Seminar Open source software and intellectual property: complements or substitutes? Insights from GitHub Add to calendar 2024-03-20 12:00 2024-03-20 13:30 Europe/Rome Open source software and intellectual property: complements or substitutes? Hybrid Seminar Room 5, Villa Malafrasca and Online YYYY-MM-DD Print Share: Share on Facebook Share on BlueSky Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email Scheduled dates Mar 20 2024 12:00 - 13:30 CET Hybrid, Seminar Room 5, Villa Malafrasca and Online Organised by Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies CDS: The Centre for a Digital Society Tech Join this CDS Talk focusing on data-driven exploration of the GitHub ecosystem and its relationship with patent production Open-source software represents nowadays an essential building block for many products and services. Open communities such as GitHub stimulate interesting debate around the future of Innovation processes and relationships with intellectual property. In this framework, some puzzling questions emerge, such as the advantages of organisations sharing code and the investment of resources into projects which do not provide compensation and on which they have a relatively low level of agency. This session will delve into this topic by empirically showing the existence of complementarities between open-source software and traditional intellectual property regimes in the production of innovation. By challenging the conventional view about their inherent incompatibility, novel insights will be offered to reconsider the functions and roles of the existing patent system.