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 …

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 …

and informal sector manufacturing firms in India, Indonesia, and Mexico, we document three facts. First, while there are a … from expanding. Third, we examine regulatory and tax notches in India, Indonesia, and Mexico of the sort often thought to …

) promotion in India to address this question. For 60 years, SSI promotion in India focused on reserving certain products for …, productivity, and wages of dismantling India's SSI reservations. We exploit variation in the timing of de-reservation across …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …