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Business and financial method patents, innovation, and policy
Hall, Bronwyn H. - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2010
Two court decisions in the 1990s are widely viewed as having opened the door to a flood of business method and financial patents at the US Patent and Trademark Office, and to have also impacted other patent offices around the world. A number of scholars, both legal and economic, have critiqued...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615252
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Financial Patenting in Europe
Hall, Bronwyn H.; Thoma, Grid; Torrisi, Salvatore - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2010
We take a first look at financial patents at the European Patent Office (EPO). As is the case at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the number of financial patents in Europe has increased significantly in parallel with significant changes in payment and financial systems. Scholars have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615254
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Entry and Survival in the US Software Market: International Linkages, Technology Competences and Firm Experience
Giarratana, Marco S.; Torrisi, Salvatore - KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and … - 2009
This paper examines entry and survival in the US software market of a sample of firms based in India, Ireland and … registration of software trademarks in the US. Trademark renewals and new trademark applications trace firm survival. Our analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683431
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Skill, division of labor and performance in collective inventions: Evidence from open source software
Giuri, Paola; Ploner, Matteo; Rullani, Francesco; … - KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and … - 2009
draws on a large sample of projects registered at Sourceforge.net, the world’s largest incubator of open source software …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683434
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Business Method Patents, Innovation, and Policy
Hall, Bronwyn H. - Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER), … - 2003
The trickle of business method patents issued by the United States Patent Office became a flood after the State Street Bank decision in 1998. Many scholars, both legal and economic, have critiqued both the quality of these patents and the decision itself. This paper discusses the likely impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010843467
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Business and financial method patents, innovation, and policy
Hall, Bronwyn H. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010
Two court decisions in the 1990s are widely viewed as having opened the door to a flood of business method and financial patents at the US Patent and Trademark Office, and to have also impacted other patent offices around the world. A number of scholars, both legal and economic, have critiqued...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712047
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Financial Patenting in Europe
Hall, Bronwyn H.; Thoma, Grid; Torrisi, Salvatore - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010
We take a first look at financial patents at the European Patent Office (EPO). As is the case at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the number of financial patents in Europe has increased significantly in parallel with significant changes in payment and financial systems. Scholars have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712119
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Technology and Education: Computers, Software, and the Internet
Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401697
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Links between multinational firms and domestic firms: A comparison of the software industry in India, Ireland and Israel
Giarratana, Marco; Pagano, Alessandro; Torrisi, Salvatore - 2003
This paper aims to analyze the role of multinational corporations (MNCs) in the development of the software industry in … these countries. The study is centred on software production and IT-related services - software development, chip design and … analysis leads to two final conclusions. First, it shows that the evolution of software activities and the role of MNCs vary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328460
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Open source software: From open science to new marketing models. An enquiry into the economics and management of open source software
Giuri, Paola; Rocchetti, Gaia; Torrisi, Salvatore - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328564