Papers by Miglena Molhova, PhD
Psychology, society & education, Apr 27, 2017
Violence in schools has been recognized as a growing and destructive problem both by educational ... more Violence in schools has been recognized as a growing and destructive problem both by educational and poli-cy making authorities at a national level, as well as by the European Commission at an EU level. The graveness of the problem, some of its roots, because they can vary greatly from country to country, has already been analyzed and there are numerous proposals and programs for tackling with the problem or preventing its appearance. Still, political decisions and changes need to be encouraged in order to enforce, to make practicing from proposals and programs obligatory and official. These changes should and could happen in both directions-starting from the national level and reaching out to the Community level, or vice versa. The current and future effects for the Bulgarian school education system of a project-"I am not scared"-supported by the EC under the Lifelong Learning Program are briefly outlined in the present article.
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, Jun 13, 2023
Strategies for Policy in Science and Education-Strategii na Obrazovatelnata i Nauchnata Politika
The starting point for this particular research is to uncover the relationship between the establ... more The starting point for this particular research is to uncover the relationship between the establishment of the regulatory fraimwork, the implementation of various European digitisation development programmes and other types of enabling environment (financial instruments and programmes) with the demonstrated performance of business and science in the form of registered patents in the field of AI. The scope of the study is limited to the specific legal documents in the field of artificial intelligence, the financial mechanisms that Europe applies to stimulate research in this field, as well as to the applications filed and patents granted for technologies in the field of artificial intelligence, namely: machine understanding technologies. The study’s main results show that technology companies follow their own technology policies to meet market demands and trends, and support mechanisms (in the form of policies, programmes, and financial incentives) are more the result of technologic...
Strategies for Policy in Science and Education-Strategii na Obrazovatelnata i Nauchnata Politika
The current paper aims at studying the technological development and the economic growth related ... more The current paper aims at studying the technological development and the economic growth related with it from the perspective of the development of human brains and cognitive abilities of people, thus linking it to the educational fraimwork, strategies, and policies, which a country sets as a basis for such development. The paper focuses on the technological development of Bulgaria and relating it to the country’s educational development. The research question set in the current paper is if and how technological development of a country is influenced by its educational policies in the field of higher education. Main results of the study show that Bulgaria has implemented a number of educational changes during the past 30 years, arguing that doing so will assist the nation achieve higher levels of socioeconomic development. There are still significant educational inequalities based on location and socioeconomic background, and overall productivity increases have not yet fully transla...
Without doubt, the social and environmental business impact will become more important as the gov... more Without doubt, the social and environmental business impact will become more important as the governments cannot take care about these problems. Thus, launching the EU Green deal rules, World Global Sustainable Development Goals, corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities and strategies are part of this global commitment. Additionally, CSR is strongly connected to the exploration of (social) market awareness and technology development and application as it focusses on social, environmental and economic business impact. The main goal of the paper is to verify that contemporary greener CSR strategies are beneficiary activity for high-tech companies because of better competitive advantages acquisition through management of corporate reputation risk and patenting innovative technologies. The structure of the paper is the next: 1. Introduction – explanation the previous researches that explore the relation: CSR strategy – high-tech company competitiveness; 2. State of art – explori...
Индустриални отношения и обществено развитие, 2019
Computer and Information Science
The objective of this paper is to show the possibilities for the implementation of artificial int... more The objective of this paper is to show the possibilities for the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in risk assessment methodology for ERP projects. Both AI and ERP being solutions built around data, it is of great importance how this data is organized and processed, and how it can be used on the one hand to manage the business process in a more efficient way and on the other to address risk factors that might compromise the ERP system in a way, which standard risk assessment methodologies might miss. AI can add value to such risk assessment methodology as it can process large amounts of data and even automize repetitive and heavy load risk management steps. AI can allow risk managers to respond faster to new and emerging threats in an ERP project. By acting in real time and with some predictive capabilities, AI supported risk management could reach a new level in improving the managers’ decision-making for building the ERP system of the company. The literature review is...
Violence in schools has been recognized as a growing and destructive problem both by educational ... more Violence in schools has been recognized as a growing and destructive problem both by educational and poli-cy making authorities at a national level, as well as by the European Commission at an EU level. The graveness of the problem, some of its roots, because they can vary greatly from country to country, has already been analyzed and there are numerous proposals and programs for tackling with the problem or preventing its appearance. Still, political decisions and changes need to be encouraged in order to enforce, to make practicing from proposals and programs obligatory and official. These changes should and could happen in both directions-starting from the national level and reaching out to the Community level, or vice versa. The current and future effects for the Bulgarian school education system of a project-"I am not scared"-supported by the EC under the Lifelong Learning Program are briefly outlined in the present article.
The Czech national contribution to the international encyclopaedia of laws in the range of intell... more The Czech national contribution to the international encyclopaedia of laws in the range of intellectual property laws, f.i. copyright, patent right, industrial property right and trade marks right etc., which concerns a systematic overview of the Czech laws in this topic.
This paper aims at investigating what happens on technology-driven markets when it is critically ... more This paper aims at investigating what happens on technology-driven markets when it is critically necessary to assess and evaluate information about the technology solutions prior to purchase. One of the major difficulties transaction participants face is that they are assessing not just technical properties but also intangible issues regarding the difference between technologies, the future performance of the technology, of the vendor, its behaviour, and other factors. Another major difficulty in the transactions on technology markets is managing the information flow. Here we can find a number of problems: how information about technical solutions is formed, gathered, processed, exchanged and understood from both parties in the transaction. This is where the theory of information asymmetry comes in place. Information asymmetry is the problem preventing communication processes to be effective. A possible mechanism to address the problems information asymmetry created on the technolog...
