Pressures from the USA and Europe have resulted in the proliferation of stronger intellectual property protection worldwide, as a condition for continued access to world markets. The failure of crops other than soybeans, cotton, maize and canola in developed countries to benefit from the major innovations in genetic modification raises questions regarding the implications of increased intellect...

This article presents the issues of knowledge management, in particular knowledge acquisition. The article summarizes research work started with the SeiPro2S (Semantically Enhanced Intellectual Property Protection System) system designed to protect resources from the unauthorized use of intellectual property. The system implements semantic network as a structure of knowledge representation and ...

Economic theory highlights the critical importance of excludability in encouraging private research and development in the agri-food sector. Without it, private research will languish and social welfare could suffer. Since 1970 governments around the world have recognized this and strengthened the legal protections for biotechnology processes and products (e.g. patents, plant breeders’ rights a...

available by the author under a Creative Commons License http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0 The final version is to be published in Advances in Genetics. Thanks to Lauren Dame, Bob Cook-Deegan and Alex Rosenberg for their comments and criticisms. Bob, in particular, should not be held responsible for the results. His comments helped me greatly by making clear out how alien it is ...

This study examines the effect of intellectual capital and structure on firm value with financial performance as a mediating variable. The sample was selected by purposive sampling technique. Data were analyzed using path analysis. results analysis show that has no performance, but positive value. Capital Financial negative relationship between is successfully mediated however, does not mediate...

Intellectual Property (IP) protection is a critical element in a multimedia transmission system. Therefore, ISO/IEC MPEG started the IP protection standardization project on MPEG-4 a few years ago. A basic IPMP (Intellectual Property Protection and Management) structure and interface was first defined in its System part. In this paper, we will first outline the MPEG-4 basic IP protection mechan...

The purpose of this study is to identify the evolution of the intellectual structure of human resources studies and to propose a theory of an invisible network of knowledge. Tag cloud analysis was used to trace the development path of human resources research. By analyzing 22,487 citations of 840 articles published in SCI and SSCI journals in the human resources field from 2002 to 2011, this st...

Author Co-citation Analysis (ACA) has long been used as an effective method for identifying the intellectual structure of a research domain, but it relies on simple co-citation counting, which does not take the citation content into consideration. The present study proposes a new method for measuring the similarity between co-cited authors by considering author's citation content. We collected ...

In 1982 Howard White and Belver Griffith proposed using authors as markers of "intellectual space" (White and Griffith, 1982). Since then, many in information science have made use of the metaphor between points in a real-world Cartesian coordinate system and points in abstract information spaces. "Spaces" now may be prefixed by the intellectual subtopic, such as cyberspace, conceptual space, d...

While the importance of IT-business alignment is rarely questioned, a strong theoretical foundation of alignment’s nomological network has not been developed or tested. This has generated a debate on why tighter alignment may or may not lead to higher levels of firm performance. To further understand the alignment-performance relationship, we used meta-analytic structural equation modeling tech...