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Scribd Launches Readcast, Integrates With Facebook® Social Plugins to Make Reading More Social SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - April 21, 2010) -   f8 Developer Conference -- Scribd, the world's largest social publishing and reading site, launches Scribd Readcast along with Facebook's new social plugins. Readcast is a set of features that enables people to automatically share what they're reading on Scribd with their friends on Facebook and other social sites. The Facebook Like button and Activity Feed are also now part of the Scribd social reading experience. "Scribd is the place where connections form around shared reading interests," said Trip Adler, CEO and co-founder Scribd. "Now, the universe of social reading suddenly opens up to include Twilight fan fiction, investigative reports about Goldman Sachs, Mary Meeker's Web 2.0 presentation, tips for using solar power. This reflects the breadth and depth of what people read on a daily basis, not just what they're reading on news sites." Readcast is a customizable feature that enables people to automatically share what they're reading on Scribd with friends on Facebook and contacts on other social media sites. People can also choose to share Scribd reading events such as scribbles, comments, ratings, downloads, and eventually mobile reading activity, printing and purchases. Visit http://blog.scribd.com for more information about Readcast. Faceboook social plugins integration enables Scribd users to "like" their favorite reading material and to see -- without leaving Scribd.com -- which Scribd books, research, presentations, illustrations and other written works their friends on Facebook friends "like," comment on, and share. "Scribd's integration with our new social plugins allows people to create social connections around written works," said Ethan Beard, director of Facebook Developer Network. "Now, it's easier to connect with friends on Facebook who are reading the same books, researching the same topics or s

Intellectual Property Rights And Concentration In Agricultural Biotechnology William Lesser Cornell University AgBioForum Fall98 v.1, n.2 The relationships between intellectual property rights (IPRs) and structural change are examined in this paper. Intellectual property rights are a complex, multifaceted area and one in which corporate strategies are poorly understood. Nevertheless, it is argued here that IPRs can affect firm entry, can make vertical integration in downstream industries more or less necessary, and can create financial incentives for downstream mergers and acquisitions. Hence, IPRs can have significant structural impacts. Key words: intellectual property rights; agrobiotechnology; industry structure; research and development (R&D) The later 1990s have been a tumultuous time for merger and acquisition activity among firms involved in agricultural biotechnology. By the end of the third quarter of 1998, Monsanto alone had been involved in 18 acquisitions and had itself agreed and then reneged on a merger with American Home Products. In addition, Monsanto completed overseas acquisitions worth a total of $7.3 billion over two years. Novartis was formed by the merging of Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy, while DuPont chose to enter the market through joint ventures; a total of 20 joint ventures valued at over $5 billion (Moore, 1998). These mergers have contributed greatly to a restructuring of the seed industry. Most notably, Monsanto controlled up to 40 percent of seed for the 1998 United States (U.S.) soybean crop and, if approved, full acquisition of Delta & Pine Land will give Monsanto ownership of at least 80 percent of the U.S. cotton seed industry (Kilman & Warren, 1998). This is not the only incidence of major acquisition activity, a previous one occurred about 20 years earlier. Butler and Marion (1985) list 27 mergers during the period 1978-80. The 1980 date is pivotal as it marks some strengthening amendments to the United States Plant Variety Prot

There is a veritable gold rush mentality in the life science world as scientists, entrepreneurs and multinationals are staking claims to the a ~code of lifea (TM) embodied in the worlda (TM)s current stock of plants, animals, microbes and human populations. In response, the communities that see themselves as the custodians of both that traditional knowledge and specific genetic resources have demanded greater recognition of their role in creating and conserving this resource, access to any resulting improvements and a share of the benefits arising from their patrimony. This has precipitated a widespread efforta "in local communities, in the marketplace, in many developing and developed countries and at the talks in the Doha Round of the WTOa "to reconcile the interests and concerns of the two opposing groups. This edited volume explores the legal, economic and political context for the debate about intellectual property rights for traditional knowledge and genetic resources and critically analyses the theory and practice of access and benefits sharing efforts around the world. The book also investigates the current flashpointsa "the David and Goliath battle between Monsanto and Percy Schmeiser over farmersa (TM) rights; the dispute over coexistence of GM and organic production; and the ownership and control of human genetic materials stored in human gene banks around the world.

