A significant amount of software development is being outsourced to countries such as India. Many Indian software firms … have applied for and received quality certifications like the ISO9001, and the number of quality certified software firms … has steadily increased. Despite its growing popularity among Indian software developers, there is very little systematic …

Though previous studies have noted the role of skilled labor in the growth of the Indian software industry, they have … engineering baccalaureate capacity, on the regional growth of the software exports between 1990 and 2003. We find significant … effect of engineering baccalaureate capacity on the growth of software exports even after controlling for other relevant …

same time period. It does not appear that concentrated ownership in India is entirely associated with the ills that the … software industry, we find that concentrated ownership persists in a privately successful and socially useful way. Since this …

We argue that the intrinsic inefficiency of proprietary software has historically created a space for alternative … institutions that provide software as a public good. We discuss several sources of such inefficiency, focusing on one that has not … software must make complementary investments, when the return on such investments depends on future cooperation of the software …

There has been a recent surge of interest in open source software development, which involves developers at many … exploration of the economics of open source software. We highlight the extent to which labor economics, especially the literature …

is systematic, substantial, and increasingly dependent on software. This change in the nature of IT innovation has had … software advances than US IT innovation, (b) the innovation performance of Japanese IT firms is increasingly lagging behind … that of their US counterparts, particularly in IT sectors that are more software intensive, and (c) that US IT firms are …

The impact of stronger intellectual property rights in the software industry is controversial. One means by which … extraordinary growth in patenting of software during the 1990s is associated with significant effects on the financing of software … companies. Start-up software companies operating in markets characterized by denser patent thickets see their initial …

narrowly defined categories of software products during the period 1990-2004. Controlling for demand, market structure, average … of entry by 3-8%, and this relationship intensified following expansions in the patentability of software in the mid-1990 …

The spectacular growth of the software industry in some non-G7 economies has aroused both interest and concern. This …, examining the long term implications of offshoring of software, we conclude that it is unlikely to pose a long term threat to … American technological leadership. Instead, the U.S. economy will broadly benefit from the growth of new software producing …