FLOSS impact study

The Study on the Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU was conducted under the coordination of UNU-MERIT. Sopinspace's participation to this study addressed in particular scenario building based on technology, business and legal environment factors, policy recommendations and the macro-economic analysis of relationship between free/libre/open source software and the more general economy of information production and exchange.

The study was conducted for the Entreprise and Industry DG of the European Commission. You can dowload its final report on DG ENTR's Web site.