政府购买服务的美国经验及其对中国的借鉴意义——基于对一个公共服务个案的观察

目前中国正在快速推进政府购买公共服务的政策与实践。服务提供模式的转变绝非简单地将公共服务移交专业的社会组织,而是要在能力建设、政府角色转换、潜在风险防范、服务传输质量保障以及政府与社会组织间的关系构建等方面,做出系统性的制度安排。美国早在1960年代就开始通过政府购买方式拓展公共服务的供给渠道,现已发展为公共服务提供的主导模式。论文根据对中国一项政府购买服务个案运行全过程的观察,以美国政府购买服务的理论和实践作为参照,对中国政府购买服务亟需解决的问题、理念构建和制度安排进行了深入探讨。     

Changes in staff confidence and attributions for challenging behaviour after training in positive behavioural support within a forensic medium secure service

Positive behavioural support (PBS) is a non-aversive approach to preventing and managing challenging behaviours. Seventy-nine qualified and unqualified nursing, psychology and occupational therapy staff were trained in using PBS. To measure the effectiveness of the training, confidence in managing challenging behaviour and attributions for causality, control and stability were measured before and after the training. To measure confidence, an adapted version of the Confidence in Coping with Patient Aggression Instrument was used. Attributions were measured using the Challenging Behaviour Attributions Scale and the Causal Dimension Scale II. There was a significant increase in confidence after training. In addition, there were significant changes in attributions relating to causality and stability of challenging behaviour, particularly for qualified staff. The results suggest that confidence and attributions are affected positively by training in PBS within a medium secure forensic mental health setting.     

Winning the infringement war but losing the battle for damages--a case study for trade mark litigants

The Federal Court of Australia has awarded nominal damages onlyto five major American film studios which commenced proceedingsfor, and succeeded in establishing, infringement of their trademarks.     

Who Develops a University Invention? The Impact of Tacit Knowledge and Licensing Policies

In this paper, I propose a theoretical model to illustrate how the inventor know-how affects whether the inventor starts a firm to develop her idea or licenses an invention to an established firm for development. Inventor start-ups are characterized as development organizations that serve a temporary role in the invention–innovation process, developing an invention until they can sell the developed invention to an established firm that owns requisite complementary assets for commercialization. This model is then used to analyze the role and impact of a university technology transfer office (TTO) on this process to understand how TTO’s may both positively and negatively impact the transaction. The model posits a general theory of inventor–entrepreneur behavior in university and corporate research labs based on two factors: the importance of know-how and the distribution of inventors’ personal costs to transfer that know-how.