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Il nuovo dispotismo del capitale. La trasformazione del capitalismo transnazionale post crisi 2008
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Reaping the Benefits of Patenting Activities: Does the Size of Patentees Matter?
No full textThis paper is based upon a survey on a regional sample of Italian inventors who, between
1991 and 2005, were named in patent applications filed at the European Patent Office. Their features and patenting activities are examined in relation to the size of their organizations. Compared to those from medium and large companies, the inventors working in small firms are less productive in terms of patent applications. However, there is no difference in the average quality of patented inventions of the two groups. Nevertheless, one-third of small applicants evaluates negatively its patenting experience, while this is true for only a tiny fraction of larger patentees. On the basis of further interviews, we find that these assessments are particularly influenced by the different capacity to enforce patent rights
Note bibliografiche: Schettino F. e Clementi F. (2022), Crisi, disuguaglianze e povertà. Le iniquità del capitalismo, da Lehman Brothers alla Covid-19, II edizione aggiornata, Napoli: La Città del Sole
No full textRecensione a Schettino F. e Clementi F. (2022), Crisi, disuguaglianze e povertà. Le iniquità del capitalismo, da Lehman Brothers alla Covid-19, II edizione aggiornata, Napoli: La Città del Sol
Determinants of patent withdrawals: evidence from a sample of Italian applications with the EPO
Full text linkThis paper analyses the propensity to withdraw European patent applications within a regional sample of Italian applicants. The procedure for obtaining a granted patent from the EPO is composed of a series of sequential and selective steps imposing additional costs to the applicants. Accordingly, we argue that early withdrawals - i.e. those occurring before the proper examination process begins - should be treated separately from late withdrawals. Our findings show the probability of an early withdrawal is higher for applicants with lower resources and competencies and rises with the number of backward citations added by EPO examiners to the original application. Late withdrawals, instead, are negatively affected by one factor only: the size of patent family, which approximates the sunk costs born by applicants in order to extend the geographical scope of patent protection. Such a limited explanation suggests that the (unobserved) interventions of EPO examiners are likely to play a significant role in inducing late withdrawals
All that glitters is not gold: polarization amid poverty reduction in Ghana
No full textGhana is an exceptional case in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) landscape. Together with a handful of other countries, Ghana offers the opportunity to analyze the distributional changes in the past two decades, since four comparable household surveys are available. In addition, unlike many other countries in SSA, Ghana's rapid growth translated into fast poverty reduction. A closer look at the distributional changes that occurred in the same period, however, suggests less optimism. The present paper develops an innovative methodology to analyze the distributional changes that occurred and their drivers, with a high degree of accuracy and granularity. Looking at the results from 1991 to 2012, the paper documents how the distributional changes over time hollowed out the middle of the Ghanaian household consumption distribution and increased the concentration of households around the highest and lowest deciles; there was a clear surge in polarization indeed. When looking at the drivers of polarization, household characteristics, educational attainment, and access to basic infrastructure all tended to increase over time the size of the upper and lower tails of the consumption distribution and, as a consequence, the degree of polarization
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Longitudinal coupling impedance of a particle traveling in PEC rings: A regularised analysis
No full textThe analysis of a charged particle traveling through one, two, or infinite conducting rings is presented. The problem is formulated in the spectral domain as integral equations of Fredholm type, solved by Galerkin's method employing entire domain functions factorising the correct edge behaviour of the unknown induced current. As a result, high accuracy and numerical stability are achieved. Numerical results are presented, proving the effectiveness of the method, and the parameters relevant to accelerator physics are calculated
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