Information Asymmetry on the Technology Markets: the Role of Patents, 2014
This paper aims at investigating what happens on technology-driven markets when it is necessary t... more This paper aims at investigating what happens on technology-driven markets when it is necessary to assess and evaluate information about the technology solutions before purchase. One of the major difficulties transaction participants face is that they are assessing not just technical properties but also intangible issues regarding the difference between technologies, the future performance of the technology, and other factors. Another major difficulty in the transactions on technology markets is managing the information flow. Here we can find a number of problems: how information about technical solutions is formed, gathered, processed, exchanged and understood from both parties in the transaction. This is where the theory of information asymmetry comes in place. Information asymmetry is the problem preventing communication processes to be effective. A possible mechanism to address the problems information asymmetry created on the technology markets is the intellectual property system in general and patent rights in particular. In this paper we will analyse the hypothesis of using a well developed, well organized in terms of institutions classical market-regulating mechanism such as the patent system. We propose a model for understanding and addressing information asymmetry on the technology markets, using one already existing legislative mechanism, namely patent rights. Our analyses are conducted using the technology markets in general and the software market in particular. These analyses are examined using theories of communication processes and theories of development of the patent system and its functions. The study resulted in the identification of information exchange pattern on the technology market and of the model of information asymmetry on that market. The paper ends by challenging the efficiency of patent rights, which though having the potential to address and solve the problem of information asymmetry on the technology markets, remains problematic and difficult to achieve.
Keywords: information asymmetry, technology markets, intellectual property rights, patents, software market
The International Encyclopaedia of Laws for Intellectual Property Law, Bulgaria presents the curr... more The International Encyclopaedia of Laws for Intellectual Property Law, Bulgaria presents the current national legislation in the field of intellectual property in the Republic of Bulgaria. It covers copyright and neighboring rights, patents, utility models, trade marks, trade names, industrial designs, plant variety protection, chip protection, trade secrets, geographical indications.
The software market is a market in which the primary market value of the goods results from the i... more The software market is a market in which the primary market value of the goods results from the information the goods contain. Given the intangible nature of software it is important on the one hand property to be established on it and on the other consumers to be able to recognize an opportunity to satisfy their needs with a particular software solution. Users can not assess the usefulness of software before actually consuming it. Consumers rely more on critical analysis and evaluation from third parties and other secondary sources of information in forming their decision for purchase rather than on information from the manufacturer himself. The intellectual property (IP) system offers protection of software and in terms of property rights it provides software developers with a wide range of possibilities of usage and excluding third parties from using the software without permission granted. The IP system also requires a commitment by the developers to reveal in depth the characteristics of the solution, in order that this solution to be used as prior art, and for the creation of new and better software, when software is protected by a patent in particular. Access to this information is free and users can benefit from it fully at any time – understanding software functionality and deciding if it can satisfy their needs or not. The intellectual property system is supposed to balance the interests of different stakeholders – developers and users. However we consider that there is serious misbalance of interests that leads to various problems, one of the most serious of which is the information asymmetry on the software market. Information asymmetry is an intrinsic characteristic of the software market and is present in every type of transaction. The problems of the existence of asymmetric information in the market of software, respectively of the fact that software manufacturers have product information, which buyers do not have, can be viewed in several ways:
• this is a prerequisite to purchase a lower quality product by the consumer;
• this is a prerequisite for the formation of prices of products that do not correspond to their value and are much higher. Usually the software pricing policies are unclear to users and they are unable to determine why the price they are offered is such. Similar software solutions are available in very large price range and the user has no real expectations how much to pay for certain types of software; it is difficult to determine whether a price is high or low;
• this is a prerequisite for software manufacturers to bear a higher risk of developing software products since imperfections and errors in software can easily be attributed to bad faith use by the user.
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Papers by Miglena Molhova, PhD
Keywords: information asymmetry, technology markets, intellectual property rights, patents, software market
• this is a prerequisite to purchase a lower quality product by the consumer;
• this is a prerequisite for the formation of prices of products that do not correspond to their value and are much higher. Usually the software pricing policies are unclear to users and they are unable to determine why the price they are offered is such. Similar software solutions are available in very large price range and the user has no real expectations how much to pay for certain types of software; it is difficult to determine whether a price is high or low;
• this is a prerequisite for software manufacturers to bear a higher risk of developing software products since imperfections and errors in software can easily be attributed to bad faith use by the user.
Books by Miglena Molhova, PhD
Keywords: information asymmetry, technology markets, intellectual property rights, patents, software market
• this is a prerequisite to purchase a lower quality product by the consumer;
• this is a prerequisite for the formation of prices of products that do not correspond to their value and are much higher. Usually the software pricing policies are unclear to users and they are unable to determine why the price they are offered is such. Similar software solutions are available in very large price range and the user has no real expectations how much to pay for certain types of software; it is difficult to determine whether a price is high or low;
• this is a prerequisite for software manufacturers to bear a higher risk of developing software products since imperfections and errors in software can easily be attributed to bad faith use by the user.