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Of Price Discriminiation, Rootkits and Flatrates
Grassmuck, Volker - 2006
For digital information goods, economic logic seems to demand price discrimination which in turn seems to demand an implementation in the form of Digital Rights Management (DRM). The article critiques this attitude, using the recent Sony BMG rootkit case as an example. It tries to break through...
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Essays zur Kommerzialisierung innovativer Technologien durch Unternehmensgründungen
Arne Schmidt - 2010
Bereits Schumpeter (1934, 1942) beschreibt, wie technologischer Fortschritt die neuartige und wertschaffende Kombination von Ressourcen ermöglicht. Das dadurch entstehende Ungleichgewicht im Markt ermöglicht es Unternehmern, diese „Chancen“ zu verfolgen und neue Technologien in...
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Digitale Musik - Eine industrieökonomische Analyse der Musikindustrie
Raschka, Oliver D. - 2006
Die Arbeit hat zum Ziel, ein grundlegendes ökonomisches Verständnis für die Struktur und Funktionsweise des Musikmarktes zu vermitteln, der sich aktuell in einer Umbruchphase befindet. Systematische industrieökonomische Analysen, die den Einfluss digitaler Technologien auf die Musikindustrie...
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Missbrauch und Schutz von Software - Eine theoretische und empirische Untersuchung aus Sicht der Neuen Institutionen?konomik
Keller, Joachim Martin - 2008
Die Softwarebranche beklagt sich ?ber durch Raubkopien verursachte Sch?den in H?he von mehreren Miliarden Euro. In diesem Zusammenhang wird oft die Forderung laut, das Internet m?sse besser ?berwacht werden, um die zunehmende Verbreitung von Raubkopien einzud?mmen. Erg?nzend verlangen viele...
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An Empirical Analysis of Development Processes for Anticipatory Standards
Mitra, Prasenjit; Purao, Sandeep; Bagby, John W.; … - Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University; … - 2005
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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Intellectual Property Rights and Their Impacts in Developing Countries: An Empirical Analysis of Maize Breeding in Mexico
Leger, Andreanne - 2005
There is little empirical evidence concerning the effects of intellectual property rights (IPR) on a technologically advanced developing country. Complete enumeration of the Mexican maize breeding industry showed that, contrary to the hypothesis that IPR would provide, in a technologically...
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GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROP INNOVATIONS AND PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION: TRADE AND WELFARE EFFECTS IN THE SOYBEAN COMPLEX
Sobolevsky, Andrei; Moschini, GianCarlo; Lapan, Harvey E. - 2002
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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Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm
Benkler, Yochai - 2002
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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Enigma of Intellectual Property Rights: How Long Shall We Miss the Opportunities?
Gupta, Anil K. - 1997
apparently was beyond our reach. Consequently, a dominant opinion against product patent regime got developed in our country … opportunities that exist globally with specific reference to patent expiration, biodiversity based drug development. I also review … the recent trends in filing patents based on herbal resources in US Patent Office during last two years compared to the …
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Knowledge origin, innovations and growth in ayurvedic bioprospection: references from Kerala
Harilal, M. S. - 2008
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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