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The role of IPR on maize output in Zimbabwe
Chiwenga, Emson F - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
is given to the role of article 27 of the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement as well as the …
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Parallel imports, drug innovation and international patent protection: a policy game
Acharyya, Rajat; Garcia-Alonso, Maria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
up the efficiency issue of implementing TRIPS and at the same time allowing international exhaustion of patent rights. …
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TQM practices and affective commitment: a case of Malaysian semiconductor packaging organizations
Boon, Ooi Keng; Safa, Mohammad Samaun; Arumugam, Veeri - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The purpose of the present study is to examine the effects of the five elements of TQM practices on employees’ affective commitment within six major Malaysian semiconductor contract manufacturing organizations. Despite extensive research on TQM practices, the issue of linking TQM practices...
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Perceptions of intellectual property: a review
Ghafele, Roya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In “The right to good ideas: patents and the poor”, The Economist depicts two driving forces in the contemporary discourse on IP and globalization. The one is interested in advancing the knowledge economy, an approach based on the belief that knowledge is the driving factor behind economic...
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Diritti di proprietà intellettuale: sviluppi recenti e prospettive di riforma
Caregari, Davide - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This thesis deals with the influence of the international regime of intellectual property established by the Marrakesh Agreement (WTO) in 1995 on the world economy and more specifically on the 2007-2008 financial crisis. The establishment of a patent was first granted in the fifteenth century by...
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Effects of TRIPS on Growth, Welfare and Income Inequality in an R&D-Growth Model
Chu, Angus C.; Peng, Shin-Kun - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
What are the effects of the WTO's TRIPS Agreement on growth, welfare and income inequality? To analyze this question …, we develop an open-economy R&D-driven endogenous-growth model with wealth heterogeneity. Under TRIPS, the North … importance of foreign goods below which global welfare decreases under TRIPS. In light of our findings, we discuss policy …
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New Policy Regime and Small Pharmaceutical Firms in India
Pradhan, Jaya Prakash - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Small firms dominate the Indian pharmaceutical industry with significant contribution to the national drug production and employment. They had played an important role in enhancing domestic technological capabilities in drugs production and have been instrumental in keeping drugs prices...
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Consumer welfare and market structure in a model of competition between open source and proprietary software
Gaudeul, Alexia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
I consider a Vickrey-Salop model of spatial product differentiation with quasi-linear utility functions and contrast two modes of production, the proprietary model where entrepreneurs sell software to the users, and the open source model where users participate in software development. I show...
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The Economics of Software Products: an Example of Market Failure
Carlos, del Cacho - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper we examine pricing imperfections in software companies by analyzing the case of Microsoft, and we uncover the presence of pervasive dead-weight losses derived from the inability of the producer to achieve first degree price discrimination. Because the nature of software is such...
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The introduction of an appeals court in Dutch tax litigation
Kamphorst, Jurjen J.A.; Velthoven, Ben C.J. Van - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Since January 1, 2005, the Dutch tax litigation comprises an appeals court. Before 2005, it had but one court of instance. That means that now, after a court of first instance has given its verdict in a tax dispute, an unsatisfied party may appeal to a higher instance, where this was impossible...
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