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    Presentation at WTO of Trade in Ideas Pilot-study: Next Steps

    What is the economic potential of trade in ideas? Chile, El Salvador, Peru, Kenya, Azerbaijan, South Africa and Uganda are participating in a forward-looking study to inform a new economic development policy based on leveraging the human capital formation of developing nations through markets in patents (licensing). A first pilot-study consisting of surveys of inventors on cross-border […]

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    WTO Working Group on Trade and Transfer of Technology

    On October 26, 10-12, a presentation of the Trade in Ideas Program took place at the WTO for the Working Group on Trade and Transfer of Technology (WGTTT). El Salvador, a participant in the Trade in Ideas Pilot-study, had asked the EC, through Sweden, the funder of the pilot-study, to give an overview of the […]

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    ABC RN (Australia) Interview on “A Global Patent Market”

    ABC RN in Australia interviewed on “A Global Patent Market” as a consequence of the Op-Ed together with Edmund Phelps, Columbia. IMAGE: ONE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI’S MOST FAMOUS INVENTIONS, THE FLYING MACHINE (ALSO KNOWN AS THE “ORNITHOPTER”) IDEALLY DISPLAYS HIS POWERS OF OBSERVATION AND IMAGINATION, AS WELL AS HIS ENTHUSIASM FOR THE POTENTIAL OF […]

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    Re-publ.: The world is turning its back on the inventor. This is what needs to change

    Re-published op-ed with the World Economic Forum. The world is turning its back on the inventor. This is what needs to change

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    The Need for a Global Patent Market*