{"title":"Asset Value Protection Agreements: An Alternative View of 21st Century Economic Partnership Agreements","authors":"Dan Ciuriak","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2874526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2874526","url":null,"abstract":"Modern deep and comprehensive economic partnership agreements are different than their predecessors in many ways: they seek to break down behind-the-border barriers, facilitate global value chains, smooth the way for e-commerce, establish rules to support the digital transformation, and other objectives. An overlooked feature is their aim to protect the value of existing commercial assets, especially intellectual property. When we confront this central feature, the implications of these agreements for the national interest in trade negotiations take on sharply different contours. This note explores this feature of modern trade agreements.","PeriodicalId":186347,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation Systems (Topic)","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125076404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brexit and Trade and Economic Relations between Russia and the UK","authors":"A. Knobel, Alexander Firanchuk","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2815454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2815454","url":null,"abstract":"The UK’s exit from the EU can aff ect Russia primarily through an increase in volatility in the world markets and the consequent reduction in mediumterm oil prices. Impacting Russia directly through trade is less likely. First, the United Kingdom accounts for about 2% of Russia’ trade turnover. Second, Russia’s exports are mainly raw fuel (84% in 2015), which can be easily redirected to other markets; in addition, about half of these exports are gas trading. The structure of imports from UK is very similar to that from other EU countries. The impact on Russia through trade in services seems more likely, as the UK’s share in Russia’s services turnover is about 6%.","PeriodicalId":186347,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation Systems (Topic)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133295780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to Regulate Disruptive Innovation - From Facts to Data","authors":"Wulf A. Kaal, E. Vermeulen","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2808044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2808044","url":null,"abstract":"Disruptive innovation creates increasing regulatory challenges. The reason for this is simple: Regulation is usually reactive, responding to facts. However, we currently live in a world of data, not facts. Regulation must therefore be proactive and dynamically responsive to data and trends. This paper discusses the following questions: (1) Why should regulators be proactive?, (2) When should regulators respond?, (3) What should regulators respond to? and (4) How should regulators respond? Using a dataset comprising over 77,000 venture capital deals with over 35,000 companies in the United States from 2005 to 2015, the paper shows how investment data can provide important feedback on innovation trends and associated risks for regulators, optimize the timing of regulation, and support anticipatory rulemaking.","PeriodicalId":186347,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation Systems (Topic)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121492293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Canada and the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Considerations for the Ratification Debate","authors":"Dan Ciuriak","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2798438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2798438","url":null,"abstract":"The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has generated a vigorous debate that features widely differing estimates of its economic impact and claims regarding its broader significance in terms of setting the rules for global trade and in terms of its geopolitical impact. This policy brief analyzes the relevance of six studies that have featured prominently in the debate about the size of the TPP's economic impact in light of the publication of the TPP text, and examines critically the TPP's potential for positive economic spillovers on third parties, its role as an instrument of economic policy more broadly, its role as an instrument for leveraging progress on non-economic objectives, and its role as an instrument of geopolitics. It draws conclusions for Canada's position on the agreement as a contribution to the ratification debate.","PeriodicalId":186347,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation Systems (Topic)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134190699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding Incoterms 2010","authors":"Alok Pathak","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2712669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2712669","url":null,"abstract":"The article helps in understanding Incoterms, especially the aspect of \"transfer of risk and responsibilities\" of the Buyer and Seller in an International Trade transaction. Sometimes the costs associated with an Incoterms may lead to a “false impression” about the responsibilities of your seller and can lead to unforeseen circumstances. It is this “false impression” that this articles addresses. The work is primarily descriptive in nature.","PeriodicalId":186347,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation Systems (Topic)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127613834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Innovation Revolution: Harnessing India's Diversity","authors":"V. Kaul","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2517855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2517855","url":null,"abstract":"Diversity in India gives rise to different challenges that can be met by offering diverse solutions in terms of products, services and their delivery systems. Businesses are using this diversity to develop products, services and supply chains that leverage the diversity of talents and capabilities in a virtuous cycle of innovation. One of the key factors of an innovative society is the diversity of \b\u001dits capabilities and talents. India has plenty of that. All it requires is the harnessing of this asset with a clear vision and a missionary zeal.It is argued that solutions to India’s problems need to be developed indigenously keeping in mind the diversity and abundance of India’s resources, people’s aspiration levels and the ecological limitations of nature. Persistence of several economic and social problems needs to be examined and factored in. To be specific, there is a need to examine the linkages between the geographic, social and economic diversity of India and the socio-economic problems that the country is facing. In general, there is an argument that diversity leads to conflict. However, it is argued in this paper that there is a positive relationship between diversity and innovation, provided the governance systems recognize and support this linkage. The present paper therefore, proposes a framework