The study examines the effect of software piracy on inclusive human development in 11 African countries for which software piracy data is available for the period 2000-2010. The empirical evidence is based on instrumental variable panel Fixed Effects (FE) and Tobit models in order to control for...

We estimate the effects of industrial localization on the spatial persistence of employment in the software industry. Locations with an initial concentration of software employment retain an excess number of employees, beyond that expected from job turnover and job persistence at the...

In this article we lay out requirements for an experimental market software for financial and economic research. We then discuss existing solutions. Finally, we introduce GIMS, an open source market software which is characterized by extensibility and ease of use, while offering nearly all of...

Over the last 20 years, open source development has become an integral part of the software industry and a key component of the innovation strategies of all major IT providers. Against this backdrop, this paper seeks to develop a systematic overview of open source communities and their...

Economic laboratory experiments are often used for testing real-world economic mechanisms, such as multi-item auctions and multi-contract cost sharing. Ensuring that participants understand these increasingly complex tasks is crucial in order to maintain control, the reproducibility, and the...

The EUPL is the only free open source software licence with equal legal value across the EU and in 23 EU languages. It reconciles the strength of the copyleft licence with interoperability needs of the modern software.

This report provides a technical description of the modelling and assumptions of the Accident Damage Analysis Module (ADAM) software application, which has been recently developed by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission (EC) to assess physical effects of an industrial...

The study provides market figures (volume and growth) for the European software and software-based services (SSBS) market (EU28 as a whole, as well as the key countries France, Germany, UK and Italy) and present the major players (top 10 in the EU28 and worldwide). In addition, it provides...

The software industry is one of the most dynamic industries. But with new opportunities has come a range of challenges that software companies must meet. These challenges are specific and varied for European companies, but have to be evaluated in the context of the global ecosystem that makes up...