In this paper, we examine global trajectories, dynamics, and tendencies of software piracy to ease the benchmarking of …. The richness of the dataset allows us to disaggregate countries into fundamental characteristics of business software … main finding suggest that, a genuine timeframe for standardizing IPRs laws in the fight against software piracy is most …

This study examines the persistence of software piracy with internet penetration vis-à-vis of PC users, conditional on …-2010 and the Generalised Method of Moments. The main finding is that, compared to internet penetration, PC usage is more … responsible for the persistence of global software piracy. Knowing how technology affects the persistence of piracy is important …

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 …

may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds out proprietary innovation which on net may reduce total innovation … in the long run. These effects would be reinforced if philanthropical innovation diverted people from other productive …

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 …

software industry shows that the global-local dichotomy in the innovation debate does not suffice to describe their complex …In recent years, innovation processes involve more heterogenous actors inside and outside the firm. Little is known … however about the spatial impact of this organisational decomposition of innovation processes (ODIP): Does it lead to a …

innovation performance of companies and can pose major threats to global competition and economic growth. However, the actual … to the adoption of alternative measures of innovation performance (Intangible Assets). It certainly merits further …

companies increasing their focus on patent value relative to companies from other industries. On average, aerospace and software …

This paper studies the impact of software piracy on prominent and non-prominent software developers in markets based on … prominent software into account. We show that prominent software exhibits higher piracy rates than non-prominent software …. However, contrary to intuition, this does not necessarily mean that prominent software developers benefit more from increased …