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2023-24 TECHNIS web seminars

  • Tuesday the 3rd of October 2023, Carolina Castaldi, Utrecht University. Ttitle:"The propensity to trademark innovation: implications for measuringinnovation from small and medium-sized enterprises".
  • Tuesday the 24th of October 2023, Igor Letina, University of Bern. Title: "Market-Bound Research Contests",
  • Tuesday the 14th of November 2023, Steven Sturdy, University of Edinburgh, Title: "The commercial roots of the ‘genomic commons’: DNA, intellectual property, and the pharmaceutical innovation system, 1990-2013".
  • Tuesday the 28th of November 2023, Kean Birch, York University, Canada. Title: "Do Artefacts Have Political Economy?".
  • Tuesday the 6th of February 2024, Sebastian Pfotenhauer, Technical University of Munich. Title: "The politics of scaling".
  • Tuesday the 27th of February, Christian Peukert, HEC Lausanne. Title: "Exposure Compensation:Strategic Behavior and Artificial Intelligence Training Data".
  • Tuesday the 12th of March, Jacob Madden, Yale Law School. Title:"Trends in The Global Antibiotics Market".
  • Tuesday the 26th of March, Andy Stirling, SPRU. Title: "Taking Directionality Seriously: opening up hidden politics to enable innovation democracies".
  • Tuesday the 16th of April, Maik Schneider,University of Graz. Title: "Public Policy Responses to AI".
  • Tuesday the 30th of April, Emilio Calvano, University of Bologna. Ttitle: "Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Recommendations and Competition"
  • Michael Sinha, Saint Louis University School of Law,  Tuesday the 14th of May, at 15:00 London time

2022-23 TECHNIS web seminars

  • Tuesday the 27th of Septemebr 2022, Zhen Lei, Penn Sate. Title: "Diamond in the rough: Quantifying failed innovative endeavors".
  • Tuesday the 18th of October 2022, Carolina Castaldi, Utrecht University, CANCELED
  • Tuesday the 25th of October 2022, Bechtold Stefan, ETH Zurich. Title: "On the Expressive Function of Open Source"
  • Tuesday the 15th of  November 2022, Ana Santos Rutschman, Villanova University. Title: "The Role of Technology-Specificity in Promoting a Human-Centered Approach to Medicines During Transnational Public Health Crises".
  • Tuesday the 6th of December 2022, Margaret Kyle, CERNA. Title:  "TRIPS, Pharmaceutical Patents, and Generic Competition in India"
  • Tuesday the 31st of January 2023, Carlos Ponce, Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Title: "Multidimensional Innovation Responses and Foreign Competition".
  • Tuesday the 28th of February 2023, Niels Van Dijk, Vrije, Universiteit Brussels. Title: "The Challenge of Design-based Approaches for Responsible Research and Innovation Governance".
  • Tuesday the 14th of March, Stephen Hilgartner, Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University. Title:The Ubiquity of Urgency and the Limits of RRI".
  • Tuesday the 25th of  April, Madhavi Sunder, Georgetown University: CANCELED
  • Tuesday the 9th of  May, Mario Biagioli, UCLA: CANCELED
  • Tuesday the 23rd of May, Angelos Theodorakopoulos, Aston Business School. Title: "Intangibles within Firm Boundaries"
  • Tuesday the 30th of May, Margo Bagley, Emory University. Title:“Benefit‐sharing and the new multilateral mechanism for Digital Sequence Information: Avoiding past as prologue".



