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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 …
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In 1966, the philosopher Michael Polanyi observed, "We can know more than we can tell... The skill of a driver cannot be replaced by a thorough schooling in the theory of the motorcar; the knowledge I have of my own body differs altogether from the knowledge of its physiology." Polanyi's...
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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 …
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is systematic, substantial, and increasingly dependent on software. This change in the nature of IT innovation has had … software advances than US IT innovation, (b) the innovation performance of Japanese IT firms is increasingly lagging behind … that of their US counterparts, particularly in IT sectors that are more software intensive, and (c) that US IT firms are …
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The impact of stronger intellectual property rights in the software industry is controversial. One means by which … evidence that the extraordinary growth in patenting of software during the 1990s is associated with significant effects on the … financing of software companies. Start-up software companies operating in markets characterized by denser patent thickets see …
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narrowly defined categories of software products during the period 1990-2004. Controlling for demand, market structure, average … of entry by 3-8%, and this relationship intensified following expansions in the patentability of software in the mid-1990 …
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The spectacular growth of the software industry in some non-G7 economies has aroused both interest and concern. This …, examining the long term implications of offshoring of software, we conclude that it is unlikely to pose a long term threat to … American technological leadership. Instead, the U.S. economy will broadly benefit from the growth of new software producing …
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U.S. v. Microsoft and the related state suit filed in 1998 appear finally to have concluded. In a unanimous en banc decision issued in late June 2004, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected challenges to the remedies approved by the District Court in November 2002. The wave of follow-on...
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Though previous studies have noted the role of skilled labor in the growth of the Indian software industry, they have … engineering baccalaureate capacity, on the regional growth of the software exports between 1990 and 2003. We find significant … effect of engineering baccalaureate capacity on the growth of software exports even after controlling for other relevant …
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Aggregate productivity growth in the U.S. has slowed down since the 2000s. We quantify the importance of differential productivity growth across occupations and across industries, and the rise of computers since the 1980s, for the productivity slowdown. Complementarity across occupations and...
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