Technology alliances create market development rights that are shared between partners in an alliance relative to codeveloped product technology. Alliance partners will often manage the shared market development rights in a cooperative manner by forming an agreement in which one partner (i.e., the licensor) licenses its market development rights to the other partner in the alliance (i.e., the licensee). The real options and bargaining power literatures provide opposing recommendations regarding whether a licensor creates greater shareholder value by licensing its market development rights to the licensee on a more or less restrictive basis. Empirical analysis of technology alliance contracts reveals that the restrictiveness by which a licensor should license its market development rights to a licensee depends on the licensee's strategic marketing emphasis. Specifically, a licensee will create greater value by following a more restrictive distribution strategy when its partner's marketing strategy emphasizes value creation. Alternatively, a licensee will create greater value when its partner's marketing strategy emphasizes value appropriation by following a less restrictive distribution strategy. From a theoretical perspective, the paper's findings provide early evidence regarding the contribution of marketing strategy toward value creation in technology alliances and help resolve the differing expectations offered by the real options and bargaining power literatures. Managerially, the paper identifies an alliance partner's strategic marketing emphasis as a hitherto unrecognized factor determining when managers should follow a more or less restrictive distribution strategy when licensing marketing development rights within technology alliances

Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin About the Author Search CEE Home | CEE | 2nd edition | Tragedy of the Commons In 1974 the general public got a graphic illustration of the "tragedy of the commons" in satellite photos of the earth. Pictures of northern Africa showed an irregular dark patch 390 square miles in area. Ground-level investigation revealed a fenced area inside of which there was plenty of grass. Outside, the ground cover had been devastated. The explanation was simple. The fenced area was private property, subdivided into five portions. Each year the owners moved their animals to a new section. Fallow periods of four years gave the pastures time to recover from the grazing. The owners did this because they had an incentive to take care of their land. But no one owned the land outside the ranch. It was open to nomads and their herds. Though knowing nothing of Karl Marx, the herdsmen followed his famous advice of 1875: "To each according to his needs." Their needs were uncontrolled and grew with the increase in the number of animals. But supply was governed by nature and decreased drastically during the drought of the early 1970s. The herds exceeded the natural "carrying capacity" of their environment, soil was compacted and eroded, and "weedy" plants, unfit for cattle consumption, replaced good plants. Many cattle died, and so did humans. The rational explanation for such ruin was given more than 170 years ago. In 1832 William Forster Lloyd, a political economist at Oxford University, looking at the recurring devastation of common (i.e., not privately owned) pastures in England, asked: "Why are the cattle on a common so puny and stunted? Why is the common itself so bare-worn, and cropped so differently from the adjoining inclosures?" Lloyd's answer assumed that each human exploiter of the common was guided by self-interest. At the point when the carrying capacity of the commons was fully reached, a herdsman might ask himsel

Call for Abstracts The Management of the Guarani Aquifer System: An Example of Cooperation 21-23 September 2011, São Paulo Deadline for Abstracts: 30 April 2011 -------------------------------------------------------------------- In August 2010 Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, countries that share the Guarani Aquifer System (GAS), signed a new agreement for the management of this complex system. The four countries are now involved in the ratification process and in the negotiations of instititutional aspects, including discussions regarding an annex to the Agreement on arbitration procedures.  Against this background, the management of the GAS can benefit from a debate about the steps that have been taken until now, and about the challenges that lay ahead. The conference "The Management of the Guarani Aquifer System: An Example of Cooperation" provides this opportunity and the organisers invite researchers, consultants and water management experts to submit an abstract for one of the three sessions of the conference: (1)  An assessment of the scientific knowledge on the GAS (2) Current use and protection of the Guarani Aquifer System (3) The GAS and regional cooperation The conference contributes to the UNESCO ISARM (Internationally Shared Aquifers Resource Management) Programme (http://www.isarm.net/) Initiative and is supported by the Associacao Brasileira de Aguas Subterraneas, the Associacao Brasilerira de Recursos Hidricos, the Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia de Engenharia and the Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia. Organising Committee: Ricardo Hirata, Centro de Pesquisas de Água Subterrânea - Instituto de Geociências da Universidade de São Paulo (CEPAS - IGc/USP)Geroncio Rocha, Secretaria do Meio Ambiente do Estado de São PauloFrancesco Sindico, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom For further information on the conference, including how to submit an abstract, please see http://www.igc.usp.br/index.php?id=446 or refer to the

