Knowledge-based firms seeking competitive advantage often draw on the public knowledge stream – ideas embedded in public commons institutions – as the foundation for private knowledge – ideas firms protect through private intellectual property (IP) institutions. However, we have a limited understanding of the converse relationship: the impact of private knowledge strategies on public knowledge ...

Local daily newspapers have historically played an important role in U.S. democracy by providing citizens with information about local policy issues. However, recent decades struggled to compete new online platforms for readers’ attention. Private equity investors—who specialize reorganizing struggling firms distressed sectors—have entered the industry. How do these owners affect newspaper cont...

Protecting biodiversity has become a major goal in managing coastal forests in the Pacific Northwest--an area in which human activities have had a significant influence on landscape change. A complex pattern of public and private forest ownership, combined with new regulations for each owner group, raises questions about how well and how efficiently these policies achieve their biodiversity goa...

This paper analyses how the distribution of land property rights affects industrial takeoff and aggregate income through the demand side. We study a stylized economy composed of two sectors, agriculture and manufacturing. The former produces a single subsistence good while the latter is constituted of a continuum of markets producing distinct commodities. Following Murphy et al. [20] we model i...

the purpose of this research was identifying socio-economic characteristics affected on respondents’ participation in contract farming. the survey was conducted using structured questionnaire in populous states namely kedah, kelantan, terengganu, pahang, perak, selangor and johor in peninsular malaysia. a total of one-hundred and sixty seven ffv farmers were randomly selected and personally int...

Mr. UDALL of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, today I am introducing a bill to authorize a program to help states, local governments, and private groups protect open space while enabling ranchers and other private landowners to continue to use their lands for agriculture and other traditional uses. The bill, entitled the ‘‘Cooperative Landscape Conservation Act,’’ is based on provisions that were passed ...