Forest Tenures — Requirements, Rights and Responsibilities: An Economic Perspective

Data Rights and Responsibilities

A human-rights-based analysis can be a useful tool for the scientific community and policy makers as they develop codes of conduct, harmonized standards, and national policies for data sharing. The human rights framework provides a shared set of values and norms across borders, defines rights and responsibilities of various actors involved in data sharing, addresses the potential harms as well ...

Standards and intellectual property rights: an economic and legal perspective

The authors are concerned with the reconciliation of private rights that intellectual property rights (IPRs) represent with the public benefit deriving from properly developed technical standards. One of the key difficulties in achieving this aim is that IPRs are increasingly perceived as conflicting with other norms; in particular, the relationship between intellectual property law and competi...

Identifing Implementation Requirements of Massive Open Online Course in Payam Noor University from an Economic Perspective

The aim of present research was to identify Implementation requirements of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in Payam Noor University from an Economic perspective. The methodology used in this study was applied and the method of data collection was qualitative. The components used were based on the documentation and semi-structured interview tools. Inductive content analysis was used in three l...

Evolution of Forest Tenures and its Impact on Local Economy

The impacts of county-level forestry, specifically bamboo, reforms on the local economy are examined. In the case of fresh bamboo shoots, by the end of the first phase of land reforms (1987), disincentives associated with the sharing of collective outputs, were eliminated; and allocation of labor and capital inputs reached near optimal. Industrial and market reforms created price incentives, an...

Legislative briefing: patient rights and responsibilities laws.