Wireless power transmission (WPT) is an emerging technology that is gaining increased visibility in recent years. Efficient WPT circuits, systems and strategies can address a large group of applications spanning from batteryless systems, batteryfree sensors, passive RF identification, near-field communications, and many others. WPT is a fundamental enabling technology of the Internet of Things ...

The in vitro evaluation of thieno[3,2-d]pyrimidines identified halogenated compounds 1 and 2 with antiproliferative activity against three different cancer cell lines. A structure activity relationship study indicated the necessity of the chlorine at the C4-position for biological activity. The two most active compounds 1 and 2 were found to induce apoptosis in the leukemia L1210 cell line. Add...

This paper investigates the relationship between the cooperative behavior of manufacturing establishments in a region and the efficiency of their R&D activities using data for eleven European regions. Some significant differences in the attitude towards R&D cooperation, as well as with regard to the efficiency of R&D activities between the regions can be found. However, these two issues appear ...

In this paper, we study the strategic R&D collaboration by introducing a virtual player to reveal cooperative incentives and keeping investment share and market share independent of each other. We show that high R&D input share must be reflected by high market share, and R&D investment increases with the success probability. Not consistently with the prevailing viewpoint, we also find firms’ R&...

This paper develops an empirical approach using econometric techniques for panel data which aims to contribute to the reduction/elimination of the deviation between the book and market value of firms. Based on 20 of the firms with the largest number of patents granted between 1996 and 2006, the results show that: (i) the increase in the return on equity following from an increase in the share o...

The WIDE project, www.wide.ad.jp, is a research consortium among industry and academia. WIDE project is consist of more than four hundred active researchers from more than hundred private companies and more than forty universities. The WIDE project operates the nation-wide R&D testbed, which is connected with many other R&D testbeds, and the NSPIXPs, that are the largest IXes in Japan. The main...

Companies will not survive long unless they join a threefold revolution in management itself, innovation, and information technology. Innovation plays a central role in economic development, at regional and national level. In the competitive environment companies are obliged to produce more rapidly, more effectively and more efficiently in new product development which is a result of research a...