linking diversity to innovation.","PeriodicalId":186347,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation Systems (Topic)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124949121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"System Innovation and Transition Processes in Russian Technology Platforms","authors":"V. Kiselev, Y. Simachev","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2580893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2580893","url":null,"abstract":"This case study is based on the template proposed by the OECD/TIP steering group of the “System innovations” project and devoted to reviewing Russian technology platforms’ transition processes that may be regarded as an example of a system innovations phenomenon in Russia.","PeriodicalId":186347,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation Systems (Topic)","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114860045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identification and Comparison of Structural Factors of Innovation Capability in ESCO With Desirable Status","authors":"F. Jalali, A. Khamseh","doi":"10.33844/IJOL.2014.60239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33844/IJOL.2014.60239","url":null,"abstract":"The present study describes the identification and comparison of structural factors of innovation capability in Esfahan Steel Company (ESCO). Innovation is a crucial factor in growth, success, and survival of organizations. Since the innovation for organizations is not possible without the level of innovation capabilities and the need for steel products and imports of goods from developed countries has greatly increased, this study intends to investigate the factors affecting the subject that may be able to increase the production and reduce the need to import it. Evaluation of the innovation capability factors of ESCO compared with its desired status in industry can help companies develop innovative strategies and also achieve organizational goals. Statistical analysis methods and mean comparison test by examining the structure of the innovation capability in the form of a standard questionnaire was employed. The findings suggest that the innovation capability in the existing situation of ESCO in comparison with the desired situation is significantly different.","PeriodicalId":186347,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation Systems (Topic)","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123324190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The United States Response to Emerging Technological Powers","authors":"Frederick M. Abbott","doi":"10.4337/9781783471256.00037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783471256.00037","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past 10 to 15 years the world economy has been transformed by rapid development in a number of the larger developing countries, such as Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa. This transformation in some developing countries has brought with it profound changes. Increasing technical capacity in the emerging economy countries has placed pressure on wages in developed countries and hastened their shift from goods-based to service-based economies. Competition for natural resources has become more intense as demand for them has risen. Financial markets have become increasingly interconnected, seemingly heightening risks. It is generally a time of stress in the global economy.<br><br>In such an environment, it is not surprising that national governments are inclined to pursue “protective” or defensive technology agendas. Technology is perceived as an “asset”. That asset is protected in two basic ways: (1) by physical and technical defenses, such as plant security guards and anti- cyber- attack software; and (2) by intellectual property legal barriers, such as patents. <br><br>Over the coming decade it seems doubtful that the main preoccupation of IP policymakers in the United States will be over technology leakage to Chinese, Indian or Brazilian enterprises. Rather the concern will likely be how US companies can maintain competitive advantage in the technology arena. <br><br>Predictably, there will be two tracks of effort to maintain US competitive advantage in high technology products. The first will be “offensive” in terms of investing in innovation. Here the possibilities have been fairly well defined.<br><br>In defensive terms, can and should patents be used as a means to deter Chinese, Indian, Brazilian and other emerging market enterprises from increasingly penetrating the lucrative US consumer market, or other foreign markets? In the late 1980s, US companies turned to Section 337 of the Trade Act of 1930 in efforts to forestall Japanese high-tech entry into the US market. Those efforts may have borne some fruit at the margins, but did little to affect the overall balance of trade. What they mainly did was to instruct Japanese companies regarding how to “game” the US economic system, resulting in quite sophisticated IP strategies followed by Japanese companies.Today, at least in theory, US- based enterprises can limit import penetration of high technology products based on patents because US-based enterprises (and European and Japanese enterprises) are the preponderant owners of US patents.<br><br>Chinese enterprises have increased their patent filings in the United States, but not yet in very large numbers. However, it seems likely this will change as a reflection of the rapid increase in patenting within China, and use of the Patent Cooperation Treaty system. This raises the possibility that during the course of the next decade Chinese enterprises will begin to pursue infringement claims against companies based in the United","PeriodicalId":186347,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation Systems (Topic)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127092503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Тать�?на Трофимова, Любовь Геннадьевна Серова, Юрий Иванович Ефимычев, Александр Геннадьевич Шипилов
{"title":"Оценка Состояния Инновационной Сферы Нижегородской Области (Assessment of Innovation Sphere of Nizhny Novgorod Region)","authors":"Тать�?на Трофимова, Любовь Геннадьевна Серова, Юрий Иванович Ефимычев, Александр Геннадьевич Шипилов","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2420931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2420931","url":null,"abstract":"<b>Russian Abstract:</b> В статье рассматриваются вопросы инновационного развития Нижегородской области; проводится анализ инновационной сферы, выявляются причины, влияющие на её развитие; предложен механизм повышения конкурентоспособности предприятий на основе внедрения инновационных разработок. <b>English Abstract:</b> In the paper addresses issues of innovative development of the Nizhny Novgorod region, the analysis of the innovation sphere, identifies the factors influencing its development, the mechanism of enhanced competitiveness through the introduction of innovative developments.","PeriodicalId":186347,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation Systems (Topic)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125324957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}