Intellectual property rights are essential in today’s technology-driven age. Building a strategic IP portfolio is economically important from both an offensive and defensive standpoint. Applicable areas in Nanotechnology to which intellectual property rights can apply are presented. Some challenging issues surrounding the acquisition of IP rights in Nanotechnology are also presented. The Import...

Do Southern intellectual property rights (IPRs) affect Northern innovation? There is much theoretical debate on the impact of IPRs in the South on the incentives of Northern firms to innovate and transfer technologies to the South. While empirical research exists on the effects of Southern IPRs on Northern technology transfers, empirical evidence on the effects of Southern IPRs on Northern inno...

BACKGROUND There is a lack of validated instruments measuring perceived stigma in people with intellectual disability. AIMS To develop a valid and reliable self-rated instrument to measure perceived stigma that can be completed by people with mild to moderate intellectual disability. METHOD A literature search was used to generate a list of statements. Professionals, individuals with intell...

This paper studies the spatial patterns and the determinants of intellectual property rights (IPRs). I ̄nd evidence of spatial correlation in the strength of IPRs provided by di®erent countries. This spatial association persists after controlling for domestic socio-political and economic variables that can a®ect the choice of IPRs and which could potentially be correlated in space. A possible e...

This paper examines the relationship between intellectual property rights (IPRs) and the growth rate of per capita GDP during the period 1996-2006 in a sample 71 countries. Using software piracy data as a proxy for IPR violations, we find that countries with increasing rates of software piracy have lower growth rates. We also find that states with strong commitments to enact policies to protect...

The ability of a business to effectively allocate resources from the primary line and gain income by its financial performance. aim study for examine impact company’s age, capital structure, size, advertising ratio, intellectual on Research populations this involved consumer non-cyclical companies listed Indonesian stock exchange period 2018 2020. sample was determined using objective sampling ...

INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................... 3 I. EXPORTING CLINICAL TRIAL DATA EXCLUSIVITY REGIMES FROM DEVELOPED TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES .......................... 9 A. The Egregiously High Costs and Risks of Clinical Trials .......... 9 B. The Domestic Response .............................................................. 11 C....

The efficiency of Integrative Gestalt Therapy on the decrease of undesired types of behaviour measured by the AAMD scale (Part two) in children with intellectual disabilities has been demonstrated in the authors' earlier works. The object of this work is to state the effects of the same therapeutic method on the intellectual aspects of social competence in the children with difficulties, as mea...

OBJECTIVE there is growing evidence that many parents with intellectual disabilities can parent successfully when given adequate support. This paper aims to explore the postnatal care experiences of mothers with an intellectual disability. DESIGN a qualitative design was used and data were collected using a semi-structured interview format and analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological An...