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...

One of the cornerstones of far-sighted infrastructure management is that it involves a life-cycle consideration, as endorsed notably by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration. Decisions on investments should be considered in terms of product performance over time. In spite of the initial...