2021-22 TECHNIS web seminars

  • Tuesday the 19th of Oct. 2021, 11:00 GMT, Stuart Hogarth, Cambridge University, CANCELED
  • Tuesday the 9th of Nov. 2021, 11:00 GMT,  Gianluca Carnabuci, ESMT Berlin. Title: "Finding the “adjacent possible”: where recombinant inventions are most likely to occur and who is most likely to discover them".
  • Tuesday the 23th of Nov. 2021, 11:00 GMT, Roberto Fontana, University of Pavia. Title: "How far from the tree does the (good) apple fall? Spinout creation and the survival of high-tech firms".
  • Tuesday the 30th of Nov. 2021, 11:00 GMT, Guido Cozzi, University of St. Gallen. Title: "Semi-Endogenous or Fully Endogenous Growth? A Simple Unified Theory".
  • Tuesday the 14th of Dec. 2021, 11:00 GMT, Behrang Kianzad, University of Copenhagen. Title: "Excessive pharmaceutical prices and the renaissance of the “Fairness” concept in European Competition Law".
  • Tuesday the 25th of Jan. 2022, 11:00 GMT, Christina Theodoraki, Toulouse Business School. Title: "Building successful acosystems: A holistic approach"
  • Tuesday the 15th of Feb. 2022, 11:00 GMT, Elena Novelli, Bayes Business School City, University of London. Title: “When do Entrepreneurs Benefit from Acting Like Scientists? A Field Experiment in the UK"
  • Tuesday the 1st of Mar. 2022, 15:00 GMT, Stefan Bechtold, ETH Zurich. (The seminar is moved to Oct. 2022) 
  • Tuesday the 15th of Mar. 2022, 11:00 GMT, Emeric Henry, Sciences Po University. Title: "From public to private: magnitude and channels of R&D spillovers".
  • Tuesday the 12th of  Apr. 2022, 11:00 GMT, Jocelyn Bosse, King's College, London. Title: "Claiming the Kakadu Plum: Trademark law and indigenous rights to plants".
  • Tuesday the 10th of  May, 2022, 11:00 GMT, Phoebe Li, Sussex University. Title: Intellectual property duties and innovation". 
  • Tuesday the 24th of  May 2022, 15:00 GMT Haris Durrani, Princeton University. Title: Inventing Syncom: Public, Private, Global"


2020-21 TECHNIS web seminars

  • Tuesday the 6th of October 2020, Sandro Mendonça, ISCTE Business School, Portugal. Title:"The appropriateness of patent statistics: Their development and diffusion in the wake of the influential work of Zvi Griliches".
  • Tuesday the 20th of October 2020, Tanya Aplin, King's College London. Title: "The limits of EU trade secret protection".
  • Tuesday the 10th of November 2020, Leonidas Aristodemou, Cambridge University. Title: "Crisis-Critical IP challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic".
  • Tuesday the 24th of November 2020, Christian Kiedaisch, University of Namur, Belgium. Title: "Superstar Innovators and the Effect of IP Rights on Innovation".
  • Tuesday the 8th of December 2020, Carys J. Craig, York University, Canada. Title: "The Death of the AI Author".
  • Tuesday the 19th of January, 2021, Rossella Salandra, University of Bath, UK. Title: "Does Rivalry Influence Selective Reporting? A Competitive Dynamics Perspective on Comparative Trials for Antidepressant Drugs".
  • Tuesday the 16th of February 2021, Viola Prifti, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin. Title: "The Concept of “Essentially Derived Variety”. How Do EU Courts Decide?".
  • Tuesday the 2nd of March, 2021, Efstathios Arapostathis, University of Athens. Title: "Assetizing Food: Omics, Knowledge Management and Technoscientific Capitalism in Greece".
  • Tuesday the 16th of March 2021, Paula Criscuolo, Imperial College, London. Title: "Organization Structure of Development and Firm Innovation".
  • Tuesday the 11th of May 2021, Yassine Lefouli, Toulouse School of Economics. Title: "Mergers and Demand-Enhancing Innovation".
  • Tuesday the 8th of June 2021, Peter Gianiodis, Duquesne University, USA. Title: The Death and Rebirth of the Entrepreneurial University Model".

2019-20 TECHNIS web seminars

  • Tuesday15th of October 2019, Valeriya VlasovaInstitute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge, Russia. Title: "Innovation and cooperation additionality of innovation policy: empirical evidence from Russian manufacturing". 
  • Tuesday 5th of November 2019 Xan Chacko,TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Australia.

    Title: "Protection or Prohibition: The Awkward Reconciliation of Intellectual Property and Biodiversity Conservation".

  • Tuesday 26th of November 2019, Valentina Tartari, Copenhagen Business School. Title: "The Demand for Science Funding".
  • Tuesday 14th of January 2020, Dimitrios Zormpas, University of Bologna. Title:"Excess returns in Public-Private Partnerships: Do governments pay too much?".
  • Tuesday 28th of January 2020, John Liddicoat, University of Cambridge. Title: "The Effects of Myriad and Mayo on Molecular Test Development in the US and Europe: Interviews from the Frontline".
  • Tuesday 18th of February 2020, Albert Roger, ZEW. Title: "Estimating Technological Gains and Losses from International Environmental Agreements: the Case of Stock Pollutants".
  • Tuesday 17th of March 2020, Jan Kinne, ZEW. Title: "Web-based innovation indicators"
  • Tuesday 31st of March 2020, Christian Helmers, Santa Clara University, USA. Title: "Submarine Trademarks" (this seminar will take place at 15:00 London time).
  • Tuesday 5th of May 2020, Sara Gerke, Harvard Law School. Title: "Ethical and Legal Issues of Health AI and COVID-19" (this seminar will take place at 15:00 London time).
  • Tuesday 19th of May 2020, Neethu Rajam, University of Copenhagen, Seminar Cancelled due to COVID. 
  • Tuesday 9th of May 2020, Daria Kim, Max-Planck Institute for Competition and Innovation. Title: "Incentives in the Data Economy as a Case on Knowledge Externalities".

