Planning for indigenous technological development and the decadence of the industrial property system in the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

Entrepreneurship in a Hub-and-Spoke Industrial District: Firm Survey Evidence from Seattle's Technology Industry

Mayer H. Entrepreneurship in a hub-and-spoke industrial district: firm survey evidence from Seattle's technology industry, Regional Studies. The paper investigates entrepreneurial dynamics in a hub-and-spoke industrial district. Using data on the genealogy of high-technology firms in Seattle, Washington State, the study examines the ways in which entrepreneurial firms relate to their parent firms and the role of agglomeration economies. The results illustrate that entrepreneurship is an important vehicle for the diversification of such a district. When compared, hub-related spinoffs such as those founded by former Microsoft employees do not differ much from other start-ups. The differences between Microsoft spinoffs and start-ups are very limited; both diversify the regional economy by entering new markets when compared with their parents.

The law of France relating to industrial property, patents, trade marks, merchandise marks, trade names, models, patterns, designs, wrappers, prospectuses, exhibition rewards and medals, unpatented industrial secrets, & colonial, Algerian and Tunisian regulations /

"With a commentary on the Industrial Property Convention, 1883, and the provisions concerning British inventions and designs at French exhibitions."

Report of the United States delegation to the Vienna Diplomatic Conference on Industrial Property : Vienna, Austria, May 17 to June 12, 1973 /

"Within the framework of the Diplomatic Conference, there were three Conferences: (a) the Conference on the Trademark Registration Treaty; (b) the Conference on the Protection to Type Faces and their International Deposit; and (c) the Conference on the International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks."

Criação e teste de uma escala para avaliação da estratégia de gestão do conhecimento : aplicação a um escritório de propriedade intelectual

Esta dissertação objetiva avaliar como as empresas organizam sua estratégia para gestão do conhecimento. Basicamente dois modelos estratégicos são apresentados na literatura: a codificação e a personalização. No entanto, há uma questão que se apresenta na literatura que se refere à importância do foco prioritário em apenas um dos modelos estratégicos citados. Como objetivo principal, pretende-se apresentar uma escala que possa analisar se uma empresa líder em seu segmento realmente possui um foco estratégico com relação à gestão do conhecimento. Durante o desenvolvimento deste trabalho, será percorrido um referencial teórico que busca explicar como a gestão do conhecimento se tomou importante para a estratégia das empresas, tocando em pontos como características da Era da Informação e conceitos básicos da gestão do conhecimento, englobando modelos teóricos que buscam explicar como o conhecimento é criado e transferido dentro das empresas. Um modelo para mensuração do foco estratégico de uma empresa será proposto. Este modelo será composto de indicadores estruturados em forma de um questionário. Para cada indicador haverá uma escala de avaliação e o conjunto do questionário buscará traduzir o foco estratégico citado. Por fim, o questionário será testado em uma empresa de Propriedade Intelectual e serão feitas análises estatísticas para avaliação do mesmo. Para isto será utilizado o procedimento da análise fatorial do tipo confirmatória. Trata-se de uma ferramenta estatística que possibilita uma avaliação tanto do modelo de análise, quanto do modelo estrutural.

IWP strategy: TechFrame

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

A proteção cumulativa do design pelo Direito de Autor e pelo Direito da Propriedade Industrial: o caso especial do contrato de trabalho

Dissertação de mestrado em Direito dos Contratos e das Empresas

Ownership structure and innovation: Is there a real link?

This work focuses on the study of the relationship between ownership and control structure of the company and its innovative activity. Its aim consists of analysing the role that may be played by determinants within the company related to ownership structure when the decision to incur research and development activities is taken as well as on the output of this innovate process. Among these determinants we may think of issues such as who owns the firm and how the control of decision-making is distributed, the nature of this control and the level of concentration of ownership, among others. The study is carried out for the year 2001 using a representative sample of Spanish manufacturing industries.

Ownership structure and innovation: Is there a real link?

