The economic analyses of software piracy typically rely on the simplifying assumption that the product is offered by a … single producer. We argue that a realistic description of the software market and associated economic aspects of software … piracy might be also captured by studying competition between software developers. Using an illegal version of software …

“Software platforms are the invisible engines that have created, touched, or transformed nearly every major industry … for the enduring principles it lays out; for the lessons taught by software platforms that transformed the economy from …

This study examines the efficiency of tools for fighting software piracy in the conditional distributions of software … piracy. Our paper examines software piracy in 99 countries for the period 1994-2010, using contemporary and non …-contemporary quantile regressions. The intuition for modelling distributions contingent on existing levels of software piracy is that the …

This article examines the role of 'continuations' (procedural revisions of patent applications) in software patents and … analyze data on continuations in software or any other patent class, providing information on the effects of 1995 changes in … continuations grew steadily during 1987-1995, with particularly rapid growth in software patenting. Sharp reversals in these growth …

Open source software development may be superior to proprietary development because the open source organizational form … founder of a software project to choose the open source form even though doing so foregoes potential profits, and this effect … is magnified when there is an existing competing closed source project. The types of software best suited to open source …

This paper develops an inductive theory of the open source software innovation process by focusing on the creation of … particularly interested in the strategies and processes by which new people join the existing community of software developers and … how they initially contribute code. Analyzing date from multiple sources on the Freenet software development process, we …

In the last 20 years, the expenditure share of prepackaged software in the national output has grown. The large number … of characteristics in computer software make hedonic regression techniques impractical for purposes of controlling for … values for various prepackaged computer software titles and categories sold in Canada from January 1996 to June 2000. Quality …

Software vulnerabilities represent a serious threat to cyber security: most cyber-attacks exploit known vulnerabilities …