16TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
OF THE EPIP ASSOCIATION
IP and the future of innovation
MaDRID, Spain
SEPTEMBER 8-10, 2021
The Institute of Public Goods and Policies (CSIC-IPP) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) hosted the 16th Annual Conference of the EPIP association at CSIC Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (CCHS-CSIC) in Madrid, Spain, September 8-10, 2021, in Madrid, Spain. Scholars and practitioners explored the economic, managerial, legal and political aspects of intellectual property at a hybrid event gathering around 300 attendees, in which speakers and participants interacted both from the Madrid conference venues, and online.
LEAD TOPIC
• IP AND THE FUTURE OF INNOVATION
FURTHER TOPICS
Covid19: lessons for the future of IP • Trademarks and innovation • Creativity and authorship • Income distribution and IP • IP and new metrics • Competition and IP • IP and environmental sustainability • Artificial intelligence and IP • Science-industry links and IP
PLENARY SESSIONS AND KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
• WELCOME SPEECHES
→ STEFAN BECHTOLD, Professor of Intellectual Property, ETH-Zurich, EPIP President.
→ ANA CASTRO, Deputy Vice-president for Knowledge Transfer, VATC, Spanish National Research Council, CSIC.
→ JOSÉ ANTONIO GIL CELEDONIO, Director, Spanish Patent and Trademark Office, OEPM.
→ CHRISTIAN ARCHAMBEAU, Executive Director, European Union Intellectual Property Office, EUIPO
Onsite chair: CATALINA MARTINEZ, Tenured Scientist, CSIC Institute of Public Goods and Policies, EPIP President Elect.
• KEYNOTE SPEECH – STEFANIE STANTCHEVA “TAX POLICY AND INNOVATION”
→ STEFANIE STANTCHEVA, Professor of Economics, Harvard University.
Onsite chair: VALERIO STERZI, Associate Professor, GREThA, CNRS-University of Bordeaux.
Online chair: LAURIE CIARAMELLA, Assistant Professor, Télecom ParisTech & Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition.
• ROUNDTABLE “TRANSATLANTIC CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE IN COPYRIGHT LAW & POLICY”
→ PAMELA SAMUELSON, Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley.
→ BERNT HUGENHOLTZ, Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam.
Moderated by RAQUEL XALABARDER, Chair of Intellectual Property, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
Online chair: JOOST POORT, Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam.
• ROUNDTABLE “COVID19 LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE OF IP”
→ ANITA M. McGAHAN, University Professor and George E. Connell Chair in Organizations and Society, University of Toronto
→ ELLEN ‘t HOEN, LLM PhD, Director of Medicines Law & Policy – SLIDES –
→ DIETMAR HARHOFF, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Professor for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich [could not attend due to unforeseen obligations]
Moderated by CHIRANTAN CHATTERJEE, Reader in Economics of Innovation, SPRU-Sussex, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex & Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Visiting Faculty, IIM Ahmedabad.
• KEYNOTE SPEECH – ADAM B. JAFFE “PATENT METRICS FOR INNOVATION RESEARCH: OVERVIEW, UPDATE AND SPECULATION”
→ ADAM B. JAFFE, Research Professor, Brandeis University & Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management at M.I.T
– SLIDES –
On-site chair: DOMINIQUE GUELLEC, Scientific Advisor, OST-Hcéres.
Online chair: LAURIE CIARAMELLA, Assistant Professor, Télecom ParisTech & Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition.
• ROUNDTABLE “IP AND COMPETITION”
→ JORGE PADILLA, Senior Managing Director and Head of Compass Lexecon Europe.
→ CLAUDIA TAPIA, Director IPR Policy at IPR & Licensing within the Ericsson Group.
→ REINHILDE VEUGELERS, Full Professor of Economics, KULeuven.
Moderated by GERARD LLOBET, Associate Professor, CEMFI.
Online chair: TATIANA ROSA, Assistant Professor, Universidad de Chile.
• ROUNDTABLE “CHALLENGES FOR PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICES”
→ CARSTEN FINK, Chief Economist, WIPO.
→ YANN MÉNIÈRE, Chief Economist, EPO.
→ NATHAN WAJSMAN, Chief Economist, EU Observatory on Infringements of IP Rights, EUIPO.
→ ANDREW TOOLE, Chief Economist, USPTO.
→ SAM BRAND, Chief Analyst, UK IPO.
→ JOSÉ ANTONIO GIL CELEDONIO, Director, OEPM.
On-site chair: CATALINA MARTINEZ, Tenured Scientist, CSIC Institute of Public Goods and Policies, EPIP President Elect.
Online chair: MALWINA MEJER, Economist at Intangible Economy Department, DG GROW, European Commission.
Organizing committee
• Catalina MARTÍNEZ, CSIC Institute of Public Goods and Policies, CSIC-IPP - chair;
• Laurie CIARAMELLA, Télecom ParisTech & Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition;
• Dominique GUELLEC, Observatoire des Sciences et Techniques OST-Hcéres;
• Gerard LLOBET, Center for Economic and Financial Studies – Cemfi;
• Joost POORT, University of Amsterdam, Institute for Information Law;
• Valerio STERZI, GREThA, University of Bordeaux and CNRS.
ORGANISED AND HOSTED BY
SPONSORS
CO-ORGANISERS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS