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.

 

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