About my research My main research topics are open innovation and digital economics dealing with both managerial and market-based aspects. My work explores how new productive activities driven by external – non commercial – players may lead to valuable outcomes for traditional – potentially for-profit – players. For this purpose I study the market-based benefits that traditional productive entities may derive from surrounding – alternative – activities and the organizational mechanisms to be set up to reach such profitable outcomes. I am thus interested in measuring the impact of community-based initiatives led by atypical productive players on the valuation of productive activities at both private – commercial – and public – collective – levels. Focusing on the cases of open source software development and file-sharing activities, my results show that cooperative participation patterns between traditional productive entities and new community-based – user-driven – organizations are likely to deliver variable outcomes to both of them. As such, the so-called 'open innovation' model enables players to mutually benefit from the reshape of the industrial landscape it generates, whether it deals with legal or 'outlaw' sources of innovation. Such a model nevertheless requires the setting up of organizational readjustments for sustainable gains to be derived from the 'open' paradigm shift. Through both a managerial and market-based lens, the goal of my current research is to better understand (1) the microstructures of community-based innovative organizations, (2) the conditions for which cooperation dynamics provide mutual benefits to both commercial and non-commercial organizations, (3) the suitability of the business models that are likely to emerge from such cooperation patterns, and (4) the shifting role of intellectual property rights in this framework.
Research interests Industrial Organization, Innovation Economics, Economics of the Internet, Development Economics
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