literature shows that innovation capabilities have emerged in the software cluster of Bangalore in India. This report asks … whether and how the adoption of open business models in OECD countries had an influence on the rise of innovative software … services in Bangalore. This requires detailed research on both the demand side and the supply side of outsourced software …

In this paper, we empirically investigate the dynamics of the marginal propensity to pirate for computer software. We …

The rivalry between developers of open source and proprietary software encourages open source developers to court users … may choose liberal license terms such as those of the Berkeley Software Distribution as proprietary developers will then … find it easier to adopt her standard in their products. If she wants to promote the use of open source software per se, she …