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Why has cultural economics ignored copyright? 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Ruth Towse 《Journal of Cultural Economics》2008,32(4):243-259
My stance is that copyright policy should be viewed as part of cultural policy; cultural economists have had a great deal
to say about subsidy and cultural policy but very little about copyright, though cultural economics is well placed to analyse
copyright as an incentive to creativity in the creative industries because of its understanding of cultural policy and of
artists’ labour markets. The article contrasts subsidy and copyright as policy tools and briefly discusses two current policy
problems in relation to copyright—regulating copyright collection societies and the so-called ‘copyright levy’—arguing that
these are the sort of issues cultural economists could (and should) be dealing with.
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Ruth TowseEmail: |
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Douglas S. Noonan 《Journal of Cultural Economics》2007,31(4):293-310
This report focuses on state government appropriations to state arts agencies (SAA), a primary figure in arts and cultural
policy in the United States. A dynamic panel-data estimator can identify the fiscal, institutional, and demographic determinants
on SAA appropriations. Agency budgets are particularly sensitive to past appropriations, past state revenues and NEA grants,
some demographic variables, party control of state government, and state budgeting rules. Federal funds attract, rather than
crowd out, state appropriations. While the influence of some demographic variables may be shifting over time, income growth
continues to explain much of SAA appropriations.
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Douglas S. NoonanEmail: |
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Jason Potts Stuart Cunningham John Hartley Paul Ormerod 《Journal of Cultural Economics》2008,32(3):167-185
We propose a new definition of the creative industries in terms of social network markets. The extant definition of the creative
industries is based on an industrial classification that proceeds in terms of the creative nature of inputs and the intellectual
property nature of outputs. We propose, instead, a new market-based definition in terms of the extent to which both demand
and supply operate in complex social networks. We review and critique the standard creative industries definitions and explain
why we believe a market-based social network definition offers analytic advance. We discuss some empirical, analytic and policy
implications of this new definition.
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Jason PottsEmail: |
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Isabelle Laboulais 《Minerva》2008,46(1):17-36
The revolutionary period in France marked a turning point in the history of the profession of mining engineering and its relation
to the State. This essay outlines the changing requirements of the revolutionary government, and describes the ways in which
the State and its engineering professionals responded to the challenge of combining science and practice.
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Isabelle LaboulaisEmail: |
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This essay describes China’s participation in international science organizations during the past two decades. It argues that,
whilst progress has been made, serious problems remain. It concludes that increased attention to communication and exchange,
and the creation of a favourable international image in science and technology are important priorities for China.
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Ang XuEmail: |
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Edgeir Benum 《Minerva》2007,45(4):365-387
This essay explores how the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Norway became linked into a
science policy discourse that radiated throughout the developed world. Despite political differences, this discourse changed
forever the expectations by which Norway’s universities and its fundamental research institutions were to operate.
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Edgeir BenumEmail: |
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Assessing cultural values: developing an attitudinal scale 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Effective measurement of cultural value is often elusive because of its multidimensional nature. It is also influenced by
sociodemographic characteristics (manifest variables) and attitudinal characteristics (latent variables) of populations. While
the former is easily available to researchers, the latter has not been fully studied. This paper suggests the use of a cultural
worldview scale that was developed to measure cultural attitudes of people, using factor and cluster analysis. Four factors
comprise the scale: cultural linkages, recognition of cultural values, cultural loss and preservation of traditions and customs.
Some advantages of using this scale are demonstrated, and relationships with sociodemographic variables are investigated.
Managerial and policy implications are discussed.
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Jeff BennettEmail: |
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Alan L. Feld 《Journal of Cultural Economics》2008,32(4):275-279
This paper was presented at the symposium dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the publication of Patrons Despite Themselves: Taxpayers and Arts Policy (Feld et al. 1983), held by the Association for Cultural Economics International, Boston, June 2008. Patrons Despite Themselves raised and tried to answer a number of important questions of policy concerning indirect government support for the arts.
