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.Chapter four discusses the impact of ability grouping in secondary educationon student incentives. Education provides a signal on … unobservable abilityfor employers and improves productivity after education. Selection setsbetter incentives in primary education … (Gesamtschulen) hat die erworbeneQualifikation aber eine höhere Signalwirkung. Deswegen haben die Schülerauch einen höheren Anreiz …
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There is an evolution in the process used by standards-developmentorganizations (SDOs) and this is changing the prevailing standardsdevelopment activity (SDA) for information and communications technology(ICT). The process is progressing from traditional SDA modes, typicallyinvolving the...
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hypothesis that IPR would provide, in a technologically advanced developing country, incentives for R&D and innovation, IPR play …
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We develop a new partial equilibrium, four-region world trade model for the soybean complex comprising soybeans, soybean oil, and soybean meal. In the model, some consumers view genetically modified Roundup Ready (RR) soybeans and products as weakly inferior to conventional ones; the RR seed is...
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From Introduction:"The emergence of free software and the phenomenal success of its flagships - the GNU/Linux operating system, the Apache web server, Perl, sendmail, BIND - and many other projects should force us to take a second look at the dominant paradigm we hold about productivity. In the...
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"Indian drug industry provides an outstanding example of its distinctive contribution in adapting global technologies for domestic demand through adaptive research in formulation of drugs. This has meant availability of large number of drugs at low cost. Having developed an expertise in reverse...
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The recent manufacturing interest in traditional medical systems and biodiversity sectorsis directly related to the profitable innovations that traditional knowledge can generate. Inthis context, this study attempts to understand the nature of knowledge origin andinnovative process in the drug...
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The impact of patent protection on biomedical innovation has been a controversial issue.Although a “medical anti-commons” has been predicted due to a proliferation of patents onupstream technologies, evidence to test these concerns is only now emerging. However, mostindustrial surveys that...
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This paper focuses on the practice of technological innovation in a state owned enterprises(SOE) which operates in traditional industry and is located in an underdeveloped region of a developing country. It is about best practice of benefiting from technological innovationthrough patent strategy...
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suggest that while incentives and perceptions do differ betweensectors, sufficient common space exists or can be created …
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