Profiting from voluntary information spillovers: How users benefit by freely revealing their innovations
Empirical studies of innovation have found that end users frequently develop important product and process innovations. Defying conventional wisdom on the negative effects of uncompensated spillovers, innovative users also often openly reveal their innovations to competing users and to manufacturers...
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | en_US |
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Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2011
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66264 |