Odesa geographers share the pain of a great loss – passing Oleh Ivanovich Shabliy, which happened on January 14, 2023. Ukrainian and world Geographical Science lost bright talented scientist, powerful organizer geographical research cartographic developments, an ardent patriot Ukraine, intellectual educator mentor, sincere sociable person.

This study builds on developments in transaction cost economics to examine how institutional environment and transaction (project) characteristics affect governance of inter-firm alliances. The focus is on the choice between equity and contractual alliance forms under differing regimes of intellectual property protection and other national institutional features. Empirical results identify tran...

Nowadays innovation and collaboration are strategic issues for enterprises to remain competitive in the global market. Many new developments are carried out with external partners, including universities and research institutions aiming to generate novel solutions in order to improve business performance and sustainability. However, the balance between intellectual property protection and intel...

Algorithmic historiography was proposed by Eugene Garfield in collaboration with Irving Sher in the 1960s, but further developed only recently into HistCiteTM with Alexander Pudovkin. As in history writing, HistCiteTM reconstructs by drawing intellectual lineages. In addition to cited references, however, documents can be attributed a multitude of other variables such as title words, keywords, ...

Due to the enormous amount of research publications are available, perceiving the growth of scientific knowledge even in one’s own specialise field is a challenge task. It would be helpful if we could provide scientists with knowledge visualisation tools to discover the existence of a scientific paradigm and movements of such paradigms. This chapter introduces the state of the art of visualisin...

Reflecting on the governance of smart cities, the state-of-the-art this paper advances offers a critique of recent city ranking and future Internet accounts of their development. Armed with these critical insights, it goes on to explain smart cities in terms of the social networks, cultural attributes and environmental capacities, vis-a-vis, vital ecologies of the intellectual capital, wealth c...

intellectual developments, political movements and cultural policies of government during the pahlavi era, played a significant role in formation and developing of important tendencies of iranian modern painting. the present article, based on the analytic approaches, investigates the influence of the leftist, nationalistic and islamist movements on art, and simultaneously studies the role of go...

Over the last few decades, countries belonging to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) all had to revise their intellectual property systems. These revisions resulted at first from bilateral pressure of major trading partners such as the US and EU, then from the WTO-TRIPS Agreement and more recently from bilateral Free Trade Agreements. To observe the IP developments in ASEAN over...