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Developing and harnessing software technology in the South: The roles of China, India, Brazil and South Africa
Ojo, Adegboyega; Janowski, Tomasz; Basanya, Rilwan; … - 2008
Philippines, Brazil, China, and Indonesia have emerged as important global players in the offshore software services industry …
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Technological regimes in the Brazilian manufacturing industry: An empirical investigation
Vieira, Vinicius; Resende, Marcelo - 2013
The paper aims at assessing technological regimes in the context of the Brazilian manufacturing industry along the 2000-2005 period. The industries were classified in terms of SM-I and SM-II technological regimes by means of multivariate statistical methods based on variable approximating...
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Cultures of Innovation of the African Poor. Common Roots, Shared Traits, Joint Prospects? On the Articulation of Multiple Modernities in African Societies and Black Diasporas in La...
Kohnert, Dirk - 2006
The globalized Western culture of innovation, as propagated by major aid institutions, does not necessarily lead to … empowerment or improvement of the well-being of the stakeholders. On the contrary, it often blocks viable indigenous innovation … cultures. In African societies and African Diasporas in Latin America, cultures of innovation largely accrue from the informal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275975
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B2C - bubble to cluster: the dot.com boom, spin-off entrepreneurship, and regional industry evolution
Buenstorf, Guido; Fornahl, Dirk - 2006
This article studies entrepreneurial activities emerging out of one of Germany's most prominent dot.com firms: Intershop, a maker of e-commerce software. We show that Intershop spawned at least 30 spin-offs. The majority entered locally, giving rise to a small but growing software cluster and...
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Who starts with open source? Institutional choice of start-ups in the German ICT sector
Fritsch, Michael; von Engelhardt, Sebastian - 2010
We analyze the characteristics of new businesses in the German ICT industry, distinguishing them based on their choice between two IPR regimes: open source software (OSS) or closed source software (CSS). The share of new firms with an OSS-based business model has increased considerably over the...
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Links between multinational firms and domestic firms: A comparison of the software industry in India, Ireland and Israel
Giarratana, Marco; Pagano, Alessandro; Torrisi, Salvatore - 2003
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 electronic devices design, computer and Internet...
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Limited growth opportunities amidst opportunities for growth: An empirical study of the inter-firm linkages of small software firms in India
Ilavarasan, Vigneswara P.; Parthasarathy, Balaji - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 1 (2012), pp. 1-12
Small firms are important to all economies. This is especially true with the rise of the information and communication technologies (ICTs), as the technical characteristics of information goods lower entry barriers for small firms seeking to take advantage of the growing global demand for ICTs....
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The impact of technological and non-technological innovations on firm growth
Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; Martikainen, Olli - 2008
This study investigates the relationship between innovations and firm growth, based on the data of Finnish firms operating in the software industry. We find that in terms of turnover and employment, firms with only technological innovations do not grow more rapidly than other firms. However,...
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Open source software, closed source software or both: impacts on industry growth and the role of intellectual property rights
von Engelhardt, Sebastian; Swaminathan, Sushmita - 2008
There is considerable debate regarding the use of intellectual property rights (IPR) to spur innovation in the software …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273790
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Knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship and opportunities in two Polish industries
Woodward, Richard; Wojnicka, Elçzbieta; Pander, Wojciech - 2012
(Woodward et al., 2012), this working paper presents an analysis of two Sectoral Innovation Systems (Malerba, 2002) in the …
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