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
AI and the Patent System: Disruption or Diagnosis?
by Alia Kahwaji (winner of the 4iP Council 2024 Research Awards) and Prof. Estelle Derclaye (President of ATRIP)
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Protecting What Makes Us Human (part 1) #55 – with Dr. Hayleigh Bosher
In this episode of IP Stories, we welcome Dr. Hayleigh Bosher back to the podcast, a legal expert in creative industries law and policy and Reader in Intellectual Property Law at Brunel University of London. She is the author of Copyright in the Music Industry, now out in a fully updated second edition, and the host of the podcast Whose Song Is It Anyway? She's back three years after our first conversation, with plenty of news and a new outlook on life. This conversation covers a lot of ground. We talk about musicians fighting for fair remuneration and control over their work, the challenges of applying copyright law to AI, and what happens when machines are trained on huge catalogues of human creativity. But this conversation goes beyond the law. We explore what makes human creativity so unique, why art and music matter so deeply to our lives, and why protecting creators is about more than copyright. It is about preserving the space for new ideas, new voices and new ways of seeing the world. An inspiring conversation about creativity, technology and the human experience; and a reminder of why, now more than ever, human creativity matters.
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Beyond Counterfeits: IP Enforcement and Authentication in Luxury Resale
by Christophe Gösken
Join us for a webinar with Christophe Gösken, winner of the 4iP Council 2026 Research Awards First Prize. Christophe will present his award-winning research examining how authentication mechanisms and IP strategies shape the secondary market for luxury watches — a fascinating lens on post-sale innovation governance.
