Public, Private and University Collaboration: Applying a Retrospective Study of the Central Massachusetts Bio-Medical Cluster, Cluster Project Summary for Mosakowski Institute

Three Clark faculty members are studying the development of the Worcester Biotechnology Cluster for any lessons it might hold for current efforts to catalyze the growth of a sustainable energy/green jobs cluster in Worcester or elsewhere. Mary Ellen Boyle (GSOM), Jennie Stephens (IDCE/ESP), and Jing Zhang (GSOM) have conducted extensive in-depth interviews and combed the literature of cluster development to produce several articles and working papers.

Productivity Growth and Efficiency in Indian Banking: A Comparison of Public, Private, and Foreign Banks

India's public sector banks (PSBs) are compared unfavorably with their private sector counterparts, domestic and foreign. This comparison rests, for the most part, on financial measures of performance, and such a comparison provides much of the rationale for privatization of PSBs.In this paper, we attempt a comparison between PSBs and their private sector counterparts based on measures of productivity that use quantities of outputs and inputs. We employ two measures of productivity: Tornqvist and Malmquist total factor productivity growth. We attempt these comparisons over the period 1992-2000, comparing PSBs with both domestic private and foreign banks. Out of a total of four comparisons we have made, there are no differences in three cases, PSBs do better in two, and foreign banks in one. To put it differently, PSBs are seen to be at a disadvantage in only one out of six comparisons. It is difficult, therefore, to sustain the proposition that efficiency and productivity have been lower in public sector banks relative to their peers in the private sector.

Private Property, Public Use, and Just Compensation: The Economics of Eminent Domain

The eminent domain clause of the U.S. Constitution concerns the limits of the government's right to take private property for public use. The economic literature on this issue has examined (1) the proper scope of this power as embodied by the 'public use' requirement, (2) the appropriate definition, and implications, of 'just compensation,' and (3) the impact of eminent domain on land use incentives of owners whose land is subject to a taking risk. This essay reviews this literature and draws implications for our understanding of eminent domain law.

Report of observation and experience of a nutrition student in a private and an official public health organization.

Special problem (M. N. S.)--Cornell Univ., June 1952.

Nuclear and chemical safety, Y2K issues : hearing before the Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session, February 24, 1999.

Shipping list no.: 99-0276-P.

Private diary of travels, personal services, and public events, during mission and employment with the European armies in the campaigns of 1812, 1813, 1814. From the invasion of Russia to the capture of Paris.

Mode of access: Internet.

American & English furniture & decorations : paintings, Georgian and other silver, linens and laces, oriental rugs : property of various owners including Mrs. Hubert M. Higgs, New Haven, Conn., several New York private collectors : public auction sale, February 20 and 21 at 2 p.m.

Cover title: English & American furniture & decorations.

A new selection of seven hundred evangelical hymns : for private, family, and public worship... /

"Intended as a supplement to Dr. Watt's Psalms and hymns."

The life and correspondence of Rufus King; comprising his letters, private and official, his public documents, and his speeches.

"Of this letter-press ed. 750 copies have been printed for sale."

Economies : an account of the relations between private property and public welfare.

Mode of access: Internet.

A treatise on the law of waters : including riparian rights, and public and private rights in waters tidal and inland /

Includes index.

A treatise on the law of waters : including riparian rights, and public and private rights in waters tidal and inland /

Includes bibliographical references and index.