This work focuses on the study of the relationship between ownership and control structure of the company and its innovative activity. Its aim consists of analysing the role that may be played by determinants within the company related to ownership structure when the decision to incur research and development activities is taken as well as on the output of this innovate process. Among these determinants we may think of issues such as who owns the firm and how the control of decision-making is distributed, the nature of this control and the level of concentration of ownership, among others. The study is carried out for the year 2001 using a representative sample of Spanish manufacturing industries.

Inovação & propriedade industrial & indústria química

ABSTRACT The main aim of this paper was to contribute to reflections in Brazil on the need to transfer knowledge held at universities and R&D institutions over to companies, i.e. to transfer scientific knowledge of chemistry to technology. It discusses how the competitiveness of countries is increasingly dependent on their technological capacity. The chemicals industry is a fundamental driver of social, environmental, economic and industrial indicators of sustainable development. In Brazil, the chemicals industry's deficit has grown over the last three decades. Patents are important sources of information because patent documents contain 75% of all technological information available. The National Institute of Industrial Property in Brazil has created a Technology Observatory with the purpose of identifying and analyzing technological information contained in patent documents within the ambit of partnerships with government entities or business associations, in order to support their technology-related decision-making processes. The paper gives examples of ethanol and biotechnology patent documents, including pharmaceuticals, of which there are very few in Brazil. However, a few of the patent applications identified are filed in Brazil, giving the country the opportunity to transform this scientific knowledge into technology by means of partnership agreements with companies. Finally, the paper presents information on the patent applications filed by the world's leading chemicals companies as measured by their revenues, and the respective numbers of patent applications in the last five years in organic chemistry and polymers, sectors in which Brazil is currently dependent on imports for over 50% of its needs. The patent assignees in these sectors in Brazil are also identified, and the paper concludes that Brazil needs to invest in the development of professionals, providing clearly-defined career paths in technology innovation teams at R&D institutions, and to foster more initiatives such as the creation of a new research and innovation entity, EMBRAPII, since investing in science and technology is a prerequisite for knowledge production, industrial property, economic development and, consequently, the competitiveness of the country.

Concorrência e mudança técnica: aportes e limites dos modelos neo-schumpeterianos evolucionários de dinâmica industrial

This paper makes a critical survey of some recent evolutionary economic literature dealing with industrial dynamics. Although the evolutionary models of industrial dynamics has explored the relationships among market structure and the innovation process within an analytical context that emphasize non-linearity, behavioral asymmetries and the existence of selective process in the competitive dynamics of markets, have been capable of offering compatible results with industrial organization stylized facts, a lot of limitations in technical change description pointed out have able to alter in a crucial way the results attained.

Análisis de la jurisprudencia del Tribunal de Justicia de la Comunidad Andina referente a marcas notorias en materia de propiedad industrial (Jurisprudencia)

La marca en el mercado se consolida como uno de los principales ejes de la competencia que caracteriza a las sociedades neo-liberales, convirtiéndose en un instrumento que aporta al desarrollo económico y al interés del consumidor. La protección jurídica de las marcas que alcanzan un significativo sitial en el tráfico comercial rebasa los principios fundamentales del régimen marcario andino. Este análisis se centra en el caso de las marcas notorias, aquellas que han logrado un estatus de aceptación por parte del público, como consecuencia del éxito que ha tenido el producto o servicio que distinguen.

Spatial concentration in institutional industrial real estate investment in the England and Wales

In two recent papers Byrne and Lee (2006, 2007) examined the geographical concentration of institutional office and retail investment in England and Wales at two points in time; 1998 and 2003. The findings indicate that commercial office portfolios are concentrated in a very few urban areas, whereas retail holdings correlate more closely with the urban hierarchy of England and Wales and consequently are essentially ubiquitous. Research into the industrial sector is very much less developed, and this paper therefore makes a significant contribution to understanding the structure of industrial property investment in the UK. It shows that industrial investment concentration is between that of retail and office and is focussed on LAs with high levels of manual workers in areas with smaller industrial units. It also shows that during the period studied the structure of the sector changed, with greater emphasis on the distributional element, for which location is a principal consideration.