WIPO Seminar Series on the Economics of IP
The WIPO Seminar Series on the Economics of Intellectual Property features economists from around the world, presenting their latest research to a policy-oriented audience. It seeks to stimulate an informed discourse on the effects of IP policies on economic performance. Videos of the seminars and relevant background material are available on this webpage. The views expressed by the seminar speakers are personal and do not necessarily reflect those of WIPO. If you wish to present a paper at WIPO, please contact us.
- Next Event - Intellectual Property Rights, Price and Access to Innovation: Evidence from the TRIPS Agreement (June 2013)
- Full program 2013
Previous Seminars
| Title | Video | Presenter | Date |
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| Patents and Standard Setting |  |
Damien Neven, Professor, International Economics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, and former Chief Competition Economist, DG Competition, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium | March 26, 2013 |
| Trademark Cluttering | |
Georg von Graevenitz, Senior Lecturer, Innovation Management, Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia (United Kingdom) | January 29, 2013 |
| The effects of copyright extensions on the quantity and quality of literary output | |
Petra Moser, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University (United States of America) | December 17, 2012 |
| Patent productivity of Korean inventors: a study of inventor mobility | |
Jinyoung Kim, Professor, Department of Economics, Korea University (Republic of Korea) | October 29, 2012 |
| The Roles of Compulsory Licensing and Price Controls in Ensuring Access to Foreign Patented Goods | |
Kamal Saggi, Vanderbilt University (United States of America) | May 29, 2012 |
| The Effect of the Macro-Economy on Patenting and the Commercialization Process |  |
Professor Elizabeth Webster, University of Melbourne (Australia) | April 2, 2012 |
| Understanding Technology Market for Patents: New Insights from Japanese Licensing Survey | |
Professor Kazuyuki Motohashi, Director, Innovation Policy Research Center School of Engineering, University of Tokyo (Japan) | March 26, 2012 |
| Private Copying and Fair Compensation: An Empirical Study of Copyright Levies in Europe |
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Professor Martin Kretschmer, University of Bournemouth (United Kingdom) | February 15, 2012 |
| Special Seminar: Patents and Technology Transfer |
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Professor Rajah Rasiah, University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur) and Mr. Gabriel Clerc, EPFL (Lausanne) | December 5, 2011 |
| Licensing Negotiations by Standard Setting Organizations | |
Professor Richard Gilbert, University of California at Berkeley (United States of America) | November 8, 2011 |
| Patents and Innovations for Growth in a Converging World Economy: Intellectual Property Strategy and Technology Commercialization | |
Professor Ove Granstrand, Chalmers University (Sweden) | September 5, 2011 |
| The International Trade in Knowledge: Licensing, Technology Services Trade and the Role of Intellectual Property |
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Professor Suma Athreye, Brunel University (United Kingdom) | May 2, 2011 |
| Exploring The Determinants of the Private Value of Patents | |
Professor Alfonso Gambardella, Università Commerciale “Luigi Bocconi”, Milan (Italy) | February 10, 2011 |
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Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Intellectual Property and Litigation |
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Professor Christine Greenhalgh, St Peter's College, Oxford (United Kingdom) | January 13, 2011 |
| Institutional Innovation or Institutional Imitation? The Impacts of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) on India’s Patent Law and Practice | |
Professor Bhaven N. Sampat, Columbia University (United States of America) | December 13, 2010 |
| Patent Rights and Economic Growth: Evidence from Cross-Country Panels of Manufacturing Industries | |
Professor Ivan Png, National University of Singapore (Singapore) | November 30, 2010 |
| Copyright and Transaction Costs | |
Professor Hal Varian, University of Berkeley (United States of America) | September 14, 2010 |
| Financial Patenting, Innovation, and Patent Litigation | |
Professor Josh Lerner, Harvard Business School (United States of America) | June 28, 2010 |
| The Quality Factor in Patent Systems | |
Professor Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management and Senior Fellow, Brussels (Belgium) | June 16, 2010 |
| Launch of the WIPO Seminar Series on The Economics of IP (WIPO Media Alert MA/2010/53) |
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March 26, 2010 |
