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Patent Races with Dynamic Complementarity
Recent models of multi-stage R&D have shown that a system of weak intellectual property rights may lead to faster innovation by inducing firms to share intermediate technological knowledge. In this article I introduce a distinction between plain and sophisticated technological knowledge, which has not been noticed so far but plays a crucial role in determining how different appropriability rules affect the incentives to innovate. I argue that the positive effect of weak intellectual property regimes on the sharing of intermediate technological knowledge vanishes when technological knowledge is sophisticated, as is likely to be the case in many high tech industries.
Paying Positive to Go Negative: Advertisers' Competition and Media Reports
This paper analyzes a two-sided market for news where advertisers may pay a media outlet to conceal negative information about the quality of their own product (paying positive to avoid negative) and/or to disclose negative information about the quality of their competitors' products (paying positive to go negative). We show that whether advertisers have negative consequences on the accuracy of news reports or not ultimately depends on the extent of correlation among advertisers' products. Specifically, the lower the correlation among the qualities of the advertisers' products, the (weakly) higher the accuracy of the media outlet' reports. Moreover, when advertisers' products are correlated, a higher degree of competition in the market of the advertisers' products may decrease the accuracy of the media outlet's reports.
Los telómeros y el origen de la enfermedad
Este artículo recoge la presentación que la autora llevó a cabo de su carrera científica en el Foro de Encuentros, en Madrid, en Febrero de 2016En el presente texto se recoge la descripción de la trayectoria científica de María A. Blasco, Directora del Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas e investigadora española de prestigio internacional, contada por la propia autora, a través de un conjunto de breves apuntes o hitos que han ido jalonando esa carrera científica, enormemente prolífica y cargada de interés científico y social, la cual comenzó después de finalizar su licenciatura en Ciencias Biológicas en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, en cuyo Centro de Biología Molecular inició su andadura científica de la mano de Margarita Salas, prestigiosa científica de reconocimiento mundial y a quien entrevistó Encuentros Multidisciplinares en el año 2000, entrevista publicada en el Vol. II nº 1 de esta revista. Aparte de la importancia de su contenido, publicamos este texto como un ejemplo que puede servir como referencia para jóvenes investigadores o universitarios que están planteándose iniciar una carrera investigador
Appropriate counseling approach to disclose HIV status to HIV-infected children: Chiradzulu, Malawi
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A fractional-step method for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations related to a predictor-multicorrector algorithm
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