EPIP - Objectives and Partners
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Objectives
The rise of the knowledge economy and the increasing importance of information-based business in the world economy has been accompanied by a growing interest in the role of Intellectual Property Rights, both in securing the returns to investments in these businesses and in guaranteeing the diffusion of new ideas and knowledge. The central concern of this proposal is the various challenges and policy issues that are raised by the evolution of the IP institutions in the context of the new knowledge-based economy, an area of great policy concern for the future of European economic competitiveness and social cohesion. The participants, based in six European teams, propose the organisation of five seminars and a final conference on various IPR issues that will facilitate the creation of a network bringing together economists, lawyers, sociologists, political scientists and policy makers in order to address these issues and discuss their implications at the European level.
The first four seminars will deal with the changing nature of the system, mechanisms to solve the problems posed by the patent thicket, the level of diversity the system should reach with reference to the variety of situations and contexts, and the potential clash between some aggressive patent strategies and the economy of knowledge production and access in certain fields like healthcare and education. The fifth seminar will address more directly the issue of European policy. Based on the discussions of the previous seminars, this last seminar will examine carefully the policy implications for the EU IPR regime.
Then a final conference will be designed as initial event of the future network of excellence in order to create a research programme on the basis of the results of the 5 seminars.
Each event will be interdisciplinary (assembling economists, political scientists, sociologists and lawyers) and will be organised as to ensure strong interactions between academic researchers and policy makers and practitioners.
Partners
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Scientific Responsible | Scientific Team |
| IMRI , Université Paris-Dauphine,
France (co-ordinator) |
CASSIER Maurice CLAVIER Jean-Pierre DALLE Jean-Michel ISABELLE Marc JAFFE Adam RAMANI Shyama SACHWALD Frédérique |
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| MERIT, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands | Pierre MOHNEN | ARUNDEL Anthony COWAN Robin DAVID Paul.A. HAGEDOORN John HARISON Elad KAMPERMAN-SANDERS A |
| INNO-tec, Munich School of Management, Germany | Dietmar HARHOFF | HENKEL Joachim HOISL Katrin SOCHER Carolin SPINDLER Gerald WAGNER Stefan |
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Alfonso GAMBARDELLA | GIARRATANA Marco HALL Bronwyn LUZZI Alessandra MARIANI Myriam |
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Susana BORRAS |
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Xavier VENCE | GOMEZ SEGADE J.-A. SANCHEZ PADRON Miguel |
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