Conceptually, there is not much distance between diagraming the intellectual structure of an historical line of research and doing the same thing for the whole of contemporary science. If, as the DNA-history study showed (l), citation analysis can be used to define the intellectual relationships between past research events, there is no obvious reason why it cannot be used to do the same thing ...

Conceptually, there is not much distance between diagraming the intellectual structure of an historical line of research and doing the same thing for the whole of contemporary science. If, as the DNA-history study showed (l), citation analysis can be used to define the intellectual relationships between past research events, there is no obvious reason why it cannot be used to do the same thing ...

This paper develops a real options model of capital structure to understand two distinct roles played by intellectual capital in corporate financing decisions. First, intellectual capital limits a firm’s debt capacity because of its low liquidation value. Second, intellectual capital enhances a firm’s debt capacity through its positive impact on the earnings dynamics. We show that the former is...

T he traditional focus of economic analysis of intellectual property has been on reconciling incentives for producing such property with concerns about restricting access to it by granting exclusive rights in intellectual goods—that is, by “propertizing” them—thus enabling the owner to charge a price for access that exceeds marginal cost. For example, patentability provides an additional incent...

objective:  the aim of the research was investigating and visualizing the intellectual structure of thermodynamics subject area based on outputs of iranian scholars of the field indexed in thomson reuters web of science during time span of 1990-2009.   method: the population of the research was all references of the mentioned publications. the sample was the top 1 percent cited scholars of the ...