Both management and market analysts “systematically underestimate the annual growth rates of software companies,” according to researchers who examined these types of firms. Software firms are growing at 13.9% annually, and this growth is being underestimated by over a third. The paper also examines the importance of software to the economy and investigates whether market participants are adequately appreciating the dramatic technological shift that software is supporting and disrupting in the global economy (they’re not). The paper is: “The Value of Software,” by Collin Dursteler, Roberto Gomez Cram, and Alastair Lawrence, all from the London Business School.