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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"intellectual property rights (IPR)"”.
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The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Turkey in the EU Accession Process: A Perception Analysis of the Police Officers Dealing with IPR Crimes
Intellectual property rights (IPR) has become one of the most debated issues, particularly in recent years due to its relevance and importance in the intellectual, economic and industrial fields. It is widely accepted that the protection of IPR plays a crucial role in intellectual and technological …
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The stability of coerced economic reform : the case of IPR
… imposed reforms can be expected to stick. Using intellectual property rights (IPR) reform as a policy case, this dissertation seeks to explain why imposed reform stabilizes in some states but not in others. Here, stable policy means a government demonstrates credible and ongoing commitment to the …
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A comparative study of watermarking techniques in spatial and frequency domains
… has served as a tool for the protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of multimedia contents. Due to the digital nature of multimedia documents, these documents can be duplicated, modified, transformed, and diffused very easily. As a result, a watermark that is embedded into the …
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Content-based Digital Video Processing. Digital Videos Segmentation, Retrieval and Interpretation.
… have been widely implemented to protect intellectual property rights (IPR). In addition, automatic recognition of highlights from videos is a fundamental and challenging problem for content-based indexing and retrieval applications. In this thesis, a paradigm is proposed to segment, …
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Essays on growth and innovation policies
… work with Daron Acemoglu. We study the form of intellectual property rights (IPR) policy and licensing in the context of endogenous economic growth with step-by-step cumulative innovation. The main questions of the analysis are as follows. Should a company with a large technological lead receive …
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The role of venture capitalists in financing and developing high-technology start-ups
… commercialization strategy: (a) the control of intellectual property rights (IPR), (b) low transaction costs, and (c) the cost of sunk assets associated with product market entry.
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From words to deeds: explaining China’s (Non)compliance with the global intellectual property rights regime since the country’s WTO entry
… China's de jure and de facto compliance with the intellectual property rights (IPR) norms, despite China's consistent legislative and enforcement efforts since the country's WTO accession in 2001? I argue that the degree of China's (non)compliance with IPR norms should be understood as a result of …
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Web services strategy
… high availability, security, manageability and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) are paramount concerns. In this paper we use a systems dynamics model to simulate the impact of market changes on the adoption of innovative technologies and their commoditization on the industry value chain, with …
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Compulsory licensure as a cost-containment measure for essential medicines: a comparative study of South Africa, the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China
… aspirations to reform certain components of its intellectual property (IP) regime, ensuring alignment with the country's development prerogatives. Homing in on technical barriers with the operationalisation of the existing CL mechanism; this paper investigates remedial recommendations to support …
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A matrix based integrated framework for multi disciplinary exploration of cyber-international relations
… and coherent test use-case based on "Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)" domain. The CSSD framework is then adapted to test its applicability to the use-case. IPR has been selected as the test use-case because it provided both the legal understanding and legislative efforts at …
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Factors affecting selection of learning management systems in higher education institutions
… of inquiry investigates the possible impact that intellectual property rights (IPR) litigation, relative to Learning Management Systems, may have on the thinking and decision-making of these IT leaders when helping to select their institution’s LMS. Interviews with fifteen Chief Information …
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Essays on innovation and the financing of entrepreneurship
… topic. The first chapter studies the effects of intellectual property rights (IPR) and antitrust policies on aggregate innovation. I develop a continuous-time model that examines the roles of incumbent firms and inventors. In this model, incumbent firms choose the extent of research and …
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An empirical investigation of the effect of Intellectual Property Rights systems on Foreign Direct Investment Flows and Spillovers
The major themes of this thesis are the impact of Intellectual Property (IP) systems on foreign direct investment spillovers and bilateral FDI flows. This thesis consists of three empirical studies. The first study integrates in the existing theoretical frameworks the distinct effect of the public …
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Copyrighting Chinese media: cultural commodification in a political economic context
… and historical contexts. The development of intellectual property is shaped by, and contributes to, transforming global and Chinese political economy. Still unfolding, the Chinese copyright system has shown distinct pro-business and pro-property biases which work to the detriment of media …
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Developing guidelines for the protection of indigeneous knowledge under agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area
… the African Continental Free Trade Area on Intellectual Property Rights (IP Protocol) has been adopted, there is yet to be an annex on indigenous knowledge, traditional cultural expressions, and genetic resources. Therefore, this study proposes guidelines and a structured framework to guide …