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Burning the ships : intellectual property and the transformation of Microsoft /

At the start of this decade, Microsoft was on the defensive--beset on all sides by anti-trust suits and costly litigation, and viewed by many in the technology industry as a monopolist and market bully. How was it going to survive and succeed in the emerging new era of "open innovation," w...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Phelps, Marshall
Autres auteurs: Kline, David, 1950-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, ©2009.
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Résumé:At the start of this decade, Microsoft was on the defensive--beset on all sides by anti-trust suits and costly litigation, and viewed by many in the technology industry as a monopolist and market bully. How was it going to survive and succeed in the emerging new era of "open innovation," where collaboration and cooperation between firms, rather than market conquest, would be the keystones of success?. This was the challenge facing Microsoft founder and Chairman Bill Gates. But "like Cortez burning his ships at the shores of the New World," Gates decided to embrace the change.
Description:Includes index.
Description matérielle:1 online resource
ISBN:9780470494080
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