The Decision to Patent (Contributions to Economics)
Physica-Verlag HD | 2010-08-29 | ISBN: 3790826111 | 164 pages | PDF | 1 MB
This book provides a thorough analysis of the decision to apply for a patent. Unlike many other theoretical approaches, the negative effect a patent may have due to the disclosure requirement linked to every patent application is taken into account. Seen in this light, the propensity to patent can be identified as the opposing forces of a protective and a disclosure effect.

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Daniela Wiehenbrauk, “Collaborative Promotions: Optimizing Retail Supply Chains with Upstream Information Sharing”
Springer | 2010 | ISBN: 3642133924 | 153 pages | PDF | 2,1 MB

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Philip Kotler, Roland Berger, Nils Bickhoff, “The Quintessence of Strategic Management: What You Really Need to Know to Survive in Business”
Springer | 2010 | ISBN: 3642145434 | 132 pages | PDF | 1,7 MB

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Philipp N. Baecker, “Real Options and Intellectual Property: Capital Budgeting Under Imperfect Patent Protection (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)”
Springer; 1 edition (March 6, 2007) | English | 3540482636 | 278 pages | PDF | 1.54 MB
Over the last years, due to intensive competition in the knowledge economy, legal aspects surrounding intellectual property (IP) rights – including litigation and settlement – have continuously gained in importance. Correspondingly, professional IP management has become an indispensable element of successful value-based management (VBM) in research-intensive firms. With this text, the author proposes an integrated approach to patent risk and capital budgeting in pharmaceutical research and development (R and D), developing an option-based view (OBV) of imperfect patent protection, which draws upon contingent-claims analysis, stochastic game theory, as well as novel numerical methods.

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Professionnaliser : Construire des parcours personnalisés de professionnalisation
Eyrolles (18 mars 2010) | ISBN: 2212546327 | 139 pages | PDF | 1.2 MB
L’exigence de professionnalisme est aujourd’hui omniprésente : les employeurs veulent pouvoir compter sur des professionnels, les clients et les patients exigent d’avoir affaire à des ” pros “, les demandeurs d’emploi veulent argumenter sur leur employabilité, les salariés cherchent à valider les acquis de leur expérience professionnelle, les universités mettent en avant leurs filières de professionnalisation

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The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System
Princeton University Press | 2010-06-14 | ISBN: 0691148848 | 168 pages | PDF | 1 MB
In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world’s leading economists–representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion–gathered at New Hampshire’s Squam Lake. Their goal: the mapping of a long-term plan for financial regulation reform.

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Alejandro Portes, “Economic Sociology: A Systematic Inquiry”
Princeton University Press | 2010 | ISBN: 069114222X, 0691142238 | 320 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB

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Karl Gunnar Persson, “An Economic History of Europe: Knowledge, Institutions and Growth, 600 to the Present”
Cambridge University Press | 2010 | ISBN: 0521840090, 052154940X | 270 pages | PDF | 2,3 MB

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Damien Kingsbury, Leena Avonius – Human Rights in Asia: A Reassessment of the Asian Values Debate
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan | 2008-09-15 | ISBN: 0230606393 | PDF | 264 pages | 5.81 MB

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Vincent Barichard, Matthias Ehrgott, Xavier Gandibleux, Vincent T’Kindt, “Multiobjective Programming and Goal Programming: Theoretical Results and Practical Applications”
Springer | 2009 | ISBN: 3540856455 | 298 pages | PDF | 6,9 MB

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