International IPR conference in London

Intellectual Property Rights for Business and Society

September 14-15 2006

Hosted by DIME Network of Excellence in collaboration with Global Network of IPR Reserach

• Conference call: Papers are welcome on: ~ Theoretical, empirical and methodological approaches from all disciplines; ~ All types of IPRs (patents, copyrights, trademarks); ~ All IPR issues related to the performance of IPR systems, IPR management and policy, and the institutional IPR environment (for details: Download PDF)

• Registration: Download [in Word file] registration form. Since DIME ensures a significant EU sponsorship for the event, the conference is free (£ 0) for the first 50 'registered' DIME members. It is advisable for EVERYONE to register early to ensure you have a place.

• PROGRAMME is now live!!! (download programme version 14.09.2006)

• Guidelines for speakers: 15 min presentation per paper. If you 'chair' a session, make sure that this rule is enforced, to ensure that all speakers get a chance to present their paper.
• Conferene Venue: The conference takes place in the Clore Management Centre (Department of Management), Torrrington Square, Birkbeck College, University of London . This is in the area of London known as Bloomsbury . It is close to Russell Squareand the British Museum . The closest Underground stations to the venue are: Russell Square, Goodge Street, Tottenham Court Road, Euston Square, Euston, and Warren Street. See how to find us / See map

• Hotel booking information: Dowload PDF of list of hotels close to the conference venue.

• Co-organizers: ~ Dr Birgitte Andersen and Professor Daniele Archibugi

• Conference contact: ~ Miss Nath at IPRevent@bbk.ac.uk

• Conference advisory board: ~ Professor Richard Nelson (Columbia University, NY ); ~ Prof Ed Steinmueller (Science and Technology Policy Research Unit, SPRU); ~ Prof Paul David (Stanford University and Oxford University ); ~ Assoc Prof Lee Davis (Copenhagen Business School ); ~ Dr Uma Suthersanen (Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, University of London ); ~ Dr Zeljka Kozul-Wright (Policy Analysis and Research Cluster, Special Programme for Least Developed Countries, UNCTAD, United Nations); ~ Professor FM Scherer (Harvard University).

Venue: Bloomsbury, central London .

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Session 1 / Plenary / Expanding the IPR Domain in the New Economy

• Scherer, FM: The Political Economy of Patent Policy Reform in the United States (PDF)
• Steinmueller, Ed: Information Society: Consequences of Expanding the Intellectual property domain (PDF) (presentation)
• David, Paul: Using IPR to Expand the Research Common for Science. (PDF) (presentation)
• Kozul-Wright, Zeljka: Creative destruction in the Music Industry and the Copyright (PDF) (presentation)

Session 2 / Plenary / IPRs and Corporate Dominance in an Era of Globalization

• Coriat, Benjamin and Orsi, Fabienne: The new role and status of IPRs in Contemporary Capitalism (PDF)
• Macmillan, Fiona: Cultural Diversity in an Era of Corporate Dominance: A Clash of Rights (PDF)
• Lopes, Teresa da Silva: Global Brands and Corporate Dominance in Consumer Goods (PDF)
• Jessop, Bob: The new political economy of IPR regulation (PDF) & (PDF) (presentation)
• Andersen, Birgitte & Konzelmann, Sue: In Search of a useful theory of IPRs. (Presentation based upon two papers: PDF and PDF) (presentation)

Session 3.1 / Parallel / IPR Protection in High-Tech Industries Including Software, Business Methods and Information Products

• Jullien, Nicholas and Zimmermann, Jean-Benoit: Open Source Software: Lessons for Intellectual Property Rights Management in a knowledge-based economy (PDF)
• Liotard, Isabelle: Consequences of software and business methods patents on the Internet and the standard-setting organisations (PDF) (presentation)
  
• Guy, Fredrick: Strategic Bundling: information products market power, and the future of globalization. (PDF)
• Rayna, Thierry: IPR Protection in the High-Tech Industries: A Model of Piracy (PDF) (presentation)

