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In this study we investigate the determinants of financing obstacles using survey data on a sample of around 5000 firms from the euro area countries. This completely new survey – started at the end of 2009 - gives us the opportunity to test whether firm characteristics such as size, age,...
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Concerns about counterfeiting and piracy are becoming increasingly widespread and have now taken on an international dimension. Higher standards of intellectual property protection are being set multilaterally and through the inclusion of intellectual property provisions in bilateral trade...
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The rapid changes in technologies that are used for R&D have created new opportunities and needs for strategic management of IPRs and knowledge, especially when used in a collaborative context. The use of new ICT technologies is fundamentally altering the way R&D is done. This is leading to a...
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This technical report summarises the software developments performed by the ETC/CDS from the year 1996 to the year 2000 …
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Study on the desirability of EC level legislation in the area of software patents. It is based on a comparative … States, the United States and Japan. While its principal focus is on software patents, the study also includes commentary on … the patenting of 'business methods', as patents in this area are closely related to software patents. It has also …
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A software-defined radio (SDR) is one that has the capability – through use of programmable hardware (handsets …) controlled by software - to tune to any frequency band and receive any modulation across a large frequency spectrum. At present …
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This study about legal and commercial guarantees, funded by the European Union in the frame of the EU Consumer Programme (2014-2020), looks at the extent to which sellers are aware of, and comply with, relevant EU legislation; the way in which legal and commercial guarantees are communicated to...
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