Research & Webinars
Here we provide a number of reports and research summaries related to SMEs and innovation. You will find additional materials in our main research section.
Papers, briefs and publications
Tanya Ewing, FRSA
Tanya Ewing is an award winning Scottish entrepreneur and a successful inventor. Voted 'British Female Inventor of the Year 2008', she created the real-time energy monitor and display system called "Ewgeco" and founded a company called Tayeco to commercialise her idea.
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Adrienne Corboud Fumagalli
Vice President Innovation and Technology Transfer at EPFL in Lausanne shares her experience with 4iP. (Photo: Michael Stahl)
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Patent = monopoly: a legal fiction
by Sven Bostyn, Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law, University of Liverpool Law School and Nicolas Petit, Professor of Law, University of Liege, December 2013
This paper explores terminological confusion and historical misunderstanding of ’monopoly’ rights in patent law as distinct from the meaning of a market monopoly in antitrust theory.
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Categories: IP and Competition Law
Stealth Licensing
by Prof. Dr. Nicolas Petit – April 2014
This paper traces the expansion of ‘stealth licensing’ by regulatory bodies and explores its implications on company R&D investments in Europe.
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Categories: Trade Law and Regulation
Resources that we like
Friends of 4iP Council support the view that intellectual property rights enable innovation and increase social and economic welfare and may collaborate with us through input on specific projects.
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Ecosystem partners
Our ecosystem partners share a common focus with 4iP Council and collaborate with us to help promote the understanding of intellectual property rights as an enabler of innovation and means to increase social and economic welfare.
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Supporters
Organisations supporting 4iP Council have research and development activities in Europe and share the view that intellectual property rights enable innovation and increase social and economic welfare.