Session 3.2: / Parallel / Coping with Public Demand for IP Access

• Hansen, Gard Hopsdal and Moeller, Henrik Kloppenborg: Looking at Vuitton: Negotiating value and price of counterfeit merchandise (PDF)
• Bozina, Marta; Dumancic, Kojenska; and Knezevic, Blazenka: The Impact of Internet on IPR – A case study of Music Industry in Croatia (PDF)
• Kim, Yikyung and Lee, Soo Hee: Bridging the digital divide through adoptoin to open-source software and standards in developing nations: A study of the African context.
• Feledziak, Barbara and Lyubareva, Inna: The Role of Free Licences for Cooperation Development and Learning within the Commons-Based Peer Production. The Cases of CC and GNU GPL (PDF) (presentation)

Session 3.3: / Parallel/ The Evolution of Patenting Activities and Service Marks

• Mangani, Andrea: An Economic Analysis of the Rise of Service Marks (PDF) (presentation)
• Gauch, Stephan and Schmoch, Ulrich: Service Marks as Indicators for Knowledge-based Services (PDF) (presentation)
• Godinho, Manuel Mira and Rebelo, Guilherme: Patenting Propensity across sectors : Analysis of its variance in the advanced economies (PDF)
• Kosmopoulou, Elena: Determinants of Technological Change: A Patent Data Analysis’ (PDF)

Session 3.4: / Parallel/ Trademark Rights, Authors Rights and Corporate Dominance

• Kretschmer, Martin: Empirical Evidence on Copyright Earnings (PDF)
• Simon, Ilanah: Trade Mark Dilution and the Public Interest (presentation)
• Christensen, Jesper Lindgaard: The role of IPR in the venture capital process. (PDF) (presentation)
• Dempster, Anna: Signalling Value of IPR Announcements. (presentation)

Session 4 / Plenary / Suitable Criteria for IPR Protection in New Economy Sectors

• Kahn, Jonathon D.: Patenting Race in a Genomic Age (PDF)
• Granstrand, Ove: Proper property properties of knowledge (PDF)
• Dutfield, Graham and Suthersanen, Uma: Creators in biotechnology and culture: Geniuses, or industrial stakeholders? (presentation)
• Blind, Knut: Intellectual Property in Software Development: Trends, Strategies and Problems (PDF) (presentation)
• Gibson, Johanna: The Discovery of Invention: Gene Patents and the Question of Patentability (PDF) (presentation)

Session 5 / Plenary / The Trade Related Aspects of IPR Regulation in Sectoral, National and Global Contexts

• Greenhalgh, Christine and Rogers, Mark: Trade Marks and Performance in Firms: Evidence of Schumpeterian Competition through Innovation (PDF) (presentation)
• Davis, Lee: How do trademarks affect firm’s incentives to innovate (PDF) (presentation)
• Crespi, Gustavo; Geuna, Aldo and Verspagen, Bart: University IPRs and Knowledge transfer. Is the IPR ownership model more efficient? (PDF) (presentation)
• Yu, Peter: The International Enclosure Movement (Link)
• Szymanski, Stefan and Valletti, Tommaso: Parallel trade, price discrimination, investment and price caps (PDF)

Session 6.1 / Parallel / IPR, Health Policies and Moral Rights

• Papaioannou, Theo: Human Gene Patents and the Question of Liberal Morality (PDF) (presentation)
• Orsi, Fabienne; d’Almeida , C.; Hasenclever, L and Coriat, Benjamin: Trips-Post 2005 in Southern Countries : The Sustainability of Public Health Policies at Stake (PDF)
• Bureth, Antoine, and Penin, Julien: Patents as structuring elements of modular inventions: The Case of DNA vaccines (PDF)
• Kern, Sander and van Reekum, Rik: The management of patents in Dutch biopharmaceutical SME: a framework for assessing patent management maturity (PDF)

