Technology Changes and Institutional Changes in Software Development

Abstract

The software industry has great osmosis to other traditional industry. Its effect on the optimization of traditional industry organic composition of capital and the promotion of production efficiency is obvious. As a rapid growing emerging industry, software industry started in the developing countries and the developed countries at the same time, moreover, the developing country has advantage in human capital. Therefore many developing countries take the software industry the important pillar industry to support and support with industrial policy, system and so on. The government of China recognized software status as the key pillar industry and cleared about policies such as tax preference in the year of 2000. Then the government established 11 national software industrial base in 2001, issued software industry revitalizing implementing essentials in 2002, and established 6 national software export bases in 2003. During the past 5 years, the software industry is growing rapidly with the annual mean of 30%. The development of software industry and the state system are closely related, so people concern on the relationship between technology of software development and institutional changes. This paper makes introduction and discussion the problem.