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To Be Financed or Not… - The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncertainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of potential portfolio companies.
Mueller, Elisabeth, Harhoff, Dietmar, Haeussler, Carolin   +2 more
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Prevalence and associated determinants of malaria parasites among Kenyan children

Tropical Medicine and Health, 2017
Background Approximately 80% of deaths attributed to malaria worldwide occurred mainly in Africa in 2015. Kenya is one of the major malaria endemic countries, making malaria the leading public health concern in this country.
Marufa Sultana, Nurnabi Sheikh, Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Tania Jahir, Ziaul Islam, Abdur Razzaque Sarker   +5 more
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Financing transformative health systems towards achievement of the health Sustainable Development Goals: a model for projected resource needs in 67 low-income and middle-income countries

The Lancet Global Health, 2017
Background: The ambitious development agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires substantial investments across several sectors, including for SDG 3 (healthy lives and wellbeing).
Karin Stenberg, MSc, Odd Hanssen, MSc, Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer, MSc, Melanie Bertram, PhD, Callum Brindley, BEcom, Andreia Meshreky, MSc, James E Rosen, MA, John Stover, MA, Paul Verboom, MBA, Rachel Sanders, MPP, Agnès Soucat, PhD   +10 more
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A note on hospital financing: local financing vs. central financing

CoRR, 2022
This note tries to study how hospital behaviors, with reference to interhospital collaboration or competition, could be affected by hospital financing systems. For that this note simulates two scenarios which start with the following baseline scenario: a State, with a set of hospitals, each with all types of wards at a basic level.
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Productivity change of national health systems in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean region: application of DEA-based Malmquist productivity index

Global Health Research and Policy, 2018
Background The pursuit of efficiency and productivity is one of the goals of health systems. In the era of Sustainable Development Goals and particularly the move towards universal health coverage, it is imperative to curb wastage of resources to ensure ...
Maysoun Dimachkie Masri, Eyob Zere Asbu
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Measuring finance for the economy and finance for finance [PDF]

, 2019
This study analyses the composition of the yearly changes that occurred in sectorial balance sheets in 14 founder countries of the European Union from 1995 to 2015. It proposes a methodology, based on a stock-flow consistent accounting framework, to analyse how superfluous financial flows grow and how they are allocated between sectors with different ...
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Equity in health care financing: The case of Malaysia [PDF]

, 2008
Background: Equitable financing is a key objective of health care systems. Its importance is evidenced in policy documents, policy statements, the work of health economists and policy analysts.
Sach, TH, Whynes David K, Whynes, David K., Yu, Chai Ping, Yu Chai, Sach, Tracey H., Sach, Tracey H, Whynes, DK, David K Whynes, Tracey H Sach, Sach Tracey H, Yu, CP, Chai Ping Yu, Whynes, David K   +13 more
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Carcinomas and Carcinoid Tumors of the Lungs and Bronchi in Children and Adolescents: The EXPeRT Recommendations

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Primary lung carcinomas and bronchial carcinoid tumors (BC) are very rare malignancies in childhood. While typical BC and mucoepidermoid carcinomas are mostly low‐grade, localized tumors with a more favorable prognosis than in adults, necessitating avoidance of overtreatment, adenocarcinomas of the lung are often diagnosed at advanced disease ...
Michael Abele, Calogero Virgone, Michaela Kuhlen, Sabine Irtan, Yves Reguerre, Malgorzata Krawczyk, Ewa Bien, Tal Ben‐Ami, Maja Cesen, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Andrea Ferrari, Gianni Bisogno, Dominik T. Schneider, Abbas Agaimy, Constantin Lapa, Hubert Ducou le Pointe, Rainer Claus, Catherine Daniel, Ines B. Brecht, Daniel Orbach   +19 more
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European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline and EXPeRT Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms in Children and Adolescents

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen, Calogero Virgone, Antje Redlich, Michael Abele, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Tal Ben‐Ami, Ewa Bien, Gianni Bisogno, Maja Mazic Cesen, Andrea Ferrari, Malgorzata A. Krawczyk, Yves Reguerre, Dominik T. Schneider, Ines B. Brecht, Charlotte Rigaud, Bilgehan Yalcin, Rainer Claus, Christian Vokuhl, Constantin Lapa, Jörg Fuchs, Segolene Hescot, Thomas Walter, Julien Hadoux, Daniel Orbach   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

A multi-criteria decision-making model for evaluating priorities for foreign direct investment

Croatian Operational Research Review, 2015
The objective of this study is to evaluate the relative priority of nine developed countries as a home country for foreign direct investment (FDI) from the vantage point of the United States during three time periods: pre-crisis (2004-2006), crisis (2007-
Korhan K. Gokmenoglu, Shahram Alaghemand
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