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Economics of Philanthropic Institutions, Regulation and Governance in Turkey
Babacan, Mehmet - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper merges the literature on regulation, specifically private provision of public goods, and governance with the … literature on philanthropic institutions (awqaf) in Turkey. Traditionally, awqaf (plural for the waqf) have been very functional … discussions under the literature on regulation and governance, particularly the property rights. This paper analyzes the role of …
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Agricultural Technology and Marketing Margins in Vietnam
Jensen, Tarp; Tarp, Finn - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper analyses the potential distributional impact and synergy effects from simultaneous improvements in agricultural sector productivity and reductions in trade and transportation margins. Two separate models are established to analyse (i) the interaction between agricultural technology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009001180
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Policy and Product Differentiations Encourage the International Transfer of Environmental Technologies
Hattori, Keisuke - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper investigates the welfare effects of international transfers of environmental technologies in open economies with international oligopoly and transboundary pollution, and shows that policy differentiation between the donor and recipient countries and/or product differentiation between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837075
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Identification of University Inventors and University Patenting Patterns at Lund University:Conceptual- Methodological & Empirical Findings
Goktepe, Devrim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
One of the most interesting indicators to show the change in the socio-economic role of universities in the last several decades has been the use of university patenting. However except some individual studies in European countries (e.g. Finland, Norway, Belgium, Italy, Germany and France) there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837335
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An Assessment of Technology Transfer System in Afghanistan: The Case of Balkh and Nangarhar provinces
Singh, K.M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
An estimated 85% of Afghanistan’s population lives in rural areas, most of which are resource poor farmers whose livelihoods depend on agriculture and livestock in agro-pastoral or crop-livestock systems. Agriculture – including the processing of agricultural and livestock products --...
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Hazard Concerns: MIC at Bhopal and Virginia and the Indian Nuclear Liability Act
Tyabji, Nasir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Oblivious to the anger and outrage expressed throughout the world after the methyl isocyanate leak in December 1984, the continued storage of MIC at the parent West Virginia plant until 2011, despite several accidents, indicates the limited effect of public safety concerns on corporate strategy....
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A Model of Technology Transfer in Japan's Rapid Economic Growth Period
Aoki, Shuhei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Why did the Japanese economy stagnate before World War II, how did it achieve rapid economic growth after the war, and why did it stagnate again after the 1970s? To answer these questions, I developed a two-country trade model with technology transfer, where rms in the two countries compete in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855798
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Transfert de technologie dans une ville carrée à deux dimensions avec cout de transport quadratique
Bouguezzi, Fehmi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper studies and compares licensing regimes of a cost reducing innovation in a two dimensional square city where consumers are located in the interior of the square city and pay a quadratic transport cost when moving to one of the competing firms. The difference between results in this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615027
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Współpraca małych i średnich przedsiębiorstw z ośrodkami naukowo-badawczymi na przykładzie Krakowskiego Parku Technologicznego
Wach, Krzysztof - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
IN this article, the author elaborates on the co-operation between small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and research and development laboratories in the Małopolska region. He presents the role of technology transfer based on the experience of the 'Kraków Technology Park' Special Economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147919
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Patent licensing in spatial competition: Does pre-innovation cost asymmetry matter?
Poddar, Sougata; Bouguezzi, Fehmi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We consider the optimal licensing strategy of an insider patentee in a circular city of Salop’s model and in a linear city of Hotelling’s model when firms have asymmetric pre-innovation marginal costs of production and compete in prices. We completely characterize the optimal licensing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220683