This paper examines, mainly at the theoretical level, current academic debates around private environmental governance, private regulation and its role (or not) in management choices over shared groundwater resources. The conclusions reached are based on a literature review and a theoretical analysis to give possible points for discussion and potential research questions.

Learning Resources This page contains learning resources for the e-agriculture.org community.  These are courses and modules focused on e-Agriculture as a field or designed to teach participants skills relevant to areas of e-Agriculture.  If you come across other such resources, we hope you will contribute them. Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK) The Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK) is a partnership-based e-Learning initiative to train individuals and support institutions and networks world-wide in the effective management of agricultural information. IMARK consists of a suite of distance learning resources, tools and communities on information management. IMARK learning materials are being developed as a series of modules available online and on CD-ROM. The modules are being developed using the latest methods in e-learning, providing an interactive environment for self-paced learning. List of IMARK Modules ItrainOnline Multimedia Training Kit  The ItrainOnline MMTK is a growing collection of "workshop kits" for face-to-face training. The materials use a standard set of templates, and offer building blocks for trainers to build their own courses. Materials are available in English, French, Arabic, and Russian, and cover technical skills, content development skills, developing thematic content, organizational development and planning, and ICT policy, advocacy, and the digital divide. CGIAR Online Learning Resources Center From this page you can access a repository of CGIAR Centers' learning objects and other training resources, as well as Web-based training courses. You can access these sites anonymously to search and retrieve information and resources as well as enrol in courses. If you wish to contribute resources or need further information please contact the Learning Resources Team. Thank you for visiting. The Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) This is a partnership of over 120 learning centres (GDLN Affiliates) in nearly

Federal Rural Development Policy in the Twentieth Century Dennis Roth, Anne B. W. Effland, Douglas E. Bowers United States Department of Agriculture - Economic Research Service 2002 Links modified July, 2008 Contents Summary .pdf [20 KB] Introduction -- Douglas E. Bowers .pdf [47 KB] Section I. From the Country Life Movement Through Passage of the 1972 Rural Development Act -- Dennis Roth Chapter 1. The Country Life Movement .pdf [38 KB] Chapter 2. The New Deal .pdf [91 KB] Chapter 3. True D. Morse and the Beginnings of Postwar Rural Development Work .pdf [63 KB] Chapter 4. The Kennedy Administration Picks Up the Pace .pdf [57 KB] Chapter 5. The Johnson Administration and the Great Society .pdf [78 KB] Chapter 6. The Nixon Administration Through Passage of the Rural Development Act of 1972 .pdf [42 KB] Section II. From the Rural Development Act to the 21st Century Anne B. W. Effland Chapter 7. Shared Goals, Opposing Strategies: The Nixon and Ford Administrations and the Rural Development Act of 1972 .pdf [43 KB] Chapter 8. Rural Renaissance: New Policy Questions for the Carter Administration .pdf [60 KB] Chapter 9. Federalism in the 1980s: Fiscal and Policy Restraint by the Reagan Administration .pdf [73 KB] Chapter 10. Cooperation, Innovation, and Information: The Bush Administration Renews the Federal Commitment .pdf [51 KB] Chapter 11. Rural Amenities, Global Economy, and the Environment: The Clinton Administration Confronts the New Paradigms .pdf [97 KB] Conclusion: One Hundred Years of Rural Development Policy Anne B. W. Effland .pdf [42 KB] Appendix Table: 100 Years of Federal Programs for Rural Development Anne B. W. Effland .pdf [41 KB]   Media Help: To view PDF files you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. The report describes and assesses Federal rural development policy and programs during the 20th century, focusing on trends of change and continuity. Definitions of rurality and characteristics of rural populatio

