Rules, norms and standards in corporate and sectoral IPR practices when profiting from technological innovations and innovations in creative expressions

Date : March 24 th 2006

Location: London 's Bloomsbury (Venue: Room B01, Clore Management Centre, Torrington Square, Birkbeck College, University of London, Bloomsbury, London)

This is an open invitation for presentations regarding theoretical, empirical and/or methodological relevant issues, puzzles, and evidence related to a focused area within workshop two.

Please submit your name(s), institution, and presentation/paper proposal (about one page) no later than February 1 st 2006.

Submit to: Birgitte Andersen : b.andersen@bbk.ac.uk

Presentations of all research areas related to workshop two is welcome.

For pure inspiration, a few areas are suggested below:

IPR value is manifold

• What are the financial and non-financial value companies and sectors seek from IPRs?
• Reflecting on the value companies seek from their IPRs; what are the implications for IPRs as economic and strategic indicators?
• Extraction of value from IPRs by companies and sectors
• How is value companies seek from IPRs realized and distributed; and what are the implications for collaboration, competition, IPR markets, licensing practices and industrial structure, in this context?
• What are the market- and non-market based IPR governance structures in action when realizing different type of IPR value (market based IPR exchange include e.g. buying and selling IPRs, and non-market based include e.g. cross-licensing and patent-pooling.); and what are the objectives of these IPR governance structures?

The role of the legal profession

• What are the norms and standards enforced by the legal profession, and its influence on the performance of IPR governance structures and the IPR system

Appropriate IPR strategic management at the corporate and sectoral level.

• What is appropriate IPR strategic management at the corporate and sectoral level?

IPR stakeholders, value generation and inequality

• Who are the IPR stakeholders and what is the quality of their relationships when it comes to extracting and distributing the wealth generated from IPRs?
• Under which collaborate and competitive conditions at the corporate or sectoral level is IPR system able to generate potential for financial and non-financial value for all parties involved?; and under what collaborate and competitive conditions does the IPR generate inequality?
• Why is prevailing IPR theory not useful in explaining why the IPR system generates different performance results and varying potential for growth across firms, sectors and nations participating in IPR systems?

Activity timetable:

Dates for your diary:

If you propose to present, please submit your name(s), institution, and presentation/paper proposal (about one page) no later than February 1 st 2006 . Indicate which workshop (1 or 2) it is meant for.

• Submit to: Birgitte Andersen : b.andersen@bbk.ac.uk

If your abstract is selected for presentation, please submit your paper March 13 th 2006 .

Everyone, please confirm your participation as soon as possible (essential for hotel booking). Indicate which workshop (1 or 2 or both) you plan to participate in. DIME funding will be allocated around February 10 th (when the presentations are selected).

What will be funded?; and Who will be funded? by DIME?

• DIME funds food and drinks provided at the workshop venue, and provided at the workshop dinners, for all presenters and all participants .
• DIME funds travel and hotel for all individual presenters . If groups present, we will negotiate how many participants per group DIME will fund in due course.
• DIME will fund partly or fully all the travel and hotel expenses for some of the participant s which do not present. (depending on number confirmed in due course).