The paper analyses the birth of the Encryption Software Industry (ESI), a new niche in the software industry. Using a …

This paper aims to analyze the role of multinational corporations (MNCs) in the development of the software industry in … these countries. The study is centred on software production and IT-related services - software development, chip design and … analysis leads to two final conclusions. First, it shows that the evolution of software activities and the role of MNCs vary …

We provide a first empirical attempt at understanding the scale and type of skilled migration from the Indian software … software firms in India. The results are not generally consistent with an adverse or brain drain story but provide a more … adverse. There is some evidence of associated wage pressure at the height of the software boom in the late 1990s. But there is …

There is considerable debate regarding the use of intellectual property rights (IPR) to spur innovation in the software … developing a growth optimal mixture of open source and closed source software. This optimal scenario is then used as a basis to … examine the co-existence of open and closed source software within various institutional frameworks ranging from no protection …

herausgearbeitet. Gleichwohl konnten sich weltweit erfolgreiche Sub-Sektoren etablieren: die Business-software-Industrie in Deutschland … und die Game-software-Industrie in Japan. Wir gehen in diesem Beitrag den Ursachen hierfür nach und berücksichtigen dabei … software industry, as it has been shown for Germany and Japan since the mid-1990s. Nevertheless, sub-sectors with worldwide …