Challenges to the Patent System in face of Open Hardware

Dannie Jost gave a presentation outlining some of the challenges to the patent system presented by open source hardware at the "Open Knowledge Festival", under the topic stream treating open design, hardware, manufacturing and making; September 19, 2012; Helsinki, Finland. This topic stream generated considerable discussion, and it serves to educate an audience that is usually very adverse to patents and copyright, and helps the researcher understand the issuing conflicts surrounding emerging technologies, in particular digital technologies, and the maker movement (digitally enabled).

What makes next generation members found their own firm: knowledge, contacts, or money?

To increase our understanding of the formation of students' intentions to found an own firm, research needs to systematically integrate theory of planned behavior, resource-based view, and family business literature. To date, however, an explicit and systematic integration of these perspectives cannot be found. We attempt to close this gap by explicitly investigating founding intentions of students with family business background. More specifically, we examine how the provision of human, social, and financial resources by the family affects students' desirability and feasibility perceptions, and ultimately founding intentions. Our analysis based on a sample of 14'290 students from 26 countries reveals that both desirability and feasibility perceptions mediate the relationships between all three types of resources and founding intentions. Interestingly, the provision of financial resources is negatively related to both desirability and feasibility perceptions. These findings illustrate the research potential of a combination of theory of planned behavior with the resource-based view, especially in the family business context. Our study thus offers valuable contributions to literature on career choices, theory of planned behavior, and family business, as well as to practice.

The 'Contour' road book of Scotland; a series of elevation plans of the roads, with measurements and descriptive letterpress.

Mode of access: Internet.

Descrittione del Regno di Napoli : diuiso in dodeci prouincie, nella quale con breuità si tratta della fedelissima città di Napoli, e dele cose più notabili di essa, e delle città e terre più illustri del Regno, con le famiglie nobili, non solo di quella, ma dell'altre città di esso Regno : con i vescouadi, & arciuescouadi, e santi, che sono in esso ... /

Includes indexes.

Harvesters

Bibliography: 301-302.

The mahogany book,

"This handbook has been prepared for the architect, the designer, the maker of cabinet work and furniture and for those who sell and for those who buy."

Resources for special education.

Mode of access: Internet.

Notes on the Epistles to the Thessalonians, to Timothy, Titus and Philemon : explanatory and practical /

Mode of access: Internet.

How Britannia came to rule the waves : the story of the British navy from the earliest times /

Includes index.

Panel

Grand-Ducal Workshops; 1 ft. 3 23/64 in. x 11 1/32 in.; pietre dure mosaic on white marble ground

El hombre propone-- : pieza en un acto /

Iron gall ink annotations throughout.

Sur les fonctions du cerveau et sur celles de chacune de ses parties : avec des observations sur la possibilité de reconnnaitre les instincts, les penchans ... des hommes et des animaux, par la configuration de leur cerveau et de leur tête /

Mode of access: Internet.