This study extends the literature on fighting software piracy by investigating how Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs …) regimes interact with technology to mitigate software piracy when existing levels of piracy are considered. Two technology … metrics (internet penetration rate and number of PC users) and six IPRs mechanisms (constitution, IPR law, main IP laws, WIPO …

and direction of innovation in that software development is a core part of innovation activities in firms across a wide …-level survey data on the frequency and nature of software development among firms in Sweden, matched with the Community Innovation … Survey (CIS). We find robust evidence supporting a software-bias in innovation in that software development is associated …

This research-in-progress aims to indentify the salient factors explaining adoption of open source software (OSS), as a … technological innovation. The theoretical background of the paper is based on the technological innovation literature. We choose to … focus on the open ERP case, as it is considered as a promising innovation for firms – especially medium firms – but open ERP …

adequacy of current enforcement tools and strategies. A lack of adequate enforcement tools might well undermine the innovation …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …

further invest in grassroots innovation initiatives, and Network members identified many conditions that would make Kenya the …

economic vitality caused by investments in domestic technology innovation in the formerly integrated national economy, national … innovation Along with the new innovation park infrastructure, the most important job creation strategy that the EDA could … implement is creating the new capital market infrastructure that targets investments to regional innovation opportunities. This …

innovation and a private sector, for-profit business model that implements the ideas on innovation and entrepreneurship …, primarily in metro regional economies. In this column, the organization discusses the definition of innovation economics with …. The authors' reference the topic of innovation economics covered in a Business Week article, published earlier this fall …

A frequently made claim in the innovation literature is that important inventions involve the transfer of new knowledge …