Young Scholar AwardS

Each year, the EPIP Association awards two Young Scholar Awards for the best papers submitted to the EPIP conference by PhD students in economics/management and in law.
Award winners are honored during the EPIP conference and receive a cash prize of 500€ each.

 
 

>2024

19TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE: ”intellectual property and the future of the data economy” - PISA, ITALY

  • Economics/Management: Zachary LUTHER – Anti-foreign bias in patent protection: global evidence - Vanderbilt University, USA

  • Law: Eleonora VISENTIN – The death of the actor? Legal perspectives on the use of AI in the film industry and performers’ rights – Bocconi University Milan, Italy

>2023

18TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE: ”IP, INNOVATION AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES - CHALLENGING THE PRESENT, INSPIRING THE FUTURE” - KRAKÓW, POLAND

  • Economics/Management: Weiqi ZHENG - The Divisional Game: Using Procedural Rights to Impede Generic/Biosimilar Market Entry - Management Department, Strategy and Organization track, Tilburg University, the Netherlands

  • Law: Katarina FOSS-SOLBREKK - The Divisional Game: Using Procedural Rights to Impede Generic/Biosimilar Market Entry  - Oxford University, Faculty of Law and Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, United Kingdom

>2022

17TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE: ”OPENING IP FOR A BETTER WORLD?” - Cambridge, United Kingdom

  • Economics/Management: Dandan  XIA - Patent Disclosure and Firm New Product Performance – Evidence from China - IESE Business School, Spain

  • Law: Lisa VAN DONGEN - Proportionality and Flexibilities in Final Injunctive Relief  - Tilburg University, The Netherlands

>2021

16TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE: ”IP AND THE FUTURE OF INNOVATION” - Madrid, Spain

  • Economics/Management: Thomas SCHAPER - Online repositories, search costs and cumulative innovation - KU Leuven, Belgium

  • Law: Natasha MANGAL - Optimizing Copyright Regulation in the EU for the Digital Single Market: Institutional Perspectives on Reform - CEIPI, University of Strasbourg, France

>2020

2020 ONLINE conference

  • Economics/Management: Tatiana ROSÀ - Cooperation, Competition and Patents: Understanding Innovation in the Telecommunication Sector - CEMFI, Spain

  • Law: Niccolò GALLI - Patent Aggregation in Europe: The Spotlight on Patent Licensing by Patent Aggregators - Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Germany

>2019

14th Annual Conference: ”The Future of IP” - Zurich, switzerland

  • Economics/Management: Lucy Xiaolu WANG - Global Drug Diffusion and Innovation with a Patent Pool: The Case of HIV Drug Cocktails - Cornell University, USA

  • Law: Lucius KLOBUČNÍK & Thomas Y. LU - Comparative Analyses of the DSP Liability Re-gimes and Safe Harbor Policies Between the US and EU  - Queen Mary University of London, U.K. / Washington University in St.Louis, USA

>2018

13th Annual Conference: ”IP in a data-driven economy: new challenges for law, economics and social sciences” - berlin, germany

  • Economics/Management: Stefano BARRUFFALDI & Felix PÖGE - A Firm Scientific Community - Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Germany

  • Law: Bernd Justin JÜTTE - Forcing Flexibility with Fundamental Rights - Questioning the dominance of exclusive rights  - University of Nottingham, U.K.

>2017

12th Annual Conference: ”The Geography-IP Interface” - bordeaux, france

  • Economics/Management: Elie SUNG - Evaluation of a policy change weakening patents and its effect on firm strategy - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

  • Law: Asako Wechs HATANAKA - Optimising mediation for intellectual property law - Perspectives from EU, French and UK law  - Ritsumeikan University, Japan