Do Software Intellectual Property Rights Affect the Performance of Firms? Case Study of South Korea

Author

Suh, Dukrok ; Hwang, Junseok ; Oh, Donghyun

Author_Institution

Econ. Technol. Manage.,Econ. & Policy Program, Seoul Nat. Univ., Seoul

fYear

2008

fDate

26-31 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

307

Lastpage

312

Abstract

The aim of this study is to find the relationship between software intellectual property rights (IPRs) and the performance of software firms in South Korea. In order to measure the performance of software firms, we employed the concept of efficiency of data envelopment analysis (DEA). With measured efficiency, we use tobit regression to investigate which IPR has a stronger effect on efficiency. The empirical results show an obvious tendency: the average efficiency of software firms having any kind of software IPR is higher than that of firms not having them. Moreover, the results of tobit analysis show that both software copyrights and patents have a positive effect on the performance of software firms, and that the effect of patents is higher than that of copyrights.

Keywords

DP industry; copyright; data envelopment analysis; South Korea; copyrights; data envelopment analysis; software firms; software intellectual property rights; tobit analysis; Computer industry; Data envelopment analysis; Intellectual property; Investments; Power generation economics; Research and development; Software engineering; Software maintenance; Software measurement; Software performance; Efficiency; Intellectual Properties; Software Industry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Advances, 2008. ICSEA '08. The Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sliema

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3218-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3372-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSEA.2008.73

Filename

4668125