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Reforming India’s Pluralistic Extension System: Some Policy Issues
Singh, K.M.; Swanson, B.E.; Meena, M.S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The agricultural sector in India has been successful in keeping pace with the rising food demand of a growing … changing economic scenario in India and the need for appropriate agricultural technologies and agro-management practices to … extension undergoes fundamental changes, India looks for a whole new policy mix that nurtures the pluralistic extension system …
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China's Government-Set Patent Targets and Performance Indicators: Boosting Numbers or Innovation?
Prud'homme, Dan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper uncovers over 10 central level and over 150 provincial/municipal level patent targets, mostly to be met by 2015, within a wide range of Chinese policy documents. The analysis suggests there are weaknesses in certain targets due to the absence of important criteria for ensuring patent...
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Evidence from SMEs in Prishtina region, Kosovo
Govori, Arbiana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
strategic knowledge management and in the literature of organizational learning. Innovation needs a business environment that is …
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Dulling the Cutting Edge: How Patent-Related Policies and Practices Hamper Innovation in China
Prud'homme, Dan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This study’s statistical analysis shows that patent quality and innovation in China deserve improvement, and an in-depth legal, management science, and economic analysis in the study shows that various patent-related policies and practices actually hamper patent quality and innovation in...
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How certain indigenous innovation and other patent policies hamper innovation in China
Prud'homme, Dan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
China has a wide-range of patent-specific and other patent-related policies in-place, many of which are at least partially meant to stimulate patents and “indigenous innovation.” However, the analysis in this paper discusses how some of these policies in effect can actually discourage...
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China's Indigenous IP Policies -- Here to Stay?
Prud'homme, Dan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In 2010 and 2011, foreign businesses and governments welcomed measures believed to dramatically reform a highly controversial branch of China’s indigenous innovation policy which provided government procurement preferences to applicants who can meet restrictive indigenous intellectual property...
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Creativity, cities and innovation
Lee, Neil; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The creative industries have long been seen as an innovative sector. More recent research posits that creative occupations are also a fundamental, but overlooked, driver of innovation. Theory also suggests cities are important for both creative industries and occupations, with urban environments...
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The economic value of fair use in copyright law: counterfactual impact analysis of fair use policy on private copying technology and copyright markets in Singapore
Ghafele, Roya; Gibert, Benjamin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The counterfactual impact analysis of fair use amendments in Singapore undertaken here demonstrates that flexible fair use policy positively influences growth rates in private copying technology industries. In 2010, five years after the policy intervention, Singapore’s fair use amendments are...
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Policies for Industrial Learning in China and Mexico: Neo-developmental vs. Neo-liberal approaches
Shafaeddin, Mehdi; Gallaher, Kevin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
industrial learning and the development of capabilities of indigenous firms in Mexico and China in order to shed light on why …-developmental.” Mexico’s hands-off approach to learning has resulted in a lack of development of endogenous capacity of domestic firms …
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International Specialization in Research & Development
Evrin, Alperen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In this paper, I examine the effects of implementing tighter Intellectual Property Rights in a model of International Trade. In my model, firms in different countries have the choice of committing their resources to introducing new products (product innovation) or to imitating and improving upon...
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