Software Industry Survey
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The Software Industry Survey is an annual, for-the-public scientific survey about the size, composition, current state and future of the software industry and companies in Europe with origin in Finland.[1][2][3][4]
The survey organization is led (in 2010 and 2011[5]) by the Software Business Lab research group of the BIT research centre at Aalto University, School of Science and Technology (former Helsinki University of Technology) with the help of several industry partners.[3][6] Researchers from the Helsinki University of Technology and Centres of Expertise first organized this survey in 1997 to provide an overview of the Finnish software industry with financing mainly from the National Technology Agency (Tekes) and the Finnish Ministry of Trade and Industry.[1] The 2011 Finnish survey received responses from 506 participants which is a bit smaller than 2010 due to more strict selection criteria.[4] Surveys analysing the industry in other European countries than Finland are run by research partners.[7] In 2011 the survey was implemented in Austria and Germany.[2]
The published reports by the survey group cover economic impacts on the software industry such as the Great Recession or Nokia’s changes for Symbian in 2011, on roughly 100 pages. Starting with the 2009 report, all included images and tables can be re-used under the free Creative Commons Attribution license version 3.0.[8]
Apart from these reports, the survey's data is used as input for various scientific studies based on the collected data.[9] Results are also used by media companies like newspapers as source for news articles.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Juhana et al.: Results from the National Software Industry Survey 2002. p. 6.
- ^ a b softwareindustrysurvey.org: Welcome to Software Industry Survey
- ^ a b softwareindustrysurvey.org: General Information
- ^ a b softwareindustrysurvey.org: Report Finland 2011, p. ii.
- ^ softwareindustrysurvey.org: Final report of the 2011
- ^ softwareindustrysurvey.org: Media Coverage
- ^ softwareindustrysurvey.org: Become a project partner
- ^ See the footer pages 2 therein.
- ^ g. scholar search; e. g. The following article uses the data from the 2003 survey: Ojala, A. & Tyrväinen, P. (2007). Market Entry and Priority of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the Software Industry: An Empirical Analysis of Cultural Distance, Geographical Distance, and Market Size. Journal of International Marketing, 15 (3), 123–149.
- ^ E. g. Tietokone: Ohjelmistoala porskuttaa Suomessa Archived 2013-02-13 at archive.today, 17 June 2011; Kauppalehti: Ohjelmistoala selvisi taantumasta naarmuilla Archived 2011-11-28 at the Wayback Machine; 2 November 2010. Taloussanomat: Ohjelmistoala selvisi taantumasta muuta it-alaa paremmin, 2 November 2010; MTV3: Taantuma haittasi suomalaisia ohjelmistoyrityksiä vain vähän, 2 November 2010; ZDNET: Windows Phone to be bigger than iOS, Android - in Nokia's Finnish homeland, that is, 24 September 2012.
External links
[edit]- softwareindustrysurvey.fi/ – the Software Industry Survey group's website in Finland