Volume 23 Issue 1 (2005)
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‘Genius’, ‘faction’ and rescuing intellectual property rights
Intellectual property rights have been driven relentlessly towards a unitary system for the entire world, originally through passive copying of flawed United States arrangements, but more recently as a result…
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Technology‐related factors contributing to labour intensification of surgical production
The late 1980s heralded the start of what is widely acknowledged as a period of enormous technological change in surgery, particularly, but not limited to, minimum access surgery either displacing…
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European explorers, entrepreneurial selection and environmental thresholds
This article examines the activities of two early European explorers, Christopher Columbus and Henry the Navigator, in light of modern theories on entrepreneurship. These were Schumpeter‐type entrepreneurs who revolutionised the…
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A taxonomy of public research bodies: A systemic approach
Nowadays the governments of industrialised countries, in the presence of reduced public resources, have to assign clear objectives to public research laboratories to increase the competitiveness of firms. The purpose…