Strong intellectual property regimes are those that protect owners and producers of knowledge and inventions by excluding others from the exploitation of such assets, while weak regimes are those that encourage the widespread use of knowledge-assets, resulting from research and development investments undertaken by firms and individuals (Ordover 1991: 43).
Iranians angered by American backing for the deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and by western exploitation of oil assets stormed the US embassy in Tehran on 4 November 1979.
However, current forest and land allocation policies and politics support economic activities that promote the exploitation of forest assets.
Exploitation of biological assets such as microorganisms and their secreted by-products utilization has been suggested as possible environmental alternatives over these chemical and physical methods [3].
It argues that both higher levels of diversification and greater relatedness signal superior capabilities and available resources to prospective partners that will facilitate exploration and exploitation of technological assets in an alliance.
Be it too many people chasing too few resources, the over exploitation of natural assets, declining returns from land and sea, climate is seen to play a major part.
And, as in Conrad's time, London's imperial connections are helping to facilitate the exploitation of this asset-rich nation.
One of its core objectives is to help drive innovation around the exploitation of open data assets.
Putin's policies rest, it can be speculated, on an analysis of international developments which sees a progressive weakening of both the United States and the EU, contrasted with a strengthening of Russia through the recovery of its internal political coherence and the better exploitation of its energy assets.
This will be implemented to a specific peripheral small island region, the island of Lefkada-Greece, seeking the integrated development of the island with emphasis on the sustainable exploitation of local tourist assets.
Late 1960s The discovery of North Sea oil off the Scottish coast leads to considerable resentment of London's exploitation of a "Scottish" asset.
