NEW book on Intellectual Property Statistics to inform Trade in Ideas
What is the value of cross-border Trade in Ideas (IP)? This question can only be given a sketchy answer today as theories of value, methods and data are lacking to provide accurate information for policy makers, businesses and inventors. This information is important for a well functioning market in patents, especially North-South exchange in patented […]
Trade in Ideas Program: Start-up Phase
The 5th meeting of the informal team of the trade in ideas program took place today, October 30, at WTO. The purpose of the program is to leverage the human capital formation of especially developing nations through markets in patents. The goal is to reduce risk and uncertainty in such markets for inventors so they […]
Economic efficiency of patent markets: SEP licenses under FRAND conditions
A long-standing principle of patent systems is that the patent holder can decide whom to license based on the field-of-use and what to ask, creating a mechanism to price differentiate, that is, to charge different prices for the same patented technology, depending on the value of its use. Such a mechanism allows the patented […]
First Trade in Ideas Training Workshop in cooperation with the WTO Chair Program
The first traded in ideas training workshop was carried out through the WTO Chair Program in 2019. Please find short summary from the WTO webpage or here. “A training workshop on trade in ideas was organized by the Oman WTO Chair in collaboration with the Innovation and Technology Transfer Center of Sultan Qaboos University (SQU). […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
Recent Comments