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Can We Protect How We Do What We Do? A Consideration of Business Method Patents in Australia and Europe
McNamara, Judith; Cradduck, Lucy M. - 2007
In the long history of monopolies, business method patents are a novel and recent edition. In the Digital Age, where time is money and speed is everything, innovative methods for undertaking business are as important to a business as the products or services it provides to its clients. In recent...
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China's Creative Industries : Copyright, Social Network Markets and the Business of Culture in a Digital Age
Montgomery, Lucy - 2010
China’s Creative Industries explores the role of new technologies, globalization and higher levels of connectivity in … re-defining relationships between ‘producers’ and ‘consumers’ in 21st century China. The evolution of new business models … traced through China’s film, music and fashion industries. The book argues that social network markets, consumer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438197
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The impact of Communities of Practice (CoP)on inter-firm alliance research teams
Erasmus, René - 2005
The need for faster, more flexible and less risky ways for organisations to expand their capabilities and competencies increasingly lead to the formation and proliferation of networking strategies and partners. Understanding the potential contribution that CoP membership can provide within these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457780
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Facilitating Malaysia towards innovative society : arguing the case for open access policy
Mohamad Hashim, Haswira Nor - 2010
The Malaysian National Innovation Model blueprint states that there is an urgent need to pursue an innovation-oriented economy to improve the nation’s capacity for knowledge, creativity and innovation. In nurturing a pervasive innovation culture, the Malaysian government has declared the year...
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The Chinese steel industry in transition: industry Perspective on Innovation Policy
Huang, Xueli; Schroder, Bill; Steffens, Paul R. - 1999
There is little empirical research on how the Chinese Government should function in innovation management, particularly during its critical period of economic transition. This study explores and investigates the Chinese Government’s innovation management structure, procedures and functions by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438114
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Economic Growth, Lifestyle Changes, and the Coexistence of Under and Overweight in China: A Semiparametric Approach
Shimokawa, Satoru; Pinstrup-Andersen, Per - 2006
overweight among adults in China during 1991-2000. Our key questions are: (1) whether any socioeconomic factor explains both … to 18.5 kg/m2), (2)whether China’'s continuing economic growth leads to further increase in the prevalence of overweight …, and (3) whether China’'s economic growth alone can lead to commensurate decrease in its remaining underweight. Based on …
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The Analysis of Economic Growth Cycle in Henan Province
LIU, Rong li - 2011
According to the data of practical GDP time sequences from 1978 to 2009 provided by Henan Statistical Yearbook of every year, Hodrick-Prescott filter model is established, and it is disintegrated into tendency component (potential yield) and fluctuation component (yield gap). The critical...
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Cointegration Analysis on the Relation between Urbanization and Economic Growth in China
LIU, Ai ying; YAO, Li fen; LI, Qing chen - 2011
empirical research on the relation between urbanization and GDP in China, and also implements a comparative analysis to the …
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Economic Growth and Carbon Emission Control -A case study of power industry in China
Zhang, Zhenyu; Schoengold, Karina - 2009
electricity generation sector in China was chosen to demonstrate the economic impact of possible emissions control on the …. Data comes from the China Statistical Yearbook and China Electric Power Yearbook, providing the provincial information for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444721
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What drives fiscal decentralisation? Further assessing the role of income
Bodman, Philip; Hodge, Andrew - 2010
This paper investigates the determinants of fiscal decentralisation, focusing in particular on the impact of the level of income on the level of fiscal decentralisation. Various measures of fiscal decentralisation, several of them novel in this context, are employed in a cross-country...
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