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strengthening, more particularly in software and business methods areas because these informational goods could be viewed as generic … assets in digital economy and have a key role for Internet development.The objective of the second part, is to stress on … determinant IP factor. We would like to explore the new use of IP in setting standards in Internet and investigate if the old …
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This paper has the objective of measuring the market power of Microsoft in the software industry. We develop a two tier …
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The software industry is changing as a result of the rising influence both of packaged and of Free/Libre/Open Source … Software (FLOSS), but the change trajectory of the industry is still not well understood. This article aims to contribute to … clarifying software industry evolution through a longitudinal study, using Industry Change Trajectory Theory to explain and …
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The software industry is changing as a result of the rising influence both of packaged and of Free/Libre/Open Source … Software (FLOSS), but the change trajectory of the industry is still not well understood. This article aims to contribute to … clarifying software industry evolution through a longitudinal study, using Industry Change Trajectory Theory to explain and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010549071
: Free/libre or open-source software (FLOSS) is nowadays produced not only by individual benevolent developers but, in … that, beside factors like the importance of software as a core competence of the firm, the role of users on the related … empirical stylized facts drawn from the recent trends in the software industry …
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Developing countries, and particularly, those with a growing technological capacity, expect foreign technology transfers to increase when strengthening their intellectual property protection (IPR) rights. This paper evaluates empirically the impact of IPR on disembodied knowledge trade. It...
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The paper analyzes the interplay between technology diffusion and patent law. We develop a dynamic model where initial adoptions generate learning spillovers that reduce the cost of subsequent adoptions. In this setting, we contrast technology diffusion paths under competitive supply, subsidized...
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The aim of this paper is to focus on the emerging situation in which open source software is nowadays produced not only …
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Several recent cases judged by the Court of Justice of the European Communities (the Court) have raised interesting issues related to the possibility for operators of food chains to use national quality signs to indicate territory of origin, which are different from the regulatory European...
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This article deals with the impact of legislation in the seed sector on incentives for variety creation. The first category of rules consists in intellectual property rights and is intended to address a problem of sequential innovation and R&D investments. The second category concerns commercial...
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