External events & networking

Selected conference presentations, and external events co-organized by UNU-MERIT researchers

8-13 November, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Internet Governance Forum, Open Standards Conference (Rishab Aiyer Ghosh)

6 November, Athens, Greece, Sectoral Innovation Panel (Hugo Hollanders)

30 October – 1 November, Oslo, Norway, CAS workshop on "Innovation in Firms" (Bronwyn Hall)

29 October, Chicago, USA, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Roundtable Discussion of Intellectual Property and Competition Issues Relating to Financial Markets (Bronwyn Hall)

18-20, Keystone, Colorado, USA. North American Case Research Association (NACRA) 2007 Annual Meeting. Paper: "ADT: UnDutching the Undutchables?" (Nantawan Noi Kwanjai)

10-17 October, New York, UNITAR/UNCTAD FOSS conference (Rishab Aiyer Ghosh)

8-9 October, Sevillle, Spain, EU Conference on Knowledge for Growth, Plenary session presentation (Bronwyn Hall)

2-4 October, Tampere, Finland, OpenMinds conference, Keynote Speaker  (Rishab Aiyer Ghosh)

2-3 October, Venice, Italy. Bronwyn Hall, EPO/OECD/DIME conference on Patent Statistics.  Report on the new NBER (Bronwyn Hall)

1 October: European Broadcasting Union FLOSS conference + Open Standards WIPO/WTO members Briefing (Rishab Aiyer Ghosh)

26-27 September, Paris, France.  High Level Workshop on “Dialogues for a Sustainable Development - EU and China” (Can Huang and Luc Soete)

19-22 September: Lund, Sweden, 2nd annual EPIP conference. Paper entitled "Empirical Analysis of Patent Litigation in the Semiconductor Industry" (Bronwyn Hall)

19 September: Brussels, Belgium. SING/EPIP EU Patent Policy Workshop at the EC (Bronwyn Hall)

17-18 September: London, UK.  Atlantic Consumer Dialog conference on Open Standards  (Rishab Aiyer Ghosh)

6-9 September: Valencia, Spain. 34th European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE) Conference. Paper on “The Impact of Innovation Activities on Productivity and Firm Growth: Evidence From Brazil” (Micheline Goedhuys)

6-9 September: Budapest, "The Budapest Dialogue - Intellectual Property, Creative Economies and their Consumers" (Bronwyn Hall)

29 August: Tokyo, Japan. UNU/UNESCO International Conference, Pathways Twards a Shared future:  Changing roles of Higher Education in a Globalized World. Keynote presentation (Luc Soete)

21-25 August: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. World IT Forum: Open Source and Open Standards (Rishab Aiyer Ghosh and Philipp Schmidt)

20-21 August, Aspen, CO, USA. Aspen Summit - Making Markets: Critical Information Policy Choices, Panel on property rights and patent reform (Bronwyn Hall).

16-18 July, Xiamen, China.  WISE, 14th International Conference on Panel Data
(Pierre Mohnen)

2-5 October, GREQAM-ANR Summer School, Knowledge, Science & Innovation, Aix-en Provence, France (Pierre Mohnen)

11-13 July, Taipei, Taiwan. Far Eastern Meeting of the Econometrics Society  (Pierre Mohnen)

25 June, Beijing, China. Second Global Conference on Economic Geography, organized by The Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. Paper: ‘Diversity in knowledge-base of regions in the enlarged European Union’ (René Wintjes)

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