Essays about: "European Innovation Convention"
Found 5 essays containing the words European Innovation Convention.
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1. Understanding new expectations for democratic environmental governance : a policy analysis of an activist movement in the South-East of France
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : This paper is based at the nodal points of several phenomena, including political distrust in France, a European trend supporting public participation, a failed experiment of citizen assembly in France, and the organisation of a citizen collective to advocate for a replication of a similar citizen assembly, at the regional level, by environmental activists. In this context, I have conducted a policy analysis focusing particularly on the activist movement with the aim to provide insights into new expectations for democratic governance of environmental resources. READ MORE
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2. A Rhetorical Criticism of Google´s European Identification Strategies
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för retorikAbstract : This thesis examines Google’s Executive Chairman Eric E. Schmidt’s speech at the European Innovation Convention 2011 from the perspectives of Kenneth Burke’s dramatism and identification theories. In the wider context it aims to contribute to the analyses of human progress traced through the history of our technologies and inventions. READ MORE
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3. Traditional Knowledge and the Patent System - Irreconcilable differences or a simple case of mistaken identity?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : Traditional knowledge (TK) is in simple terms knowledge systems held by indigenous communities, often relating to their surrounding natural environment. Through globalisation and the increased availability of this knowledge as well as the implementation of intellectual property systems in the developing world TK and its relationship with the IPR-system has become a much debated and highly complicated issue. READ MORE
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4. The division of competences in the EU - a legal matter or political choice
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : This piece of work is focused on the use of the principle of subsidiarity in the legislative process of the European Union, taking as the starting point the work of the European Convention on the Future of Europe and the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) 2003-2004. It treats issues related to the division of competences in the EU, which the European Convention confronted in its work between March 2002 and June 2003 and, further-more, included in its proposal for a Constitutional Treaty. READ MORE
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5. Patenting Business Methods - American and European Patent Law After the State Street Case
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The 1998 State Street Bank &&semic Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group, Inc. case took American patent law into a new era. READ MORE
