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literature shows that innovation capabilities have emerged in the software cluster of Bangalore in India. This report asks … whether and how the adoption of open business models in OECD countries had an influence on the rise of innovative software … services in Bangalore. This requires detailed research on both the demand side and the supply side of outsourced software …
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This study contributes to the understanding of the effects of FDI by illustrating that social networks affect technological learning in the Costa Rican ICT cluster in ways that the literature on technological capabilities failed to capture. It is based on extensive qualitative evidence collected...
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This article presents a method for valuing software based on the income that use of that software is expected to … present value, and the like, are applied, always focusing on the benefits and costs of software. A major issue, not dealt with … in the literature of valuing intangibles, is that software is continually upgraded. Applying depreciation schedules is …
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source projects. Increasing firms’ participation in the development of open source software (OSS) is generally perceived as a …
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This paper examines one of the most important marketing strategies by software producers on the Internet. That is …
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The rivalry between developers of open source and proprietary software encourages open source developers to court users … may choose liberal license terms such as those of the Berkeley Software Distribution as proprietary developers will then … find it easier to adopt her standard in their products. If she wants to promote the use of open source software per se, she …
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Subject: The education in mathematics, its failure and costs, and how to redesign this market. The political economy of mathematics education. Method: We do not require statistics to show that mathematics education fails but can look at the math itself. Criticism on mathematics itself can only...
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In this paper we contend that – contrary to what argued by a vast part of the literature – computer software and, more … concerned, this means that innovative activities in computer software are characterized by high degrees of interdepen- dencies … appropriate for computer software, as it may decrease both ex-ante incentives to innovation and ex-post efficiency of diffusion …
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In this paper, we empirically investigate the dynamics of the marginal propensity to pirate for computer software. We …
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We present an information good pricing model with persistently heterogeneous consumers and a rising marginal propensity for them to pirate. Three offsetting pricing mechanisms occur: skimming, compressing price changes, and delaying product launch. We identify a novel trade off in piracy's...
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