
The European Commission's
enterprise and industry department just released the
final draft [.pdf] of what could be the biggest academic interdisciplinary study on the economic/innovative impacts of FLOSS. The study was done by an international consortium, led by the United Nations University/University of
Maastricht's department of innovation;
UNU-MERIT for short. The study was prepared by senior researcher
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, who did a tremendous amount of FLOSS studies the last few years, amongst them on
FLOSSpols and
FLOSSWorld.