Browsing Sloan School of Management by Author "Parker, Geoffrey"

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    • Innovation, Openness, and Platform Control 

      Parker, Geoffrey; Van Alstyne, Marshall (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007-12-31)
      We explore innovation, openness, and the duration of intellectual property protection in markets characterized by platforms and their ecosystems of complementary applications. We find that competition among application ...