ESSENCE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN SOFTWARE AND DIGITAL GOODS DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION
The purpose of the research in the development and distribution of information products is to define the relationships between firms' performance and technical processes used to create them. In terms of the information economy is important to determine the form of value that is created by the processes of an information products development; determine the nature of these processes and economic properties of the product. The study draws attention to the economic properties of software and information products, characteristics of financing development to create them. The basic business model of enterprise developers and enterprise network economy. Attention is paid to the phenomenon of free software. Thus, these changes in ways and approaches to create new value form the basis for further research of an economic aspects of the growth of innovative enterprises sectors, software development, and other information products; form the need to determine the place and role of these companies to secure economic growth; identify new ways of management in terms of available global information space.