In [22] a form of extremum seeking for control (ESC) was developed for the stabilization of uncertain nonlinear systems. In ESC the extremum seeker controls the systems through feedback rather than fine tuning a controller. The ESC results, and other related results, apply only to systems affine in control. However, in most physical systems the control effort enters the system’s dynamics throug...

" By William Gibson. Martin Seeker 6? Warburg Ltd. 15/-. Perhaps it is professional prejudice, but psychiatric interviews in novels are seldom convincing and The Cobweb is not an exception. The theme, however, need not have been set in a psychiatric hospital. Almost any setting could have been used, and in itself it is interesting and exciting. The book gives a lively account of interpersonal t...

In the policy debate, intellectual property is often justified by what seems to be a straightforward argument: if innovators are not protected against others appropriating their ideas, incentives for innovation are suboptimally low. Now in most industries for most potential users, appropriating a foreign innovation is itself an investment decision fraught with cost and risk. Nonetheless standar...

Alliance formation is often described as a mechanism used by firms to increase voluntary knowledge transfers. Access to external knowledge has been increasingly recognized as a main source of a firm’s innovativeness. In this paper we examine decisions to form alliance portfolios of foreign and domestic partners by three groups of firms: innovators (firms that are successful in introducing new p...