intangible components, namely the software necessary for their operation, we have chosen to address in this paper the problems of … software products and the principles of circular economy. Thus, the paper presents the main opportunities and challenges that … circular economy involves for all stakeholders, namely manufacturers of electronic goods and developers of the related software …

find evidence that both strategic patenting and Ramp;D spillovers strongly affect innovation and market value of software … cumulative innovation. This paper studies the effects of strategic patenting on Ramp;D, patenting and market value in the … computer software industry. We focus on two key aspects: patent portfolio size which affects bargaining power in patent …

“Software platforms are the invisible engines that have created, touched, or transformed nearly every major industry … for the enduring principles it lays out; for the lessons taught by software platforms that transformed the economy from …

This paper studies the impact of software piracy in a two-sidedmarket setting. Software platforms attract developers … higher with more software protection but the impact on user prices is ambiguous. A conflict between platforms and software … developers over software protection may arise: whereas one side benefits from better protection, the other party loses out. Under …

software activity. We test the hypothesis that the level of skills of participants and their skill variety are important for …

In enterprise software markets, firms are increasingly using services-based business models built on open …-source software (OSS) to compete with established, proprietary software firms. Because thirdparty firms can also strategically … contribute to OSS and compete in the services market, the nature of competition between OSS constituents and proprietary software …

Despite the availability of source code, deploying open source software (OSS) in an enterprise environment requires … studies how users' skills and network effects may influence the market where proprietary software (PS) competes with OSS. In … the model, users make adoption decisions considering their own skills and the network effects of the software, and the …

epidemic model of innovation diffusion to deal with the different factors (profits for proprietary software and developers …A large number of studies has been canvassed by the growing rates of diffusion of Open Source Software. However, a … formal analysis of the process of competition between open–source and proprietary software is still missing. We propose an …

This paper examines one of the most important marketing strategies by software producers on the Internet. That is …