Many recent studies maintain that regional characteristics influence the innovative performances, innovation processes and innovation patterns of firms. Based on a representative sample of knowledge-intensive firms in Norway, this paper analyses the innovation output, innovation partners, knowledge sources, and localization of sources and partners for knowledge-intensive firms in three types of region: large urban regions, small urban regions and rural areas.The empirical results contradict some of the assumptions of the literature dealing with agglomeration economies, regional clusters, and so on. We find, for example, that the firms' innovation partners and knowledge sources are quite similar irrespective of location. This may indicate that the relevant innovation systems in knowledge-intensive industries in Norway are sectoral and national rather than regional. The paper also finds that the small urban regions and the rural regions have a higher share of innovating, knowledge-intensive firms than the large urban regions, which may partly be explained by a much higher rate of public funding of innovation activity in the first two regional types. However, the large urban regions have higher new firm formation rates and more radically innovating firms than the other two types of region. The paper discusses to what extent the concept of open innovation may contribute to explaining the empirical results, because firms in large urban regions can rely more on open innovation than firms in other regions.

THE ECONOMICS OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Innovation is acknowledged to be a multidimensional and complex process. Thus, traditional research and development (R&D) expenditures capture only a portion of the sources of and activities involved in innovation. Innovation investment includes: a) basic research; b) product development; c) adoption of new production techniques and technologies; d) organizational change; e) distribution and market changes; f) production organization and access to production factors; and g) training and the development of new skills. Traditional in-house R&D investment is being complemented by external sources of innovation and new knowledge. Recent contributions in the economics of knowledge and innovation highlight that innovation is a cooperative and collective process. Collaboration between firms, and between firms and universities, R&D centres and technology transfer centres is a strategy aimed at the sharing of knowledge and competencies, and obtaining the benefits of technological complementarities. Innovation is rarely the result of individual firm efforts; it generally emerges from the interactions among local firms and institutions within a network of innovators. This research is aimed at identifying, understanding and classifying the different ways firms innovate, distinguishing between internal and external sources. Special emphasis is put on understanding the multiple organizational forms involved in innovation and the problems encountered by economic agents and their organizations in acquiring and coordinating their innovative capabilities. The theoretical framework developed is tested on the automotive industry. Recent publications

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Carbon Footprint May Deepen Latin AmericaTrade Vulnerability The emerging role of the carbon footprint as a tool for climate change mitigation for developed countries in line with their international commitments is increasing in importance, but its possible consequences for trade in Latin America are a long way from being fully understood and resolved.  The carbon footprint refers to the amount of carbon dioxide (CO 2) emitted during the life-cycle of a product along the supply chain, and sometimes including end-of-life recovery and disposal. Overall, the region lacks consensus on the benefits of the carbon footprint, with some concerned about the possible hindrance to trade, while others see it as an opportunity. Since Latin America and the Caribbean has an export matrix heavily dependent on environmentally sensitive products, and thus would be affected by measures taken that discriminate products based on their carbon footprint, Latin American countries are concerned that the "carbon content" of goods may result in "protectionism". This is especially worrisome, since developing countries are hardly responsible for the vast majority of historical carbon emissions and emit far less per capita than developed nations. In addition, LAC has a wide range of products that are destined for the markets currently discussed in carbon footprint laws. For example, of Argentina's total global exports in 2008, 1,8 % correspond to vehicles to France, and of Brazil's total global exports in 2009, 0.6% correspond to coffee exports to Germany. These types of products are already included in the carbon footprint product families proposed by France and coffee in the products considered in Germany. Therefore, countries could incur increased cost or suffer from decreased international demand if their products are considered higher in carbon intensity at comparable prices. Other vulnerable sectors identified from the LAC region include textiles, salmon, frozen foods and flowers. Carbon

