Beefing IT Up for Your Investor? Engagement with Open Source Communities, Innovation, and Startup Funding: Evidence from GitHub

The authors thank the editor and anonymous reviewers for their valuable insight and advice. The authors thank Ilia Azizi, Kimon Protopapas, and Richie Zitomer for excellent research assistance. Many thanks go to Bruno Cassiman, Celine Fei, Matt Higgins, David Hsu, Jorge Guzman, Harsh Ketkar, Rem Koning, Tobias Kretschmer, Frank Nagle, Melissa Perri, and Toby Stuart for advice on drafts. This manuscript benefited from many helpful comments provided at CEAR, the Digital Economy Workshop, the Digital Initiative Workshop, MAD Conference, the Munich Summer Institute, SCECR, the Strategy Science Conference, and the West Coast Research Symposium. The authors are grateful for the suggestions provided by Karim Lakhani and members of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at the onset of this work, as well as participants of seminars at the CAS Platform Seminar Munich, Copenhagen Business School, Cornell University, HEC Paris, the Intellectual Property & Innovation Virtual seminar series, LUISS Guido Carli University, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, the National Bureau of Economic Research Productivity Seminar, the Strategy Unit Seminar at Harvard Business School, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Warwick University, and the Workshop for Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation. The authors are listed in alphabetical order.