How firms capture value from their innovations has long interested strategy and innovation scholars. Prior work focused on legal, economic, social mechanisms for isolating knowledge im...

In response to resource over-exploitation and ecosystem degradation, United States federal fisheries policy is shifting from species-based to ecosystem-based management. In addition, the reauthorized Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act of 2006 identified the following goals to be achieved by 2011: end over-fishing, create market-based incentives, strengthe...

Indigenous knowledge of underdeveloped countries or of underdeveloped peoples within developed or developing nations is a sought after commodity in today’s marketplace. These commercialisation pressures will increase in the globalised climate of the new-world economic order. Since knowledge is intangible, legal protection of intangible knowledge is minimal. However, when the knowledge is expres...

This paper presents lessons learned from the CLIME project (1998-2001), aimed at improving the access and understanding of large bodies of legal information through the Internet. Our approach involves explicit representation of the content of the legal sources consisting of three types of knowledge: (1) the domain being regulated (a domain ontology); (2) normative statements about the domain; (...

Third-party conflict management, particularly legal dispute resolution (arbitration and adjudication) and mediation, can help improve the willingness of disputants to make asymmetric concessions by ameliorating commitment problems and providing political cover. In both regards, and especially pertaining to commitment problems, mediation has substantial limitations when compared to legal dispute...

OBJECTIVES To undertake a critical literature review of published evidence on the effectiveness of contact tracing in sexually transmitted infections, mechanisms of referral, and the criteria for initiating this activity. To describe how these factors vary by causative agent and to characterize the current state of contact tracing in sexually transmitted infections in developed countries. MET...

In this article, the role of foreign experiences in development public control Uzbekistan, detailed information about measures to create enlightened mechanisms effective legal bases for Uzbekistan is revealed.

Outsourcing is becoming increasingly relevant as a means to respond to rapid changes and reduce investments in noncore competencies (Apte et al., 1997). As traditionally conceived, it is solely based on formal contractual mechanisms, set at an inter-firm level and mainly designed to reduce opportunistic behavior presuming an unbalanced relationship between the client and the supplier (Lacity an...

OBJECTIVES The GEMSS project is developing a secure Grid infrastructure through which six medical simulations services can be invoked. We examine the legal and security framework within which GEMSS operates. METHODS We provide a legal qualification to the operations performed upon patient data, in view of EU directive 95/46, when using medical applications on the GEMSS Grid. We identify appro...