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Here is the paper they cite: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1502864

One of the authors of the research paper has a lot of work on innovation and open source in general:

http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/papers.htm

Do I ever hate the SSRN web site. Damned thing never actually produces the file for me.

Thanks for the link to the author's site. He has a non SSRN link to the paper on the following page; the link text is the "(PDF)" that follows the SSRN link he first cites.

http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/papers/evh-08.htm

Thanks for that - I'd found a free version via scholar.google.com

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