Session 6.2 / Parallel / IPRs and Inventors’ Choices

• Crespi, Gustavo Geuna, Aldo; and Nesta, Lionel J.J.: Labour Mobility of Academic Inventors. Career decision and knowledge transfer (PDF) (presentation)
• Mariani, Myriam and Romanelli, Marzia: “Stacking” or “Picking” patents? The Inventors Choice between Quantity and Quality (PDF)
• Janne Odile and Frenz Marion: Do firms patent to protect or transfer knowledge in support of their innovations? An analysis of the forth UK Community Innovation Survey (PDF) (presentation)
• Zuniga, Pluvia and Bascavusoglu, Elif: Imitation, Patent Protection and Entry Mode (PDF) (presentation)

Session 6.3 / Parallel / Internationalisation of Intellectual Property Rights, TRIPS and Public Policy

• Guennif, Samira: One size fits all, but which one ? From TRIPS to ‘ TRIPS PLUS’ agreements. IPR regime and access to medicines in developing countries. (PDF)
• Rocha-Lackiz, Alma: Biopiracy: Is the patent system a solution? (PDF)
• Saxena, K.K and Sharma, Ruchi: Internationalisation of Intellectual Property Rights: Implications for the Developing Countries.
• Zhang, Nan: A Long Long way to Win-win? IPRs Issues in the International Technology Transfer from US to P.R. China (PDF) (presentation)

Session 7.1 / Parallel / Dealing with Public versus Private Interests in the Administration of IPRs

• Ouma, Marisella: Public and Private Institutions in the Administration of IPRs in Kenya (PDF)
• Muraguri, Lois: Private rights and Public goods: conflicts in agriculture R&D (PDF)
• Dequiedt, Vianney; Meniere Y; and Trommetter, Michel: Collective Management of Intellectual Property Rights: Not only a solution to the tragedy of anti-commons (PDF) (presentation)
• Malik, Tarik The dynamics of university-Industry enterprising as an enabler or deterrent to technological innovation dissemination in biotechnology industry (PDF) (presentation)

Session 7.2 / Parallel / The Role of IPRs in Industrial and Economic Development Processes of Nations

• von Tunzelmann, Nick and Long, Vicky: Recent Asian growth dynamics and the role of IPRs
• Shadlen, Ken: Different Economics, Different Politics: The Political Economy of Intellectual Property in Late Development
• Salami, Reza: The Role of IPRs in Technological Development, Some Suggestions and Policy Implications from Iran’s experience for other Developing Countries (PDF)
• Christine MacLeodNuvolari, Alessandro: Inventive Activities, Patents and Early Industrialization. A synthesis of Research Issues (PDF) (presentation)

Session 7.3 / Parallel / IPRs and Incentives to Invent, Innovate and Entrepreneurship

• Oyewale, Ayobami Adesina: Nigeria’s Research System and the Culture of Patenting (PDF) (presentation)
• Angelini, Barbara and Donadio Saverio, Francesco: The IPR Strategies of the Italian Research Council and its researchers’ motivations to file patents: an empirical study (PDF) (presentation)
• Dequuiedt, Vianney and Versaevel, Bruno: Patent pools and the Dynamic Incentive to R&D (PDF)

• Williams, Christopher and Lee, Soo Hee: Political Heterarchy and Dispersed Entrepreneurship in the MNC

Session 7.4 / Parallel / Value Creation from IPRs as a ‘Social’ Process

• Iversen, Eric, J; Bekkers, Rudi; and Blind, Knut: Emerging coordination mechanisms for multi-party IPR holders: linking research with standardization. (PDF) (presentation)
• Giuri, Paola and Mariani, Myriam: Knowledge Interactions in patent development: the role of geographical vs. organizational proximity (PDF)
• McDonald, Elaine: Towards A Socialized Model of IP Strategy (PDF) (presentation)
• Striukova, Ludmilla: Value Creation from Patents: the role of social capital (PDF) (presentation)

Session 8 / Plenary Round table

• May, Christopher and Sell, Susan: Forgetting History is Not an Option! Intellectual Property, Public Policy and Economic Development in Context (PDF)
• Panellists : Birgitte Andersen / Benjamin Coriat / Ove Granstrand / Fiona Macmillan / Chris May / Zeljka Kozul-Wright / FM Scherer