Asset protection in the software industry : intellectual property strategies and trends / Proteção de ativos na industria de software : estrategias e tendencias de propriedade intelectual

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2007

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The thesis concerns the appropriation of the results of innovations generated in software industry and the protection of the technological assets by the firms, in the context of the raising importance of knowledge to value generation with the economy dematerialization and also the raising importance of intellectual property in the appropriation of the innovation efforts returns. Software represents one of the icons of Knowledge Economy, by its direct contribution in nation?s value generation, but also by its pervasiveness and its transversely character that helps other industries dynamics. It analyze the coevolution of software industry and of the process of regulation of intellectual property protection focusing three relevant technological regimes of this industry, each one with a different balance between hardware, software and services: big computers (mainframes), personal computers and web services. For such a heterogeneous industry, it is certainly not possible just one solution concerning tools for the protection of intellectual property rights, being them formal or informal. Given the historical evolution of software industry, it analysis how firms tried to protect their intangible assets, considering that each business model has its own needs in terms of protection and that the protection mechanisms are diverse in different countries. At the 90th decade, two apparently contradictory movements appeared. By one side, the strengthening of intellectual property rights, with the raising of software patents, not so usual since then at software firms. In the other hand, at the same period, the free and open code software, that is a result and a stimulus of software industry migration to service based business models, reinforced itself and introduced alternatives ways of software development and of making available and protected the generated knowledge, based on licenses. In this way, the appropriation forms used by firms contextualized in respective business models that have been established in industry are analyzed

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computer software industry software - patentes intellectual property propriedade intelectual industria de software software

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