This article sets out to analyze both intellectual property laws and tax systems as applied to computer software. It analyzes software within intellectual property's established doctrinal framework, a difficult task due to the fact that software can encompass some combination of the traits of...

Computer Algebra Systems can be combined with conventional teaching methods to provide students a more "hands-on" understanding of economic concepts. Maxima and its interface wxMaxima are open source (and therefore zero-price) alternatives to expensive programs like Maple and Mathematica. This...

В статье рассматриваются особенности формирования и реализации программных бюджетов регионов России. Приводится обоснование актуальности и целесообразности...

The introduction of product upgrades in a competitive environment is commonly observed in the software industry. When introducing a new product, a software vendor may employ behavior-based price discrimination (BBPD) by offering a discount over its market price to entice existing customers of...

The computer software industry is an extreme example of rapid new product introduction. However, many consumers are sophisticated enough to anticipate the availability of upgrades in the future. This creates the possibility that consumers might either postpone purchase or buy early on and never...

Benkler's (2002) model of Commons Based Peer Production (CBPP) has been one of the seminal concepts explaining the economic institutions behind open source software (OSS). In this paper, we first review the impact of the CBPP model in the literature and then investigate its transferability to...

The database is one of the core components of the image information query (IQ) system: all the information involved in the system is stored inside the database. The database is a searchable archive for the data, the processes, and the satellite imagery processing. With the new database structure...

Social software applications such as wikis, blogs or social networks are being increasingly applied in firms. These applications can be used for external communication as well as knowledge management enabling firms to access internal and external knowledge. Firms can optimize customer...