e nergy consumption has increased significantly in iran during the recent decades. in this study, an inter-industrial model has been improved to investigate the sources of the changes in the energy consumption of the country. the input-output tables of iran for the years 1988 and 2001 have been employed as the database of the model. the innovation of this research allows the researchers to stud...

Despite the growing literature on Open Source Software (OSS) innovation, knowledge about gender issues within the OSS innovation process is inadequate. This paper begins with some introduction on OSS innovation process, it then continues with the discussion of the current problems on gender and OSS innovations. The paper argues that appropriate feminist approach may be useful in augmenting the ...

this paper examines the relationship between environmental law and intellectual property law in light of international documents and procedures. the key question raised here is the role of intellectual property law in conservation of global environment. in this regard, we can express two general approaches: the neutral theory of intellectual property right and the systemic theory of intellectua...

this study is aimed to assess the strategy improving human resources by using creativity and innovation.surely, the most important component in the success of organizations is the use of creativity and innovation in today's world. human resources, the most essential source of developing the innovation, should be believed as the basis of stability and resistance in a competitive world, inside, o...

Open innovation is becoming an important strategy in software development. Following this strategy, software companies are increasingly opening up their platforms to third-party products. However, opening up software platforms to third-party applications raises serious concerns about critical quality requirements, such as security, performance, privacy and proprietary ownership. Adopting approp...

We examine exogenous changes in state corporate income taxes over the 1988-2006 period and find that tax decreases significantly boost both the quantity, measured by the number of patents, and the quality, measured by citations per patent, of innovative output, while tax increases have little impact on innovation. Most of the impact of tax changes on innovation occurs two or more years after th...