We draw on qualitative data derived from field work on two university campuses to develop an explanation for widely disparate rates of new invention disclosure. We argue that faculty decisions to disclose are shaped by their perceptions of the benefits of patent protection. These incentives to disclose are magnified or minimized by the perceived costs of interacting with technology transfer off...

We consider a market where there is an agency relationship between the providers of a service or agents and their clients. Agents can choose to work alone or to have a sharing agreement with other agents. Sharing agreements create value by facilitating better matches between clients and agents, but they worsen incentives because of free riding. We show that in the context of a one shot game, th...

Globalization has drastically improved access of technological latecomers to advanced technologies and provides a unique opportunity for low-income countries to raise per capita income. This paper shows that low-income countries as a group have in fact substantially increased the GDP-ratio of technology imports over the past few years, but that there are large cross-country discrepancies in tec...

The mobile telecommunications industry is undergoing a rapid change, which is increasing the interdependency of firms in the sector. This trend increases the likelihood that mobile information and entertainment services will be delivered through inter-organisational networks of firms. These networks are the topic of this research. In particular we examine service networks and the possible influ...

SUMMARY We study a trade-off between economic and environmental indicators using a two-stage optimal control setting where the player can switch to a cleaner technology, that is environmentally " efficient " , but economically less productive. We provide an analytical characterization of the solution paths for the case where the considered utility functions are increasing and strictly concave w...

We discuss a recently proposed novel photonic approach for enhancing the fluorescence of extremely thin chemosensing polymer layers. We present theoretical and experimental results demonstrating the concept of gain-assisted waveguided energy transfer (G-WET) on a very thin polymer nanolayer spincoated on an active ZnO thin film. The G-WET approach is shown to result in an 8-fold increase in pol...

The principle of heat transfer enhancement in the core flow of a tube has been proposed, in this paper, to make fluid temperature uniform in the core region of a tube and decrease flow resistance, which is different from heat transfer enhancement in the boundary flow of a tube. Two new models, representing heat transfer enhancement in the laminar and turbulent tube flow, have been established a...

Background: To explore and compare the dual embryo transfer DET with single embryo transfer SET weather electively or not, in more viewpoints like financially, and scientifically and finding out which of these policies may give better outcome by analyzing both in a neutral broad spectrum manner. Materials and Methods: A computerized comprehensive search studies ended in finding of 62 articles o...