direction of innovation in that software development is a core part of innovation activities in firms across a wide array of … frequency and nature of software development among firms in Sweden, matched with the Community Innovation Survey (CIS). We find … robust evidence supporting a software-bias in innovation in that software development is associated with a higher likelihood …

This article provides an analysis of a Portuguese decision on the taxation of payments for software.The main questions …

Software is a good with very special economic characteristics. Taking a general definition of software as its starting … and cost structure, the demand, the contestability of software-markets, and the allocative efficiency. In this context it … appears to be reasonable to subsume the various characteristics under the following generic terms: software as a means of data …

variety of applications and services that drive the popularity of software. The first principle focuses on enabling choice … these principles and examines their impact on competition in the cloud computing (“internet software”) environment …

projects. The Collaborative Software Engineering Methodology is presented as a framework that contains mechanisms to support …

explain how and why interoperability is not an isolated policy on compatible software in the Software Directive, but is an a …

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 …

-firm linkages in firm innovation. We test the model by conducting a survey involving 113 Taiwanese software firms. Our data show a …

The presence of an open source software community has provided firms with a non-monetary compensation dimension: the … for the software firm is to determine the optimal extent of this participation by trading off the reduction in the …

Distributing freeware or trialware is a common practice of most publishers in the software market in order to increase … potential users' experience prior to their final purchasing. Third-party rating of new software is an objective quality …-party rating on software sampling. Our results show that freeware is not always a dominant strategy to enhance the users' software …