                     

2018-19 TECHNIS web seminars 

  • Tuesday 15th of January 2019 @ 12:00 GMT, Nicholas Vonortas, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, USA. Title: "An Economic Appraisal of Microgravity Protein Crystallization for Drug Development".
  • Tuesday 29th of January 2019 @ 12:00 GMT, Jacob S. Sherkow, Innovation Center for Law and Technology, New York Law School, USA. Title: "The Pick-And-Shovel Play: Bioethics For Gene-Editing Vector Patents".
  • Tuesday 12th of February 2019 @ 12:00 GMT, Devrim Göktepe-HulténDepartment of Business Administration, Lund University, Sweden. Title: "Entrepreneurial Leadership in the Academic Community: Review & Stylized Facts".
  • Tuesday 19th of March 2019 @ 12:00 GMT, Naomi Hawkins, University of Exeter, UK. Title: "Patents and genomic medicine".
  • Tuesday 7th of May 2019 @ 12:00 GMT, Vincenzo Denicolò, University of Bologna. Title: "Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Pricing and Collusion".
  • Tuesday the 21st of May 2019 @ 15:00 GMT, Alan Marco, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. Title: "Patent Citations Reexamined". 

2017-18 TECHNIS web seminars

Tue, 17 Oct. 2017, Stathis Arapostathis, (University of Athens), Tracking invention in the courts: Discursive, textual, and material entanglements in Marconi’s legal battles

Tue, 24 Oct. 2017, Natalia Zinovyeva, (Aalto University), Are Better Researchers Better Evaluators? Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment

Tue, 14 Nov. 2017, Charles Lawson (Griffith University), Plant Breeder's Rights and Essentially Derived Varieties: Still Searching for Workable Solutions

Tue, 21 Nov. 2017, Shiri Breznitz (University of Toronto), Fostering the Growth of Student Start-ups from University Accelerators: An

        Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Perspective

Tue, 28 Nov. 2017, Vanessa Behrens (ZEW), Fasten Your Seatbelts! Can the Patent Prosecution Highway Take Your Application Down the Fast              Lane?

Tue, 27 Feb. 2018, Myra Mohnen (University of Essex), Stars and Brokers: Knowledge Spillovers among Medical Scientists

Tue, 13 March 2018, Martin Watzinger (University of Munich), How antitrust can spur innovation: Bell Labs and the 1956 consent decree

Tue, 24 April 2018, Stefan Wagner (ESMT), Patents, Data Exclusivity, and the Development of New Drugs

Tue, 22 May 2018, Linda Kahl (BioBricks), Infrastructure for Open Science: Culture, Law and Policy

Tue, 5 June 2018, Pavel Chakraborty (Lancaster University), Organize to Innovate: Intellectual Property Regimes, Technology Adoption and Firm           Structure

Tue, 16th of October 2018 @ 12:00 GMT, Kyriakos Drivas, University of Piraeus. Title: “Trademark Opposition and Proximity”

Tue, 6th of November 2018 @ 16:00 GMT, Corinne Langinier, University of Alberta, Canada. Title: "Green Technology and Patents in the Presence          of Green Consumers".

Tue,y 20th of November 2018 @ 13:00 GMT, Timo Minssen, Centre for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law, Denmark. Title: "AI in the            Medical Sciences & the Lex Machina".

Tue, 4th of December 2018 @ 12:00 GMT, Abdullah Gök, Strathclyde Business School, UK. Title: Seminar Cancelled.


Past Seminars (2014-2017)

30-05-2017                  Sideri K., University of Cyprus, "Patenting diagnostics and the future of personalised medicine: Private property and the

                                      romance of the public domain".

23-05-2017                   Gkotsis P., Industrial Research and Innovation,  EU Commission, “Technological diffusion as a recombinant process”.

