: 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 counteracting the job losses accompanying the parent firm's drastic …

Software technology is gaining prominence in national information technology (IT) strategies due to its huge potential …, delivery of public services and engagement of citizens. In growing numbers of developing countries, software technology is also … Philippines, Brazil, China, and Indonesia have emerged as important global players in the offshore software services industry …

between two IPR regimes: open source software (OSS) or closed source software (CSS). The share of new firms with an OSS …

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 …