Abstract This paper combines insights from different streams of literature to develop a more comprehensive framework for the analysis of knowledge transfer via value chain relationships. We integrate the existing literature in three ways. First, we consider value chain relationships as a multi-facet process of interaction between buyers and suppliers, involving different modes of knowledge transmission and development. Second, we assess whether and to what extent value chain relationships are associated with the presence of multinationals and with their embeddedness in the host economy. Third, we take into account the capabilities of local firms to handle the technology as a factor influencing knowledge transfer through value chain relationships. Using data on 1385 firms active in Thailand in 2001-2003, we apply a multinomial logit model to test how the nature and intensity of multinational presence and the competencies of local firms affect the organization of international knowledge transfer. We find that knowledge intensive relationships, which are characterized by a significant transmission of technical and organizational competencies along the value chains, are positively associated with the presence of global buyers in the local market, with the efforts of MNCs to adapt technology to local contexts, and with the technical capabilities of domestic firms. By contrast, the age of subsidiaries and the share of inputs purchased locally appear to increase the likelihood of value chain relationships with a lower technological profile. Article Outline 1. Introduction 2. Previous literature 3. An integrated framework for the analysis of value chains and knowledge transfer 4. Data and variable specification 4.1. Sample and sources 4.2. Why Thailand 4.3. Variable description 5. Empirical analysis 5.1. Empirical model 5.2. Discussion of results 5.2.1. Multinational presence (SUB) 5.2.2. Multinational embeddedness 5.2.3. Domestic firms' capacity "to handle the tech

History of piracy, reviewed by EFF's senior copyright lawyer Cory Doctorow Sun May 30 2010 20:06:08 GMT-0300 (Hora oficial do Brasil) Share Fred von Lohmann, senior copyright attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has just posted a review of Adrian John's monumental, 500-page Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates, a thoroughgoing and well-researched history that draws compelling conclusions about the need to view piracy as a business-model crisis, not a moral one. I'm about halfway through Piracy myself, and really enjoying it:

Abstracts for papers and proposals for sessions (no more than 500 words) will be considered by the conference Scientific Committee. For sessions an overview and 3-4 abstracts should be proposed, and a session chair identified. Both, paper abstracts and session proposals should be submitted to it-apn2010@ivm.vu.nl by 15 October 2010. The conference Scientific Committee will provide decisions on selected papers and sessions by the 30 October 2010. Those invited to present will be asked to provide short papers by 15 December 2010. These will be made available on the conference website: http://umconference.um.edu.my/it-apn2011 prior to the meeting. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to make 15 minute presentations at the conference. Guidelines for Fullpaper Submission The full papers should be up to 8000 words and include title, authors names and affiliations incl. address, telephone and email, abstract, main text and references. Pls number your pages. Figures and tables should be part of the text and not a separate file. We do not define font, spacing or format - just be reasonable by avoiding extremes. The full papers should rather be submitted as pdfs for better protection but of course word files will also be accepted. Papers Accepted for Presentation 012 The development of biofuel in Indonesia from diffusion and stakeholder interactions - Joni Jupesta   014 Niche management policy to increase the market share of Alternative Fuel Vehicles : A system dynamics model of the policy effect - Tae-Hyeong Kwon   015 Enhancing Sustained Adoption of Innovations: The Case of Bio-nitrogen Fertilizer in the Philippines - Linda Penalba   016 Enabling poverty relevant bio-fertilizer bio-innovation systems - lessons from India - Sunita Sungar   017 Ethical Market: Ethnographic Encounter with Global Market, CML patients, and Glivec in South Korea - Eun Jeong Ma   018 Surge of high-input vegetable production in northern Thailand: Is the innovation pro-poor and gende

