城市最低生活保障兼有消费改善与劳动供给激励效应吗?

最低生活保障制度是我国社会保障体系中兜底性、基础性的制度安排,是保障民生、促进分配公平、维护经济安全和社会稳定的重要机制。本文通过对城市低保制度消费改善与劳动供给效应的综合评估发现,我国城市低保从整体上改善了受助家庭的消费状况,影响了受助家庭的消费结构,起到了提升经济福利的效果,但是对受助家庭的劳动供给激励效应还比较小。女性户主、劳动力技能低、抚养负担重的家庭,通过低保救助获得消费改善的同时,会出现减少劳动供给的倾向;男性户主、劳动力技能强、抚养负担轻的家庭,通过低保救助获得消费改善的同时,会出现增加劳动供给的倾向。下一阶段,建立健全分层分类的社会救助体系是我国实现高质量社会救助的关键所在。     

专利制度在高校科技成果转化中的运行机理及改革路径

一直以来，高校科技成果转化问题都是社会热点且亟待解决。权属分配是政府引导转化工作的突破点，而权属分配又与专利制度紧密相关。“拜杜法案”以美国专利法修正案形式发挥着促进成果转化的作用，也同样暗示了专利制度对成果转化的重要性和特殊性。现阶段，确有必要探讨成果转化激励失效与专利制度的关联性，分析专利制度在高校科技成果转化中的运行机理及决定性作用，并结合我国部分地区改革实践经验与相关法学理论观点，论证高校职务科技成果赋权改革的合理性。同时，对赋权改革如何疏通高校科技成果转化堵点进行分析，结合《赋予科研人员职务科技成果所有权或长期使用权试点实施方案》，展望专利制度变革及相关规则体系建设的前景与方向。     

政府绩效审计评价指标体系研究

绩效审计评价指标体系是对绩效评价内容的一般性概括,它制约着绩效审计资料的收集方法,影响着绩效审计技术的运用。我国政府绩效审计评价体系尚处于初步发展阶段,其存在着评价指标过于简单、体系缺乏应变性、考核关系不合理、可操作性差等问题。应遵循客观性、可比性、完整性、动态性等原则,借鉴现有相关理论结构,充分考虑定性指标、定量指标以及评价标准的选择等多方面因素,构建适合我国经济发展的科学评价体系,以推动我国公共管理效率的提高。     

Social rights, essential services, and political mobilization in post-apartheid South Africa

This paper discusses movements that organize constituencies in order to allow them access to the consumption of goods and services, while rejecting at the same time their identity as consumers. Instead, they base their claims on people’s identities as citizens of the state and members of communities. Putting forward the notion of social rights, the paper examines how movements operating among marginalized communities in the post-colonial world work to define rights and entitlements, and use these to mobilize for enhancing the delivery of social services. In particular, the focus is on rights to land and to public utilities (water and electricity) in post-apartheid South Africa. Examining these in the context of political transition, the paper looks at different legal and political strategies, and the ways in which they draw on and shape discourses of power, rights, and social consumption. It concludes that meaningful social change and effective service delivery require a combined strategy, working with the courts and legal professionals, together with popular constituencies, the media, civil society organizations, academics, and state officials.     

标准成本管理在餐饮企业管理中的应用

目前我国餐饮业的发展正处在激烈的竞争之中,越来越低的利润使企业不得不将成本控制作为战略的重点之一。由于中餐的生产带有较强的主观性和随意性,这就使得标准成本的控制问题显得更为突出。针对餐饮企业的特点进行标准成本管理,分析其实际成本和标准成本的差异化,找出成本差异的原因,从而可使餐饮企业达到降低成本、提高利润水平和竞争力的目的。     

产权分离与产权分割——职务发明国防专利权归属的新思路

权利归属是国防专利制度的核心问题,发明人的核心利益是智力成果收益问题。当前,国防领域职务发明权利归属不清,违背了智力财产私权性的法律原则,造成的结果是发明人失去了产权,国家损失了国防专利制度可能带来的收益,解决问题的关键是跳出"非此即彼"的权利归属思维定势,将国防专利权分为所有权、使用权、收益权和处置权,并在此基础上进行权利分割。国家拥有所有权,发明人拥有使用权和处置权,国家、单位和发明人共同拥有收益权,这既体现了法律的公平正义,又符合经济规律,做到了权、责、利相统一。     

