Since the late 1980s, the Chinese economy has been growing at an enviable average annual rate of about ten per cent. Accompanying this unprecedented economic development and growth was the maturation of the modern Chinese intellectual property system. In the 1980s, China introduced its first modern copyright, patent, and trademark laws. A decade later, China revamped its intellectual property s...

The intellectual capital of a nation (or a region of nations as is the case for this paper) requires the articulation of a system of variables that helps to uncover and manage the invisible wealth of a country. Most importantly, an emphasis on human capital allows for a better understanding of the hidden values, individuals, enterprises, institutions, and communities that are both current and p...

Worldwide, 1.04% of the population is estimated to have an intellectual disability; however, this proportion has been found to be higher in lowand middle-income countries.1 According to the WHO, ‘intellectual disability’ is defi ned as ‘a signifi cantly reduced ability to understand new or complex information and to learn and apply new skills’. This results in a reduced ability to cope independ...

This study aimed to analyse the health problems and prescriptions of people with intellectual disabilities registered with GPs. Within the Second Dutch National Survey of General Practice evidence was gathered on the differences in health problems between people with intellectual disabilities and control persons (without intellectual disabilities). In a 1:5 matched sample, people with intellect...

This paper argues that macroeconomic models of endogenous growth driven by technological change could be much improved by drawing lessons from the microeconomic literature of intellectual property design. Growth models use overly simplistic and sometimes incorrect assumptions regarding the intellectual property regime. Microeconomic theory and empirical work are reviewed to demonstrate that det...

The purpose of this empirical study is to investigate the current state of best practices in the transdisciplinary field of intellectual capital management and measurement. The paper examines the proposition that intellectual capital report is a key element in firm’s sustainable competitive advantage. This relevance will be reflected by way of disclosure of intellectual capital in the annual re...

We hypothesized that the intellectual development of students, i.e., their beliefs about the nature of knowledge and learning, affects their intrinsic motivation and class performance. Specifically, we hypothesized that students with low intellectual development (i.e., the naive beliefs that knowledge is simple, absolute, and certain) have low intrinsic motivation and low class performance, whe...

This study is constituted by three components. The first will examine how Chinese scholars and Western sinologists have characterized modern Chinese intellectual history and what directions they have proposed for future intellectual development in China. The second section will construct a hermeneutic model of intercultural understanding and discuss its implications for the evaluation of modern...