This paper documents the increasing importance of software for successful innovation in manufacturing sectors well … firms in the software intensity of their innovative activity. Firms that exhibit a higher level of software intensity … that geographic differences in the abundance of skilled software labor are an important factor in determining sample firms …

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 …

citations, family size and the number of technical fields covered by the patent are modestly informative for value. Software … intellectual property rights argue that software and business methods patents on average are of poor quality and that these patents …

We investigate the value creation or destruction associated with the introduction of software patents in the United … States in two ways. The first looks at the cumulative abnormal returns to Information and Communication Technology (ICT …) firms around the time of important court decisions that impacted software patents, and the second analyzes the relationship …

Open source methods for creating software rely on developers who voluntarily reveal code in the expectation that other … types of inefficiencies and different biases in R&D investment. Open source style of software development remedies a defect …

We present PublicationHarvester, an open-source software tool for gathering publication information on individual life … scientists. The software interfaces with MEDLINE, and allows the end-user to specify up to four MEDLINE-formatted names for each …/editorials, etc.) The software also generates a keywords report at the scientist-year level, using the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH …

Improvements in the software that provides hardware management, user interface and platform functions have played a … components of PC systems so as to keep pace with rapid advances in computer technologies the development of applications software … responsibility for making the interacting components of the PC work together. D. The desire to bundle multiple software features into …

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 …