复杂产品协同创新专利管理研究——以客机协同研制为例

复杂产品研制具有周期较长、成本较高、产品设计过程复杂、跨学科交叉及融合等特征,在研制过程中需要企业、高校、科研院所等众多机构协同创新,众多产学研协同创新的复杂性导致了专利管理的复杂性。围绕复杂产品协同创新,以客机产品为例,对复杂产品专利体系构建、专利演化历程及专利管理策略等进行了研究。自顶向下划分复杂产品部件(子系统),自底向上围绕每一部件的核心技术产生系列专利,再与其它所需技术的专利持有人共同组建专利池,构建了客机产品专利体系;将复杂产品协同研制的专利演化历程划分为孕育期、创建期、成长期、成熟期和衰退期等阶段,根据不同阶段创新主体掌握专利技术的程度,提出了相应的专利策略或专利策略组合,研究成果可为我国复杂产品协同创新专利管理提供借鉴。     

创新驱动背景下我国专利主张实体扩张防范策略研究

自2008年“高智发明”案件起，非专利实施体与专利主张实体的概念在我国引起广泛关注。通过厘清非专利实施体与专利主张实体之间的关系，分析专利主张实体发展与正常专利运营模式之间的差异，进而研究其商业模式对于我国创新驱动发展战略带来的挑战与风险。在借鉴与吸收美国、日本等国防范专利主张实体、应对专利权滥用问题实践经验的基础上，针对专利主张实体扩张趋势对我国科技成果转化、专利运营以及专利法规等领域可能带来的影响提出建议与对策。     

Global norm of national treatment for patent uncertainties: A longitudinal comparison between the US and China

Sporadic studies on the global norm of national treatment for patent uncertainties (NTPU) urge for insights of changes as well as for clarification to discrepancy. This global norm has been a concern for policy makers and practitioners for over a century, as a socially and strategically more significant matter than before for multilateral cooperation given the active technology transfer across borders. To fill in the void and extend prior studies, we examine the global compliance of NTPU from the perspective of patent pendency and granting by addressing three relevant questions: (1) Is NTPU upheld within countries? (2) How does NTPU diverge across countries? (3) How does NTPU change, as an outcome, over time? Based on the institutional theory, lagged regression modeling and longitudinal comparison of US and Chinese patenting, our findings reveal that: (1) NTPU is overall upheld because equality in pendency is demonstrated in both countries and in US granting, and foreigners are even favored for Chinese granting. (2) NTPU is comparatively divergent between the countries in pendency and granting due to national variations. (3) Regressive and progressive changes in NTPU are evidenced since both countries provide equal or higher granting, but longer pendency than before. Our findings contribute to theories by providing new insights to the global norm of national treatment and institutional theory from the perspective of patent uncertainties. We make novel empirical contribution to address NTPU changes of the top patent filing countries and methodological contribution to the longitudinal comparative study. The results also provide implications that concern policy makers and practitioners to handle patent uncertainties across borders.     

Are venture capitalist-backed IPOs more innovative? Evidence from an emerging market

This study examines whether venture capital (VC)-backed IPOs are more innovative than otherwise equivalent non-VC-backed IPOs. Using manually collected R&D records from annual reports and patent data from the Chinese State Intellectual Property Office (CSIPO) from 2007 to 2012, we find that VC-backed IPOs have higher R&D expenditures and more patents granted in the three years after IPOs. More specifically, they have more invention, application, and design patents in post-IPO. We use a two-stage instrumental variable, propensity score matching, difference-in-differences approach to mitigate selection biases and find our results to be consistent with our hypothesis. We conclude that VCs can positively influence IPO firms to increase R&D expenditures and innovative output levels in China. In addition, we document that the government ownership adversely affects innovation of VC-backed firms. Policy implications are discussed.