When the collection of phonetic instruments of the Phonetic Institute of the Hamburg University came to the HAPS Dresden in 2005, it included also some small mechanic voices, which can produce single sounds as well as few simple words. These voices are well-known in the phonetic literature as an early attempt to provide hard-hearing people with automatic training tools, following a proposal of ...

Under pressure from pharmaceutical multinationals, among others, the government of India removed the phase-lag rule and now allows foreign pharmaceutical companies to conduct drug trials in India simultaneously with same-phase trials in other countries. The old rule was designed to protect Indians from being used as guinea pigs in the testing of unproved drugs of foreign origin; trials of domes...

Recent research has documented empirical evidence of informed trading ahead of major corporate events such as earnings announcements, mergers and acquisitions and corporate bankruptcies. However, no such evidence exists ahead of corporate spinoffs (SP). Using a sample of 426 corporate SPs from 1996 to 2013, we document pervasive activity in options of the parent company, but not in stocks, that...

In recent years entrepreneurship research has increasingly interpreted new firm emergence in the light of the context the potential or real founder is living and working in. This is especially true for university spin-offs, a type of new firms that gives rise to great hopes for policymakers and technology transfer institutions. The aim of this paper is to analyze what is more influential: speci...

This paper provides an overview of the relationship between entrepreneurship university spin-off activity and economic growth. It suggests the need for a diversified university structure, and that spin-offs are a misleading measure of the most important activity for technology transfer which remains the training and education of highly qualified scientists and technologists. It argues that a li...