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Knowledge Transfer in R&D Outsourcing (and Linux - Vs - Windows)

Overview Why did Microsoft not hire all those smart programmers who ended up developing Linux through the internet? Because the value of the information about its operating system that Microsoft should have transferred to any of them to render their productive would have been too high compared to their expected individual contribution, so that after writing contract with Microsoft the typical developer would have run away to sell the acquired knowledge on the market. On the other hand, knowledge transfer in R&D outsourcing is not always so critical, and for example in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries research contracts are extensively used, usually in the context of a long term relationship between firm and innovator.

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Publisher	University of Palermo	File Format	PDF
Date Published	November 2003
Format	White Papers
Topics	Linux - Open Source, Windows NT - 2000 - 2003, Linux Server OS

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