By Yuriy Humber and Ichiro Suzuki Mitsui & Co. plans to buy 44.2 percent of Brazilian grain broker Multigrain SA from CHS Inc. of the U.S. for 40 billion yen ($482 million), the Nikkei newspaper reported. The deal will raise Mitsui's stake in Multigrain to 88.4 percent and the Japanese trading company has plans to make the broker wholly owned, the report said, citing unidentified Mitsui executives. Mitsui wants to become more competitive in the grains market, Nikkei said. A Tokyo-based Mitsui spokeswoman wouldn't confirm or deny the Nikkei report, declining to be identified in line with corporate policy. Calls to Sao Paulo-based Multigrain and Minnesota-based CHS went unanswered outside normal working hours. Mitsui paid $123.75 million to increase its stake in Multigrain to 39.35 percent, Japan's second-largest trading company said in October 2008. Multigrain in 2007 sold $200 million in new shares to Mitsui and CHS, Mitsui said. Multigrain owns in excess of 100,000 hectares of farm land, equal to 2 percent of the total cultivated land of Japan, Mitsui said in a 2007 statement. To contact the reporters on this story: Yuriy Humber in Tokyo at yhumber@bloomberg.net; Ichiro Suzuki in Tokyo at isuzuki@bloomberg.net

Government-driven knowledge networks as precursors to emerging sectors: A case of the hydrogen energy sector in Korea Hyundo Choi*, Sangook Park**‡ and Jeong-dong Lee† + Author Affiliations *Hyundo Choi, Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program, College of Engineering, Seoul National University, San 56-1, Shillim-Dong, Gwanak-Gu, Seoul 151-742, South Korea. e-mail: image97@snu.ac.kr **Sangook Park, Science and Technology Policy Research Unit, The Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 9QE, UK. e-mail: sangook.park@gmail.com †Jeong-dong Lee, Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program, College of Engineering, Seoul National University, San 56-1, Shillim-Dong, Gwanak-Gu, Seoul 151-742, South Korea. e-mail: leejd@snu.ac.kr ↵‡Main author for correspondence. Abstract The government-driven knowledge network of the hydrogen energy sector in Korea provides a good case study for an R&D network incorporating necessary building blocks; it can be regarded as a precursor to an emerging sector even before business relationships form, especially one which involves emerging technologies. Using the social network analysis method, the R&D network is presented in this article. The results show that public research organizations and large firms are key actors with strong collaborative relations, and that they engage in clusters spanning over existing sectors. A government, as a network organizer and manager, could provide the necessary initiatives to facilitate the sharing of risks and solidifying the knowledge base for an emerging sector.

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development: An International Journal Volume 22, Issue 6, 2010 Online Sample       Subscribe Increasing to 10 issues in 2011 ISSN: 1464-5114 (electronic) 0898-5626 (paper) Publication Frequency: 10 issues per year Subjects: Economic Geography; Entrepreneurship; Regional Geography - Human Geography; Publisher: Routledge Issue Purchase: US$171.42 - buy now     add to cart      Share  Add to marked list  Link  Alert me View new articles ahead of the print edition Editorial Social entrepreneurship and enterprise: International and innovation perspectives Elizabeth Chell; Katerina Nicolopoulou; Mine Karataş-Özkan Pages 485 - 493 Full Text PDF | Full Text HTML | Abstract References | Request Permissions | Related Articles  Buy now Original Articles Integrating social entrepreneurship and conflict engagement for regional development in divided societies Victor J. Friedman; Helena Desivilya Pages 495 - 514 Full Text PDF | Full Text HTML | Abstract References | Request Permissions | Cited By | Related Articles  Buy now A process-based view of social entrepreneurship: From opportunity identification to scaling-up social change in the case of San Patrignano Francesco Perrini; Clodia Vurro; Laura A. Costanzo Pages 515 - 534 Full Text PDF | Full Text HTML | Abstract References | Request Permissions | Related Articles  Buy now Social entrepreneurship and innovation: Self-organization in an indigenous context Paul Tapsell; Christine Woods Pages 535 - 556 Full Text PDF | Full Text HTML | Abstract References | Request Permissions | Related Articles  Buy now Diversity management for innovation in social enterprises in the UK Ruth Bridgstock; Fiona Lettice; Mustafa F. Özbilgin; Ahu Tatli Pages 557 - 574 Full Text PDF | Full Text HTML | Abstract References | Request Permissions | Related Articles  Buy now Different types of social entrepreneurship: The role of geography and embe

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