Concurrentie, innovatie en intellectuele eigendomsrechten in software markten

Michiel Bijlsma, Paul de Bijl and Viktoria Kocsis

No 181, CPB Document from CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis

Abstract: This study analyzes under which circumstances it may be desirable for the government to stimulate open source software as a response to market failures in software markets. To consider whether policy intervention can increase dynamic efficiency, we discuss the differences between proprietary software and open source software with respect to the incentives to innovate and market failures that may occur. The document proposes guidelines to determine which types of policy intervention may be suitable.Our most important finding is that directly stimulating open source software, e.g. by acting as a lead customer, can improve dynamic efficiency if (i) there is a serious customer lock-in problem, while (ii) to develop the software, there is no need to purchase specific, complementary inputs at a substantial cost, and (iii) follow-on innovations are socially valuable but there are impediments to contractual agreements between developers that aim at realizing such innovations.This publication is in Dutch.

JEL-codes: L17 L52 L86 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-03
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