Offshoring and Transfer of Intellectual Property

Gio Wiederhold, Amar Gupta and Erich Neuhold
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Amar Gupta: University of Arizona, USA
Erich Neuhold: University of Vienna, Austria

Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ), 2010, vol. 23, issue 1, 74-93

Abstract: Offshore outsourcing of work to support software development and services is seen primarily as a transfer of labor to another shore. But with every outsourced job, intellectual property is transferred as well. Such transfers have significant long term effects on the balance of intellectual property (IP) generation and consumption. The value of intangibles is based on the income that these intangibles are expected to generate in the future. This paper relates the key issues of IP found in software, an important intangible, to business models used for offshoring. The use of a quantitative model for software valuation allows formal exploration of business alternatives. The motivation for this paper is to increase the awareness of the need for software valuation when developers of software and the users of that software reside in different countries. A scenario that involves Controlled Foreign Corporations as the mechanism for IP transfer is analyzed in detail.

Date: 2010
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