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 …

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 …

A significant amount of software development is being outsourced to countries such as India. Many Indian software firms … have applied for and received quality certifications like the ISO9001, and the number of quality certified software firms … has steadily increased. Despite its growing popularity among Indian software developers, there is very little systematic …

smaller sample is that projects that involve software developed in a corporate setting are likely to have more restrictive …

software appear initially puzzling to an economist. As we have acknowledge, our ability to answer confidently many of the …

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 …

open source software (OSS) community influences new OSS product entry by start-up software firms. In particular, we analyze … size of The Commons related to a software market increase the rate of entry in the market by start-ups using a new product …

of the public knowledge good (science or research software or database) is sub-optimal. Then we demonstrate that if "lead … the General Public License (GPL) used in the provision of open source software is one of such mechanisms. Our results are … then applied to the specific setting where the knowledge being produced is software or a database that will be used by …