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 …This paper documents a shift in the nature of innovation in the information technology (IT) industry. Using …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 … based on an OSS license. The marginal impact of The Commons on OSS entry is increasing in the cumulativeness of innovation …

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 …

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 …