Chinese Junk Patents Flood Into Australia, Allowing Chinese Companies To...
Glynn Moody has the story. Let it not be said that intellectual property rights are not respected in China – they seem to be playing the game just as written!
View ArticleDodgy journals go for gold
“Gold Open Access” – where authors pay to have their papers published, and made freely available on line – is one response to the well documented predatory practices of commercial journal publishers...
View ArticlePiracy as opportunity
Many westerners have scolded me when I’ve told stories of the obscene amounts of music, movies and software I have pirated. What they fail to understand is that I used this mode of distribution for the...
View ArticleLibrarians spurn $3,000 “open access” offer
A journal’s editorial board resigns en masse over open access charges. Seems Taylor & Francis wanted $2,995 for an author to make an article open access. For readers unfamiliar with the academic...
View ArticleDon’t call them pirates. Please.
… but Microsoft and Apple did both got their start by copying. See also Mike Masnick’s commentary at techdirt.com
View ArticleDo multinational companies engage with regional innovation systems?
In Germany much more than in the UK, according to Simona Iammarino.
View ArticleRiots, growing inequality, in …. Sweden?
The Guardian reports that Despite Sweden’s reputation for equality, the rioting has exposed a faultline between a well-off majority and a minority, often young people with immigrant backgrounds, who...
View ArticleCopying trade secrets and catching up
From Ed Crooks in The Financial Times (register to get past paywall) US charges Sinovel with trade secret theft The US government has charged Sinovel, one of the largest Chinese wind turbine...
View ArticleCEOs: agents in turbulent monopoly markets
Gravity-defying CEO pay is not a payment for talent. It’s not looting by the executives, either. It’s the outcome of principal-agent relationship in a market where new technologies combined with...
View ArticleSan Francisco, New York, Washington: Iron Triangle of Rent
This map show where the higher paid jobs in the USA were concentrated in 2016. The map is from a recent paper by Maryann Feldman, Simona Iammarino and me; for more details, you can download the paper...
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