These questions have continued salience for what we see in our museums and hear in our concert halls. The primary source of
federal indirect aid in the U.S. continues to derive from the deduction in the federal income tax for contributions to not-for-profit
cultural institutions. On the other hand, there has been a series of recent challenges to the tax-exempt status of charitable
institutions.
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Alan L. FeldEmail: |
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Peder Anker 《Minerva》2007,45(4):417-434
Buckminster Fuller’s experiences in the Navy became a model for his ecological design projects and suggestions for the global
management of ‘Spaceship Earth’. Inspired by technocratic ideas of the 1930s, Fuller envisaged, in the 1970s, an elitist world
without politics, in which designers were at the helm, steering the planet out of its environmental crises.
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Peder AnkerEmail: |
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Trade in information goods is particularly sensitive to the strength of intellectual property rights (IPR) and encounters
an apparently different pattern of imitation threat compared with manufacturing trade, but the information goods trade–IPR
nexus is less systematically investigated. This article analyzes whether and how U.S. information goods exports are sensitive
to national differences in IPR protection and the degree of threat-of-imitation from the dynamic perspective. Employing the
technique of instrumental variables for a dynamic panel model to consider the hysteretic effect and controlling the endogeneity
problem, the empirical results show that the strength of the importing country’s IPR protection overall exhibits a trade-enhancing
effect, supporting the standpoint that stronger IPR protection will induce more trade. Moreover, we adopt the piracy rate
as a proxy for threat-of-imitation to examine its role on the information goods trade–IPR nexus. Empirical findings validate
the prevalence of the market expansion effect wherever the degree of imitation threat of importing countries is high or low,
because the technology level and production cost of reproduction are very low. It implies that the existing theory on threat-of-imitation
may not apply to the information goods trade.
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Yi-Ju HuangEmail: |
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Laurel Smith-Doerr 《Minerva》2008,46(1):1-16
Many graduate programmes in science now require courses in ethics. However, little is known about their reception or use.
Using websites and interviews, this essay examines ethics requirements in the field of biosciences in three countries (the
United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Italy) between 2000 and 2005. Evidence suggests that current policies may
be ineffective, and that scientists who take ethical issues seriously are seen as exceptional.
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Laurel Smith-DoerrEmail: |
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The sales effect of word of mouth: a model for creative goods and estimates for novels 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
Jonathan Beck 《Journal of Cultural Economics》2007,31(1):5-23
Weekly sales of creative goods—like music records, movies, or books—usually peak shortly after release and then decline quickly.
In many cases, however, they follow a hump-shaped pattern where sales increase for some time. A popular explanation for this
phenomenon is word of mouth among a population of heterogeneous buyers, but previous studies typically assume buyer homogeneity
or neglect word of mouth altogether. In this paper, I study a model of new-product diffusion with heterogeneous buyers that
allows for a quantification of the sales effect of word of mouth. The model includes Christmas sales as a special case. All
parameters have an intuitive interpretation. Simulation results suggest that the parameters are estimable for data that are
not too volatile and that cover a sufficiently large part of a title’s life cycle. I estimate the model for four exemplary
novels using scanner data on weekly sales.
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Jonathan BeckEmail: |
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Previous literature has documented the impact of critics on audience choices of movies. We investigate three issues regarding professional critics in the motion picture industry. First we document whether and to what extent critics and their recommendations exhibit a statistical bias toward specific studios. We show that reviews by a number of critics are significantly affected by the film distributor’s identity. A second question is whether audiences are able to distinguish between biased and unbiased critics. We cannot support the view that audiences put less weight on the views of biased critics; in fact, they may listen to them more. Third, we try to characterize critics who are more prone to bias. Surprisingly, but in accord with reputation models, we find that more reputable critics may be more biased; in particular, critics based in L.A. tend to significantly prefer specific studios.
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Suman BasuroyEmail: |
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For academic administrators, the management of research remains a matter more of hope than expectation. It has proved particularly
difficult to measure quality. Managers typically view research as an ‹asset’. This essay argues that it is more useful to
view research and its management as ‹process’, and explores the implications of doing so for managers and researchers alike.
