Patent Related Indicators for Assessing Knowledge-Generating Institutions: Towards a Contextualised Approach

This contribution aims at examining the extent to which patent related indicators are relevant for shedding light on the notion of excellence within knowledge-generating institutions. Traditionally, excellence has been looked upon as the ability to create interesting and valuable new scientific concepts, theories and data. From such a perspective, scientific excellence can be assessed through scientometric measures of publication output and impact. The recent interest in the entrepreneurial phenomenon within knowledge-generating institutes justifies efforts to examine the relevancy of broadening the set of indicators used to assess such institutions into the direction of entrepreneurial excellence. In this paper we will examine the relevancy of using patent data in order to delineate such additional, more entrepreneurial oriented, indicators. The arguments and findings presented in this respect will lead us to a plea for the use of these indicators in a contextualized manner.     

Wohnungsvermietung durch GmbH – Liebhaberei

Zur Bewertung eines vom Geschenknehmer mehreren Personen einger?umten Wohnrechts (zwei Geschenkgeber – H?lfteeigentümer – bedingen sich ein lebensl?ngliches Wohnrecht am gesamten Gegenstand der Schenkungen aus).     

Unentgeltliche Überlassung von Mieterinvestitionen an den Vermieter: ausnahmsweise keine Einkünfte aus Vermietung und Verpachtung

Ein Rechtsstreit über eine obligatorisch eingegangene Verpflichtung zur Lastenfreistellung einer mit einem dinglichen Wohnrecht belasteten Liegenschaft f?llt in die Eigenzust?ndigkeit des Bezirksgerichts gem § 49 Abs 2 Z 3 JN.     

Policy Expansion in Local Government Environmental Policy Making

Relatively little is known about when, why, and how some jurisdictions “double down” on policy priorities, rapidly adopting multiple measures tackling the same issue. Rapid policy expansion can emerge in fast‐evolving, uncertain, and contested policy arenas in which pressures for policy making are not satisfied, and even may be strengthened, by initial policy innovation. This article analyzes local government policy making on high‐volume hydraulic fracturing by New York State municipalities from 2008 to 2012. Policy path dependence, peer influence, and policy design appear to play a critical role in determining whether public officials respond to these pressures with policy expansion. Initial policy innovations can open windows for policy participants to secure additional measures that strengthen or enlarge the scope of action. Public officials and stakeholders seeking particular policy outcomes should take a long view of the policy process while simultaneously remaining alert for opportunities afforded by pressurized policy dilemmas.