A supply-side story for a threshold model: Endogenous growth of open collaborative innovation communities
Francesco Rullani, Guido Carli, Lorenzo Zirulia · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2011
The study of social institutions producing and diss eminating knowledge has mainly concentrated on two main concepts: Science and Technology . This paper examines a recent institutional form that seems not to resemble either of the other two; that is, knowledge-intensive communities, where individuals freely exchange knowledge through information and communication technology. Using free and open source software as an example, we develop a model where this phenomenon is confronted with Technology with respect to its ability to attract researchers.