Trade in Ideas Program Presentation and Discussion at WTO
On Feb 26, 20+ developing and developed countries joined a presentation and discussion of the new Trade in Ideas Program. The program aims at facilitating trade in ideas – based on markets in patent – between “North” and “South” as a new development policy. Understanding the forces that are at play in such trade is […]
Trade in Ideas as New Development Policy: Multi-country Pilot-study funded by Sweden on Economic Potential for Developing Nations Licensing Own Patents
How do can you leverage the recent human capital formation that has taken place in many developing countries in the last two decades? This pilot-study will investigate the economic potential of markets in patent as instrument of development, leveraging national inventors, licensing to the world markets. 16 countries with high human capital formation, some patenting, […]
The Swedish IA Gap&Space for Competitiveness in a Global World
The Swedish IA Gap&Space for Competitiveness in a Global World: Complacency in Economic – Social – Environment agen-das and strategy to inform new policy. Leif Edvinsson Eskil Ullberg Carol Lin Final draft for report edited by Sarah Lidé November 30, 2017 Report: The Swedish IA Gap&Space. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Trade in Ideas as New Development Policy – WTO Trade Dialogue Series June 2017
Presentation of Trade In Ideas as New Development Policy at WTO Trade Dialogue Series in 2017. Eskil Ullberg, Adjunct Professor, George Mason University (full lecture) Short version (3min)
IMIT 2017-
Senior Reserach Scholar at the Institute for Management of Innovation and Technology (IMIT) from July 2017- Two major projects are run within this institute, intimately relate to the Trade In Ideas concept.
Speech at WTO: Trade in Ideas as New Development Policy
Trade Dialogues Lecture Series As part of its Trade Dialogues Series, the WTO will be inviting leading technical experts to share their insights with WTO members and the broader trade community on important economic and policy developments. I will be discussing the role of organized markets in facilitating this global trade in ideas as well […]
Institutions, not only enforcement, key to generating growth through patent market coordination
Why are inventors willing to take more risk in searching for new, more productive technology? This article examines coordination between inventors inventing and innovators in need for and using new patented technology, using an economic experiment. The results indicate that the institutional arrangements matter more than enforcement in this learning process. In particular increased flexibility in […]
Risk Management and the strategic role of services and IP in today’s economy
How should services be priced? This article outlines five steps towards a service logic driven by changes in IP and deregulation of major economic activities. Article was published in Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance in 2002 and can be found at Geneva Associations.
Transatlantic workshop on patent markets with EC – key issues discussed
Several fundamental issues were discussed during a one-day trans-atlantic workshop in Brussels on March 3, 2016, with representatives from top patent licensing firms in the world and EU as well as US policy makers. The aim was to identify current and emerging issues in the patent market that could merit further research efforts funded by agencies – and firms – […]
How can Patent Markets Enable Growth? – a Trans-Atlantic Workshop with the European Commission and Vinnova
A transatlantic workshop has been organised together with the European Commission with global corporate practitioners, policymakers from EC/SME & GROWTH and the US Trade Commission, European and other Patent Offices, and selected experts in the field of patenting, licensing among others, to identify and prioritize issues towards a market in patents. Special focus will also be given to […]