Organised by OECD and EPO in collaboration with DIME Network of Excellence, and with the support of UIBM, USPTO, JPO, WIPO, the National Science Foundation (United States), Eurostat, and the Venice International University.  read more »

The aim of this paper is to focus on the emerging situation in which open source software is nowadays produced not only by individual developers but in a growing proportion by firms that hire programmers for their own objectives of development in open source or for contributing to open source projects in the context of dedicated communities.  read more »

The available quantitative data on authors’ and artists’ earnings come from three different sources:  read more »

This paper examines the role of patents in relation to the transfer and exchange of knowledge for corporate innovation. Studies on patents have mostly focused on the role of patents as an incentive for the creation of knowledge by offering a way to appropriate returns from innovation investments.  read more »

University is becoming the beam of the new emerging mode of governance of the generation and dissemination of knowledge as it reveals remarkable institutional advantages both to provide a solution to the knowledge trade-off and to reduce agency costs.  read more »

The aim of this paper is to provide a roadmap to recent research on the role of patent systems in the early phases of industrialization. Perhaps surprisingly, no consensus has been reached yet as to whether the emergence of modern patent systems exerted a favourable impact on inventive activities.  read more »

This article investigates the relation between the level of publicness of digital goods – i.e. their degree of non-excludability and non-rivalness – and the pirating behaviour of the consumers.  read more »

The paper examines how different notions of value are drawn into action in exchanges when people evaluate and negotiate ‘fake’ branded commodities at the Xiangyang market in Shanghai.  read more »

According to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) there is a trend of rapid growth of Internet users in EU-candidate countries (Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey), according to ITU reports, the number of Internet users has tripled since the year 2000. Nowadays, Internet is affecting and changing almost every industry in transitional countries.  read more »

It is a problem that mainstream theory, which has informed the belief systems regarding the operation as well as the predicted social and economic effects of IPR systems, cannot explain why the IPR system generates different performance results and varying potential for growth across the firms, sectors and nations participating in the IPR system.  read more »

The EPIP association will hold its 2nd Annual Conference on September 20th and 21st 2007 at Lund University, Sweden, hosted by CIRCLE, Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy.  read more »

Papers and (now) presentations for the London IPR conference, Intellectual Property Rights for Business and Society (sep 14-15, 2006), are now available for download (most of them).

In nowadays knowledge-based society we are facing stunning developments in the
technology sector and what this article will try to focus on is the burgeoning field of
nanotechnology1 and nanofabrication. The former, actually, is known from the birth of
the “new” chemistry2 whereas the latter is concerned with the manufacturing of  read more »