This paper analyzes the birth of the Encryption Software Industry (ESI), a new market niche in the software industry … established electronic firms like IBM and Motorola to accumulate knowledge in encryption software technology.Empirical evidence …

with these predictions emerges from a 1993 to 2001 panel of 87 firms that owned at least one U.S. software security patent …

draws on a large sample of projects registered at Sourceforge.net, the world’s largest incubator of open source software …