We study price discrimination in a monopolistic software market. The monopolist charges different prices for the upgrade version and for the full version. Consumers are heterogeneous in taste for infinitely durable software and there is no resale. We show that price discrimination leads to a...

The rapid emergence of open source software has generated significant debate over its effect on software innovation. The goal of this paper is to explore the impact of open source software innovation on a mixed market also containing proprietary software, and to compare this market with a pure...

A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality: Theory and Practice is an introduction to the theory and practice of measuring poverty and inequality, as well as a user's guide for analyzing income or consumption distribution for any standard household dataset using the World Bank's...

Indian software industry experienced a phenomenal growht throughout 1990s. In spite of worldwide recessionary trends in the software industry, Indian software industry is expected to play a much bigger role in the new millenium for the growht of Indian economy. In the light of the research...

This paper takes a look at the EU Unitary Patent from the United Kingdom's perspective, and considers it both generally and in terms of its impact for software. The paper argues that the EU Unitary Patent is a good step for patents in general and for software protection, but advises that...

Innovation requires sources of novelty, but the challenge is that not all sources lead to innovation, so its value needs to be determined. However, since ways of determining value stem from existing knowledge this often creates barriers to innovation. To understand how people address the...

Many medical devices contain proprietary or off-the-shelf software, which the device relies on for its operation. Like most software, this software often contains errors and vulnerabilities that may lead to malfunction or failures either as a result of the error itself or due to malware...

Numerous studies examine potential facilitators and inhibitors of open source software (OSS) adoption at the firm level. This study represents the first attempt to propose and test a multi-level framework, examining the effects of five country-level variables and two under-explored firm-level...