We study the impact of private ownership, incentive pay and local development objectives on university licensing performance. We develop and test a simple contracting model of technology licensing offices, using new survey information together with panel data on U.S. universities for 1995-99. We find that private universities are much more likely to adopt incentive pay than public ones, but own...

each license plate recognition system is composed of three main parts, namely, license plate detection, character segmentation and character recognition. in this paper, we focus on the improvement and innovation of the character recognition step. for this purpose, a new hierarchical architecture based on support vector machines (svms) is suggested for persian license plate characters recognitio...

car license plate recognition is addressed in this paper. given the development of intelligent transportation systems, it is absolutely essential to implement a strong license plate recognition system. efforts were made to put forward a novel reliable method for car license plate recognition in iran. each license plate recognition system comprises three main parts. the first part is the license...

Even though companies like Sun, IBM, MySQL and others have released several commercial Open Source Software (OSS) products, little evidence exist of how to successfully launch such products and establish a living community around them. This paper presents a case study from a small software company succeeding at establishing a business model and a vivid community around their own OSS products. B...

nowadays, sport is known as a great business in trade activities and has brought huge revenues for athletes; sport teams and other sport personalities whereas large part of this revenue emanates from intellectual property rights particularly different kinds of trademarks. regarding fundamental principles and legal approaches of leading systems, this paper attempts to clarify the eminent role of...