2002 Change Software Development 
Idea to Value
AUGUST 26, 2016
If you want to see just crazy the situation is, watch this video by software developer Austin Meyer, in which he describes his experience trying to fight these patent infringement claims with the companies that sued him. But the biggest change to the system came in 2011, with the America Invents Act.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 31, 2016
How online marketplaces are changing the face of business. He charged developers for toolkits – inhibiting the very software producers he should have wanted on Apple’s platform. Failure to engage developers. The platform owner must also show software developers what’s in it for them if they contribute.
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Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 5, 2017
Industries with a higher share of IT workers saw more concentration between 2002 and 2007, even after controlling for M&A activity and several other variables. The nature of competition is changing, in complicated and often contradictory ways. Other academic research has found the same.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
Research by one of us (James) links this trend to software. Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. Most industries in the U.S. Why, then, did Apple prevail?
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 4, 2018
GM’s layoffs are not just incremental but existential, in that sense: They are about accelerating the staffing changes mandated by the company’s aggressive transition from analog to digital products and from gasoline to electric power. To that end, Trump called on GM to close one of its plants in China.
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