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Technology appropriation in knowledge economy: innovation and intellectual property in Latin American software industry … diffusion. This article discusses the conflicts arising from software patent protection, an area in which the assets are … includes the analysis of regional software industry development, firms? strategies to protect IP, legislation and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497795
Publicly provided education is both an important public expenditure and a relevant in-kind transfer, often to the poorest households. This paper compares three methods to value education services and their distributive impact. The methods are: i) The first method is cost of provision, according...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616431
Publicly provided education is both an important public expenditure and a relevant in-kind transfer, often to the poorest households. This paper compares three methods to value education services and their distributive impact. The methods are: i) The first method is cost of provision, according...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156486
The purpose of this paper is to examine the significance of institutional arrangements to development policies. Unfortunately, modern institutionalism has concentrated on the consequences of political and economic liberties (determined by the institutional environment) to development, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330757
This article presents the international tin industry as an oligopoly organized around the International Tin Council, making it a cartel with important participation in determining tin prices, mainly between the years 1960 and beginning of 1980. As a consequence of the oil shocks and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000152
Family farms - whether small, medium-sized or large - remain as the largely predominant unit of production in agriculture throughout the world. This work examines the succession process in such entrepreneurships, through which the accumulated knowledge in management and the business assets are...
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Family farms - whether small, medium-sized or large - remain as the largely predominant unit of production in agriculture throughout the world. This work examines the succession process in such entrepreneurships, through which the accumulated knowledge in management and the business assets are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011844430
The purpose of this paper is to examine the significance of institutional arrangements to development policies. Unfortunately, modern institutionalism has concentrated on the consequences of political and economic liberties (determined by the institutional environment) to development, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009737393
This paper aims to i) to present the main dimensions of the Global Value Chain approach (upgrading, governance and government policies); and ii) to investigate the impacts of intellectual property protection on the upgrading possibilities of developing countries by means of presenting of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444817
This paper regards the regulation of intellectual property, services and investments in some preferential trade agreements. We analyze the systematization of intellectual property, services and investment rules contained in treaties signed by the United States, European Union, India and China in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330455