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A Contribution to the Understanding of Illegal Copying of Software: Empirical and Analytical Evidence Against Conventional Wisdom

Osorio, Carlos A. - 2002

This paper analyzes the causes of illegal copying and its effects in the software market across 66countries. By studying the aggregated and joint effects of different variables, the analysis shows thatsupply constraints in the software market, shortage of after-sale support, and characteristics...

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Chef, lass uns mal Kultur machen! Festschrift zum 6. Würzburger Wirtschaftssymposium

Schwaneck, Stefan; Welge, Christopher; Ann-Kathrin Bopp; … - 2010

Am Montag, den 29. November 2010 fand das 6. Würzburger Wirtschaftssymposium unter dem Leitmotiv "Chef, lass uns mal Kultur machen!" statt. Die gemeinnützige Veranstaltung versteht sich seit jeher als Ort der Begegnung und des gemeinsamen Gedankenaustauschs, Studenten und Mitarbeiter aller...

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Managing Digital Piracy: Pricing and Protection

Sundararajan, Arun - 2004

This paper analyzes the optimal choice of pricing schedules andtechnological deterrence levels in a market with digital … that a monopolist’soptimal pricing schedule can be characterized as a simple combination ofthe zero-piracy pricing schedule … technology implementing each marginalreduction in piracy is increasingly less or more vulnerable to hacking.Pricing and …

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A holistic audit of managing intellectual property: IP management in the Queensland Department of Primary Industries

Steffens, Paul R.; Waterhouse, Michael - 2000

The management of intellectual property (IP) within Australian government research and development agencies has changed dramatically over recent years. Increasing expectations have been placed on utilising public sector IP to both underpin economic development and augment taxes by generating new...

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Product Tying Involving Intellectual Property: Pro or Anti-innovation Effects

Dobrean, Corina Virginia - 2011

This paper analyses the effects of tying arrangements involving IP rights on innovation. Tying, with its ability to temporarily exclude others from the potential benefits deriving from innovation, is pro-innovative by providing firms the incentive to allocate resources to realize newer and...

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TRIPS and the pharmaceutical industry: Prescription for profit?

Moerman, L. C.; van der Laan, S. L. - 2006

The impact of global patent regulation in the form of the WTO’s TRIPS Agreement has far reaching effects for the research based pharmaceutical industry and global public health This paper explores the role of accounting in reinforcing the primacy of capital interests over global public...

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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...

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Random Walks, Non-Cooperation Games, and the Complex Mathematics of Patent Pricing

Denton, F. Russell; Heald, Paul J. - 2003

Current patent valuation methods have been described charitably as “inappropriate,” “crude,” “inherently unreliable,” and a “guesstimate.” This article provides a more rational and systematic tool than any we have found in the existing literature or relevant case law. We believe...

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Steps towards the development of a ‘culture of innovation’ amongst undergraduate industrial designers

Walsh, Ian; Clement, Marc - 2001

Developing innovative solutions to problems is no easy task. Firstly there has to be a desire within the individual to seek out the innovative solution; secondly there is the problem of how to identify what constitutes an innovative solution; and finally one has to combat the natural tendency...

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IP-valuation as a tool to sustain innovation

Iversen, EJ; Kaloudis, A - 2006

The creation of new knowledge, its commercialization and the ability to appropriate the economic benefits have increasingly become a competitive factor both for firms and, indeed, for economies. Therefore, initiatives that improve the conditions for the generation, diffusion and exploitation of...

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