The concentration of people with diverse socio-cultural backgrounds in particular geographic areas may boost the creation of new ideas, knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. In this paper we measure the impact of the size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the innovativeness of host regions. For this purpose we construct a panel of data on 170 regions in Europe (NUT...

Abstract We investigate whether firm performance is related to the accumulated stock of technological knowledge associated with Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and, if so, firm’s history in 4IR technology development affects such a relationship. exploit rich longitudinal matched patent-firm data set on population large firms that filed patents at European Patent Office (EPO) between 2009 and...

Wideband impulse response measurements have been made in residential and light industrial areas of Ottawa, at 29 GHz. Based upon these measured data, we have estimated the parameters of adaptive equalizers that would be required for LMCS/LMDS systems receiver over a range of bit rates. The results should be useful as a guide to specifying modulation schemes and a channel model for evaluation of...

The hESC research with recent developments has become one of the most desirable fields for scientist. reason behind such an approach is basically great potential to treat and cure human race very incurable diseases. Countries around world have amended their policies regards stem cells in a way as enhance advantage cell market trillion-dollar market. procedure involving patentable invention time...

The aim of the article is to solve scientific problem outlining issue protection patent law objects created using artificial intelligence technologies, and establish whether it possible recognize technologies as inventor at present stage development legal systems. Philosophical, comparative-legal system-structural methods were used in research process. Based on analysis European Patent Conventi...

this paper using endogenous growth models based on research and development, has investigated two economic relations in three groups of countries included developed countries, developing countries and a mixed group of both mentioned ones. at first, the effects of r&d; activities on patent growth have examined and then the relation between volume of patent and growth rate in these groups has sur...

This case report was an attempt to present the importance of diagnostic echocardiography and closure of a patent foramen ovale in carcinoid heart disease. Herein, we present a case of a 48-year-old woman with a carcinoid metastasis presenting with tricuspid regurgitation, pulmonic stenosis, patent foramen ovale, and borderline left ventricular ejection fraction on an echocardiogram. Surgical in...

persistent patent urachus with other accompanying anomalies like urethral obstruction and uroperitoniumquickly deteriorates animal conditions which necessitate prompt surgical intervention and animal salvage. a10-day-old calf was referred to clinic with mildly distended abdomen, history of umbilical dribbling and nosigns of normal urination since birth. on clinical laboratory results and ancill...