04-05-2017                   Scott T.,  Research Triangle Institute, USA,  "Rewarding Innovation with Patent-Buyout Options".

25-04-2017                   Dutfield G., University of Leeds, "Healthcare innovation and patent law’s ‘pharmaceutical privilege’: is there a pharmaceutical                               

                                      privilege? And if so, should we remove it?". 

28-03-2017                    Pellegrino G., EPFL, "International Mobility of Inventors and  Innovation: Empirical Evidence from the Collapse of the Soviet     

                                      Union".

21-03-2017                  Geissler M., Technische Universität Dresden, "Alumni as strategic university resource for innovativeness and

                                      competitiveness? Insights from a structured literature review on university and firm Alumni".

07-03-2017                  Fischer B., University of Campinas, “Dynamics of Technology Upgrading in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Brazilian         

                                      Universities”.

31-01-2017                  Parthasarathy S., University of Michigan, “Patents, Political Order, and the Public Interest in Comparative Perspective”.

24-01-2017                  Matt M., INRA, "Towards a Typology of Science–Industry Licensing Agreements".

12-12-2016                  Lipman A., UC Davis, "Cannibalism and Colonialism: Querying Property".

       

29-11-2016                  de Rassenfosse G., EPFL, "Indigenous Innovation and (lack of) Intellectual Property Protection".

15-11-2016                   Melero E., Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, "The Causal Effect of Patents on Inventor Mobility".

25-10-2016                   Nikolic I., UCL, "Alternative Remedies to Injunctions in SEP Disputes".

11-10-2016                  Iaria A., ENSAE, "Frontier Knowledge and the Creation of Ideas: Evidence from the Collapse of International Science in the   

                                     Wake of World War I".

07-06-2016                   Pellens M., Centre for European Economic Research, "Guilt by association".

24-05-2016                   Simeth M., Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, "Patent disclosure and the diffusion of knowledge".

17-05-2016                   Zirulia L., University of Bologna, "Double Disclosures and the Negotiation of Scientific Credit in Research Teams".

26-04-2016                   Papageorgiadis N., University of Liverpool Management School, "International Patent Systems Strength 1998-2011".

12-04-2016                  Zhen L., Penn State University, "Impacts of the NIH Public Access Policy on Knowledge Diffusion".

16-02-2016                   Berry D., University of Edinburgh,  “Putting history to work in plant IP: synbio, agroecology, and the future of farming”.

26-01-2016                   Charnley B., St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford, "Miss Ormerod’s feeling for Community" .

15-12-2015                   Moreira S., IESE Business School, "Evading the boomerang effect: Using the Grant-Back clause to prevent loss of

                                      advantage to licensing partners".

24-11-2015                    Della Malva A., University of Leuven, "Voluntary disclosure and technological competition".

17-11-2015                    Lazaridis G., EPO, "EPO Procedures and the Unitary Patent".

26-10-2015                    Lekkas T., "Copying Software in the 1980s: an illegal practice or an aspect of computer use?"

21-05-2015                    Svensson R., RIIE, "The Value of R&D: Can we use patent data to predict innovation?".

14-05-2015                    Göktepe-Hultén D., University of Lund,  "University patenting in Europe; Does faculty ownership of Intellectual Property   

                                      impede university technology transfer?"    .

07-05-2015                     Martin K., Fleming Institute, "Technology transfer at the Fleming Institute".

01-04-2015                     Kolympiris C., University of Bath, "Geographic distance between venture capitalists and investees and the value of quality 

                                       signals".

18-03-2015                     Grimpe C., Copenhagen Business school, "Markets for technology and the importance of firm-specific search for innovation

                                        performance".

28-01-2015                     Bottis M., "Patenting drugs".

17-12-2014                     Rozakis S., AUA, "Research funding and academic output: The case of Agricultural University of Athens".

19-11-2014                     Arapostathis E., University of Athens, "Industrial property, law and the politics of invention in Greece, 1900-1987".

04/06/2014                      Panagopoulos A.  'A new way of incentivizing startup patenting"

21/05/2014                      Brown A. "An introduction to pharmaceutical patenting, the case of PharmAthen".

30/04/2014                      Sideri K. "Legal norms and patent policy".

12/03/2014                     Stamatopoulos G. "Licensing non-linear technologies".

19/02/ 2014                    Drivas K. "Using renewals in identifying the industries that rely on strategic patenting".

29/01/2014                     Economidou C. "Knowledge flows and local innovation activity".