Years of Poems and Spirits

TAX TREATMENT OF BUSINESS INVESTMENTS IN INTELLECTUAL ASSETS:
Five types of intellectual assets are considered: research and development (R&D), patents, workforce training, software and organisational change.

PRODUCTIVITY IMPACTS OF OFFSHORING AND OUTSOURCING: A REVIEW
be no clear patterns as to how offshore outsourcing affects productivity, positive productivity effects from foreign material sourcing depends on the degree to which firms are already globally engaged, effects generally are small in manufacturing plants while being of a somewhat greater magnitude for firms in the services sector.

AN EMPIRICAL CONTRIBUTION TO KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AND ECONOMIC
GROWTHCountries with a low domestic knowledge base appear to improve their
TFP considerably through the accumulation of knowledge.

STATUS AND OVERVIEW OF OFFICIAL ICT INDICATORS FOR CHINA
China is rapidly expanding its production of various types of ICT goods.
Telephone subscriptions are increasing at a fast rate, with mobile phone subscribers overtaking fixed line subscribers in October 2003.
The geographical distribution of Chinese domain names shows a concentration in the
municipalities of Beijing and Shanghai and the Eastern Coastal region of Guangdong,

PROMOTING IPR POLICY AND ENFORCEMENT IN CHINA

HUMAN RESOURCES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN INDIA AND THE INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY OF HIGHLY SKILLED INDIANS
This paper provides estimates of the stocks and flows of human resources in science and technology (HRST) in India, and their breakdown by education and occupation.

AN EMERGING KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY IN CHINA?
The main objective of this Working Paper is to show a set of indicators on the knowledge-based economy for China, mainly compiled from databases within EAS. This document draws heavily on the Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard,

OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2005

THE KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY

Found a book review on the Economist website: The growth of growth theory

Key facts, agents:
Robert Solow, 1956-57, later a Nobel Laureate, published of two papers on economic growth: the efforts of policymakers to raise the rate of growth per head are ultimately futile.
Only technological advance can speed up economic growth.

Paul Romer, of Stanford University, documented by David Warsh in“Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations:”If technological progress dictates economic growth, what kind of economics governs technological advance?

Conclusion: Unless idea factories can enjoy some measure of monopoly over their designs—by patenting them, copyrighting them, or just keeping them secret—they will not be able to cover the fixed cost of inventing them.

Mr Romer’s theory, by contrast, calls for a more worldly response: educate people, subsidise their research, import ideas from abroad, carefully gauge the protection offered to intellectual property.

—But aren’t those matters too obvious?

Read on the New Yorker a story about the African slaves during American Revolutionary War. I was almost late for an appointment because I didn’t want to drop the magazine.

It is a book review but the author, Jill Lepore, narrated differently. Starting from the story of Harry Washington, “formerly the property of General Washington”, the author recounted the horrible stories of the black slaves in the 1770s. The British enticed them to rebel against the colonialists but then abandoned them after the war.

Some quotes:
“There is not a man of them but would leave us if they believed they could make their escape,” a cousin of Washington’s wrote from Mount Vernon, adding bitterly, “Liberty is sweet.”
–The word coming from a relatively benign slave-owner (I guess) tells how the coercive nature of the slavery. There is no liberty not because by choice but because of no choice.

When the British evacuated, fifteen thousand blacks went with them, though not necessarily to someplace better. … [in a frantic rush to escape America, the slaves] Clinging to the sides of the longboats, they were not allowed on board, but neither would they let go; in the end, their fingers were chopped off.
–It is so strangely true today as how the Mexican are risking their lives trying to coming in …

American allies reported seeing “herds of Negroes” fleeing through Virginia’s swamps of pine and cypress. American slave owners “seizing upon their slaves in the streets of New York, or even dragging them out of their beds.”

Pregnant women had to hurry, too, but not so fast as to bring on labor, lest their newborns miss their chance for a coveted “BB” certificate: “Born Free Behind British Lines.”

As the historian Gary Nash observes in “The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution” (Harvard; $19.95), slavery is so entirely missing from those histories that “it would appear that the British and the Americans fought for seven years as if half a million African Americans had been magically whisked off the continent.”
–The forgotten details of the American Essence/Dream/Soul.