The Dynamics Between Forward Citations and Price of Singleton Patents

In recent years, business practitioners are seen valuing patents on the basis of the market price that the patent can attract. Researchers have also looked into various patent latent variables and firm variables that influence the price of a patent. Forward citations of a patent are shown to play a role in determining price. Using patent auction price data (of Ocean Tomo now ICAP patent brokerage), we delve deeper into the role of forward citations. The successfully sold 167 singleton patents form the sample of our study. We found that, it is mainly the right tail of the citation distribution that explains the high prices of the patents falling on the right tail of the price distribution. There is consistency in the literature on the positive correlation between patent prices and forward citations. In this paper, we go deeper to understand this linear relationship through case studies. Case studies of patents with high and low citations are described in this paper to understand why some patents attracted high prices. We look into the role of additional patent latent variables like age, technology discipline, class and breadth of the patent in influencing citations that a patent receives.

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Gaygusuz v. Austria: Advancing the rights of non-citizens through litigation

Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft ◽

10.15203/ozp.1588.vol46iss1 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 46 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Ilker Atac

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Case Studies ◽

International Human Rights ◽

Works Councils ◽

International Court ◽

Local Actors ◽

International Human ◽

The Right

Focusing on migrant rights in Austria, this article illustrates how local actors use courts and litigation as avenues to claim rights for non-citizens. Adding to studies that have stressed the role of the international court in this process, I analyze such changes as a result of the interplay between international human rights frameworks and the capacities of local actors to mobilize resources, knowledge and expertise. This article presents two case studies in Austria, in which the entitlement to unemployment assistance (Notstandshilfe), and the right to stand as a candidate for works councils (Betriebsrat) and for the Chamber of Labour (Arbeiterkammer) were expanded to non-citizens.

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The Role of Committees in Rights Protection in Federal and State Parliaments in Australia

University of New South Wales Law Journal ◽

10.53637/tnqi3015 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 41 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Laura Grenfell ◽

Sarah Moulds

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

The Political ◽

Law And Order ◽

Federal Level ◽

Counter Terrorism ◽

Rights Protection ◽

External Stakeholders ◽

Emerging Culture ◽

The Right

This article offers a snapshot of how Australian parliamentary committees scrutinise Bills for their rights-compliance in circumstances where the political stakes are high and the rights impacts strong. It tests the assumption that parliamentary models of rights protection are inherently flawed when it comes to Bills directed at electorally unpopular groups such as bikies and terrorists by analysing how parliamentary committees have scrutinised rights-limiting anti-bikie Bills and counter-terrorism Bills. Through these case studies a more nuanced picture emerges, with evidence that, in the right circumstances, parliamentary scrutiny of ‘law and order’ can have a discernible rights-enhancing impact. The article argues that when parliamentary committees engage external stakeholders they can contribute to the development of an emerging culture of rights-scrutiny. While this emerging culture may not yet work to prevent serious intrusions into individual rights, at the federal level there are signs it may at least be capable of moderating these intrusions.

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Role of women entrepreneurs and NGOs in promoting entrepreneurship: case studies from Uttarakhand, India

Journal of Asia Business Studies ◽

10.1108/jabs-07-2015-0088 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 451-465 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Usha Lenka ◽

Sucheta Agarwal

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Women Entrepreneurs ◽

Entrepreneurial Learning ◽

Women Entrepreneurship ◽

Content Type ◽

Government Organizations ◽

Interview Method ◽

Depth Interview ◽

The Right

Purpose Women establish their enterprise for economic independence and empowerment. This study aims to identify the factors that promote women entrepreneurship in Uttarakhand, a state in India. Although, women have the potential to become entrepreneurs, they do not have the right opportunities to explore it. Therefore, the role of non-government organizations (NGOs) is imminent in supporting women's entrepreneurial cause. Design/methodology/approach The problems of women entrepreneurs during venture creation have been explored. Case studies of women entrepreneurs and NGOs operating in Uttarakhand have been developed through an in-depth interview method. Findings Entrepreneurial learning occurs because of certain personal, social and environmentally driven motivational factors. Entrepreneurial learning helps in the development of personal, social, managerial and entrepreneurial competencies. These competencies are essential for the performance of an enterprise. Practical implications This study provides directions to policymakers and researchers to focus on developmental programmes for women entrepreneurs. Originality/value This study explores a conceptual framework for the promotion of women entrepreneurship.

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Interrupting planetary urbanization: A view from Middle Eastern cities

Environment and Planning D Society and Space ◽

10.1177/0263775818759334 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 36 (3) ◽

pp. 439-455 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Azam Khatam ◽

Oded Haas

Keyword(s):

Middle East ◽

Urban Development ◽

Case Studies ◽

Middle Eastern ◽

The Poor ◽

Political Citizenship ◽

New City ◽

The Right ◽

The City

This paper argues that the ‘city’ as a political entity is significant in struggles over the ‘urban’, by identifying two moments of ‘differential urbanization’ in the Middle East. Our study in Iran and Palestine/Israel shows that the vision of the ‘city’ as a legitimizing space for political citizenship is at the heart of conflicting imaginaries: in Iran, ‘cities of revolution’ built through housing the poor around Tehran, and redistributive politics that stand on filling the ‘rural/urban gap’, and in Palestine, the new city of Rawabi as a city of Palestinian independence, where privatized urban development contrasts colonial spatialities with anti-colonial potentials. Thus, the right to the ‘urban’ involves claims for the ‘city’ that go beyond the capitalist logic of urbanization. This theorization points to a troubling gap in the planetary urbanization thesis, which moves from collapsing the ‘urban/non-urban’ divide into ‘concentrated’, extended’ and ‘differential’ urbanization to diminishing the role of distinct sociospatial configurations in claims over the ‘urban’. Our case studies show that examining the reconfiguration of inherited spatialities in the context of particular political regimes is imperative for epistemology of the ‘urban’ in its planetary stage. Urbanization otherwise remains an uninterrupted process towards a non-spatial ‘urban condition’.

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Censoring Revolution: the Lord Chamberlain and the Soviet Union

New Theatre Quarterly ◽

10.1017/s0266464x00007089 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 8 (32) ◽

pp. 305-312

Author(s):

Steve Nicholson

Keyword(s):

Soviet Union ◽

Case Studies ◽

Russian Revolution ◽

British Library ◽

Right Wing ◽

The Soviet Union ◽

The Right ◽

Unpublished Manuscripts ◽

The University

In two earlier articles, Steve Nicholson has explored ways in which the the right-wing theatre of the 1920s both shaped and reflected the prevailing opinions of the establishment – in NTQ29 (February 1992) looking at how the Russian Revolution was portrayed on the stage, and in NTQ30 (May 1992) at the ways in which domestic industrial conflicts were presented. He concludes the series with three case studies of the role of the Lord Chamberlain, on whose collection of unpublished manuscripts now housed in the British Library his researches have been based, in preventing more sympathetic – or even more objective – views of Soviet and related subjects from reaching the stage. His analysis is based on a study of the correspondence over the banning of Geo A. DeGray's The Russian Monk, Hubert Griffith's Red Sunday, and a play in translation by a Soviet dramatist, Sergei Tretiakov's Roar China. Steve Nicholson is currently Lecturer in Drama at the Workshop Theatre of the University of Leeds.

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