling this gap. First, based on the high-tech entrepreneurship literature and the OSS research stream, we illustrate why collaborations with the OSS community are expected to exert a positive effect on entrepreneurial ventures’ innovation performance. Then, we provide a rigorous quantitative analysis of the innovation impact of these collaborations using a sample of 199 Italian entrepreneurial ventures. Our econometric estimates indicate that entrepreneurial ventures collaborating with the OSS community exhibit superior innovation performance compared with their non-collaborating peers.
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