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Intellectual Property Protection And Technology Transfer The Case Of Overseas R & D
Kanwar, Sunil - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper investigates whether, in what direction, and to what extent one mode of technology transfer – namely, overseas R&D – is influenced by the strength of intellectual property protection that host nations provide. Using data spanning the period 1977-2004, we find weak...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999351
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Intellectual Property Protection and the Licensing of Technology to Developing Countries
Kanwar, Sunil - eSocialSciences - 2010
In this paper, the influence of stronger intellectual property protection on technology transfer into developing countries via licensing is analyzed. Using panel data for the post-TRIPs period 1995-2005, it is found that stronger protection is associated with increased royalty and license fee...
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The Universities for Research and Innovation Bill, 2012
eSocialSciences; Parliamentary Research Service PRS - 2012
A bill to provide for the establishment and incorporation of Universities for Research and Innovation and for enabling … them to emerge as centres for ecosystems to develop as hubs of education, research and innovation and to promote research … and innovation in learning and design, development and delivery of solutions and for matters connected therewith and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010568020
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Migrants' Private Giving and Development: Diasporic Influences on Development in Central Gujarat, India
Guha, Puja - eSocialSciences - 2013
The paper addresses the migration-development debate by developing a framework for understanding who are the migrants, what they are sending back, and how these transfers are being utilised in the local economy. It argues that the social backgrounds and migration histories of migrants –...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133155
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Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013: A Generation at Risk
eSocialSciences; International Labour Organisation ILO - 2014
This issue of Global Employment Trends for Youth provides an update on youth labour markets around the world, focusing both on the continuing labour market crisis and on structural issues in youth labour markets. The report provides an overview of youth labour markets at the global and regional...
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Mumbai/Shanghai: Prospects/Problems--Imitating Global, Failing Local
Sharma, Kalpana - eSocialSciences - 2006
Do we aspire to be a ‘global’ city like Shanghai, with all the spit and polish to attract foreign investors by the drove? Or can we aim to be a city with a sustainable plan for its development – one that marries ecology with economy? Is it more important for us to forge links...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487795
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The Wealth of Cities: Towards an Assets-based Development of Newly Urbanizing Regions
Freidman, John - eSocialSciences - 2006
The argument in this paper is in four parts: First, the author suggests that we can no longer treat cities apart from the regions surrounding them with which they are intensively entwined. Second, the paper critically examines the current policy consensus that a city’s future rests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487800
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Role of Science & Technology, Higher Education and Research in Regional Socio-Economic Development
Shukla, Rajesh; Kakar, Preeti - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper is an attempt to focus on the role of Science and Technology (S&T) on regional development of India by considering 21 Indian states. The Index approach using the Principal Component technique has been adopted. For analysing the impact, a set of three indices focussing on Current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980012
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Innovation, Efficiency, Productivity and Intellectual Property Rights: Evidence from a BRIC Economy
Kanwar, Sunil - eSocialSciences - 2013
The innovation, efficiency and productivity responses to the stronger protection of intellectual property rights post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133188
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Recent Financial Market Developments and Implications for Monetary Policy
Mohan, Rakesh - eSocialSciences - 2007
The nature of the financial turbulence that happened recently in US and Europe, why it happened, where it happened, and the implications for central banks. Some of the forces that led up to and characterized the recent spate of events, the specific responses of central banks and some challenges...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528200