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Of Mice and Academics : Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation
Murray, Fiona - 2009
maintain discretion over their research agenda and allow others to build on their discoveries. This paper examines the … granting of control rights to researchers. Within this framework, openness of upstream research does not simply encourage … higher levels of downstream exploitation. It also raises the incentives for additional upstream research by encouraging the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463828
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Procuring Knowledge
Maurer, Stephen M. - 2003
government grants. We argue that there is no single best mechanism for supporting research. Rather, mechanisms can only be … an intramural activity to largely a grant process. Finally, we observe that much research is supported by a hybrid system …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468794
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Social Construction of Trust to Protect Ideas and Data in Space Science and Geophysics
Zucker, Lynne G. - 1995
This paper applies a rational action/economic sociology approach to the central organizational theory question of whether action is embedded in pre-formed institutions that are relatively cheap in terms of time and energy, or to what extent action becomes embedded in newly constructed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473494
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Digital Dark Matter and the Economic Contribution of Apache
Greenstein, Shane - 2013
Researchers have long hypothesized that spillovers from government, university, and private company R&D contribute to economic growth, but these contributions may be difficult to measure when they take a non-pecuniary form. The growth of networking devices and the Internet in the 1990s and 2000s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459156
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Global trajectories, dynamics, and tendencies of business software piracy : benchmarking IPRs harmonization
Asongu, Simplice A.; Andrés, Antonio R. - 2014
In this paper, we examine global trajectories, dynamics, and tendencies of software piracy to ease the benchmarking of current efforts towards harmonizing the standards and enforcements of Intellectual Property Rights (henceforth IPRs) protection worldwide. Our empirical exercise is based on 15...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409257
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Technology and persistence in global software piracy
Asongu, Simplice; Meniago, Christelle - 2018
This study examines the persistence of software piracy with internet penetration vis-à-vis of PC users, conditional on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) institutions. The empirical evidence is based on a panel of 99 countries for the period 1994-2010 and the Generalised Method of Moments. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998506
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Global software piracy, technology and property rights institutions
Asongu, Simplice - 2020
This study extends the literature on fighting software piracy by investigating how Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) regimes interact with technology to mitigate software piracy when existing levels of piracy are considered. Two technology metrics (internet penetration rate and number of PC...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012183241
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Same coin, different sides : differential impact of social learning on two facets of music piracy
Wang, Jingguo; Yang, Zhiyong; Bhattacharjee, Sudip - In: Journal of management information systems : JMIS 28 (2011/12) 3, pp. 343-384
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Fighting software piracy : some global conditional policy instruments
Asonguab, Simplice A.; Singha, Pritam; Le Roux, Sara - 2016
indicate that GDP per capita, research and development expenditure, main intellectual property laws, multilateral treaties …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440568
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Determinants of property rights protection in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2016
This article complements existing literature by assessing determinants of property rights protection with particular emphasis on history, geography and institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa. The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 47 countries for the period 2000-2007. Random effects GLS...
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