This paper contributes to literature by adding a new taxonomy that has deductively scaled business product into four different types. It is both visually and conceptually resourceful in developing suitable business strategies for firms to engineer products that will fit with a proper segment of...

New information technologies have created new possibilities in resolving long-standing debates in social organization. The debates involving buying versus leasing, business versus government, and markets versus hierarchies captured intellectual imagination, and dominated public consciousness for...

In this article, we discuss how trademark law might apply to virtual worlds and virtual economies. In Part I, we consider how trademark infringement in virtual worlds resembles and differs from trademark infringement in other media. In Part II, we look at the various business models of...

Selling virtual items for real money is increasingly being used as a revenue model in games and other online services. To some parents and authorities, this has been a shock: previously innocuous ‘consumption games’ suddenly seem to be enticing players into giving away their money for...

Industrial design is migrating to the virtual world, and the design patent system is migrating with it. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has already granted several thousand design patents on virtual designs, patents that cover the designs of graphical user interfaces for...

To execute contemporary warfare more efficiently, to weaponise data at an industrial scale and to deploy a full-spectrum of information manoeuvre weapons, defence needs to deploy modern hyper-scale computing platforms on today’s battlefield. In doing so it will attract innovative young...