Foreign direct investment has been important in China’s economic development since the early 1980s. In recent years the volume of inward FDI into China, according to some estimates, has been second only to that into the United States. The Chinese government has emphasised the need for FDI to be coupled with the transfer of more advanced technologies to China. For foreign companies technology tr...

During Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) procedures, the transfer of a single embryo dramatically reduces the rate of multiple pregnancy. Proper information, therefore, should be delivered to patients before embryo transfer. In many countries, regulations limit, according to age of the patient, the number of embryos to be transferred. Selective fetal reduction should not be considered as a...

The purpose of this paper is to sketch out what are the consequences of free technology transfer, licensing and foreign direct investment (F.D.I) on the North-South welfare in a two-good, two-country Ricardian model. On the demand side and following the recent reappearance of the homotheticity restriction on consumers preferences, we use a Cobb-Douglas utility function. We show how that the dev...

Despite long development periods for neuroprosthetic devices, the numbers in clinical use or clinical trials are rising, with an estimated 3,000 systems in use today. As they gain experience with the regulatory approval process, developers are learning to conduct research to best prepare for transfer of technology to industry. The track record of the first motor prosthesis to be approved by the...

INFO-RNA is a new web server for designing RNA sequences that fold into a user given secondary structure. Furthermore, constraints on the sequence can be specified, e.g. one can restrict sequence positions to a fixed nucleotide or to a set of nucleotides. Moreover, the user can allow violations of the constraints at some positions, which can be advantageous in complicated cases. The INFO-RNA we...

This paper develops an incomplete contract model of the licensing relationship that is susceptible to the moral hazard problem. The optimal contractual form of licensing derived in the model generates predictions that seem to be consistent with actual practice. For instance, the introduction of inputs that are not contractible and costly explains the prevalence of royalty contracts in the licen...