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Description:: This dissertation explores two factors that affect innovation. The first factor studied is extrinsic, namely, the legal environment. The second factor is a factor of input into innovation - culture of the inventors. The first chapter studies the impact of a weakened patent environment on research investments. Departing from the...
Keyword:: Research and Development, Patent, Innovation, and Culture
Subject:: Intellectual property and Finance
Creator:: Srinivasan, Sridhar
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14622 and etdadmin_upload_662046

Description:: This dissertation examines how the experience of migration and the context of reception influences religious ideas and practices. Using the experience of two branches of a Colombian Evangelical church, one in Miami, Florida and one in Madrid, Spain, I explore the extent to which context of reception and the experiences...
Keyword:: Religion, Immigration, and Culture
Subject:: Sociology
Creator:: Diego Felipe de los Rios
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 04/03/2019
Date Modified:: 04/03/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Research in cognitive and developmental psychology typically focuses on urban middle-class, European American populations. Although there has been a recent surge in psychological research that focuses on cultural variation (Cohen & Kitayam, 2007), little is known about the practices that support this variation. Knowledge about these practices is critical for...
Keyword:: Gesture, Discourse, Perspective Taking, Culture, Construal, and Folkbiology
Subject:: Psychology
Creator:: Sara Jill Unsworth
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/19/2018
Date Modified:: 09/19/2018
Date Created:: 2008-08-25
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation addresses the process-pathways running between immigrant adolescents' life experiences and their engagement in school by providing an ecocultural perspective on self-regulation. While the role of social context, such as stress and resources, has been identified as critical in its influence on different dimensions of adolescent development, research on...
Keyword:: Development, Problem Solving, Adolescence, Stress, Self-Regulation, and Culture
Subject:: Education and Social Policy - Learning Sciences
Creator:: Helen Julia Eksner
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 06/25/2018
Date Modified:: 06/25/2018
Date Created:: 2007-05-15
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: In the last twenty years, memory entrepreneurs have proliferated memories of Communism from Central and Eastern Europe transnationally across Europe, but for some an invisible Iron Curtain persists. How has the European memory field changed in the last two decades, and more broadly, what determines which mnemonic actors are successful...
Keyword:: Law, Central and Eastern Europe, European Union, Culture, and Public Policy
Subject:: Sociology
Creator:: Iga Kozlowska
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 04/26/2018
Date Modified:: 01/29/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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