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Paul H. J. HendriksEmail: |
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Chiara Verbano Karen Venturini Giorgio Petroni Anna Nosella 《Journal of Cultural Economics》2008,32(1):3-34
Given the limited number of studies on this topic, the aim of this study is to better understand the characteristics of art
restoration firms in Italy, with particular reference to their use of innovative technologies such as laser technology. The
paper is supported by a survey conducted in a sample of 100 companies. The factors that have led firms to adopt or resist
the adoption of the laser were identified and analysed. The results show that the main determinants of laser adoption are
collaborative activities between the firms and universities and specific requests made by public institutions to use this
technology.
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Chiara VerbanoEmail: |
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Michael Hutter Christian Knebel Gunnar Pietzner Maren Schäfer 《Journal of Cultural Economics》2007,31(4):247-261
The article tests a couple of hypotheses relating to markets where demand is not taken as a given, but subject to sophisticated
and encompassing price-building strategies. The study uses a data set that provides quoted dealer prices for medium-sized
works of 100 leading visual artists from 1970 to 2004. These data are compared with auction price results for works by the
same artists. The study reports significant discrepancies with respect to the relationship between the age of artists and
prices paid for their works in the two markets, and with respect to general price developments in the two markets as measured
by indices.
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Michael HutterEmail: |
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Matthew Stanley 《Minerva》2008,46(2):181-194
This paper argues that that political context of British science popularization in the inter-war period was intimately tied
to contemporary debates about religion and science. A leading science popularizer, the Quaker astronomer A.S. Eddington, and
one of his opponents, the materialist Chapman Cohen, are examined in detail to show the intertwined nature of science, philosophy,
religion, and politics.
Matthew Stanley is associate professor in the Gallatin School at New York University. He conducts research on the history of the physical sciences as well as the history of science and religion. 相似文献
Matthew StanleyEmail: |
Matthew Stanley is associate professor in the Gallatin School at New York University. He conducts research on the history of the physical sciences as well as the history of science and religion. 相似文献
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The Governance of University Knowledge Transfer: A Critical Review of the Literature 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Universities have long been involved in knowledge transfer activities. Yet the last 30 years have seen major changes in the
governance of university–industry interactions. Knowledge transfer has become a strategic issue: as a source of funding for
university research and (rightly or wrongly) as a policy tool for economic development. Universities vary enormously in the
extent to which they promote and succeed in commercializing academic research. The identification of clear-cut models of governance
for university–industry interactions and knowledge transfer processes is not straightforward. The purpose of this article
is to critically discuss university knowledge transfer models and review the recent developments in the literature on research
collaborations, intellectual property rights and spin-offs, those forms of knowledge transfer that are more formalized and
have been institutionalized in recent years. The article also addresses the role played by university knowledge transfer organizations in promoting commercialization
of research results.
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Alessandro MuscioEmail: Email: |
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Mario Coccia 《Minerva》2009,47(1):31-50
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the nature of bureaucratization within public research bodies and its relationship
to scientific performance, focusing on an Italian case-study. The main finding is that the bureaucratization of the research
sector has two dimensions: public research labs have academic bureaucratization since researchers spend an increasing part
of their time in administrative matters (i.e., preparing grant applications, managing grants/projects, and so on); whereas
universities mainly have administrative bureaucratization generated by the increase over time of administrative staff in comparison
with researchers and faculty. In addition, I show that research units with higher bureaucratization have lower scientific
performance.
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Mario CocciaEmail: |
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Andrea Bonaccorsi 《Minerva》2008,46(3):285-315
The article addresses the issue of dynamics of science, in particular of new sciences born in twentieth century and developed
after the Second World War (information science, materials science, life science). The article develops the notion of search
regime as an abstract characterization of dynamic patterns, based on three dimensions: the rate of growth, the degree of internal
diversity of science and the associated dynamics (convergent vs. proliferating), and the nature of complementarity. The article
offers a conceptual discussion for the argument that new sciences follow a different pattern than established sciences and
presents preliminary evidence drawn from original data in particle physics, computer science and nanoscience.
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Andrea BonaccorsiEmail: |