What are the links between growth, innovation and patents? How should we handle copyright enforcement? How is gender a major issue for IP? And what are the new developments for IP arising from 3D printing? These are among the topics of the 9th annual conference of the EPIP (European Policy for Intellectual Property) association, to be co-hosted in Brussels with the European Commission, 4-5 September 2014, under the banner: “Improving Innovation Systems”. Scholars and practitioners interested in ...
A consortium led by our School of Governance has won a million euros to manage an EU project for “Innovating Teaching and Learning of European Studies” (INOTLES). Running from 2014-2016 under the TEMPUS umbrella, the project aims to modernize higher education in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. Background INOTLES will connect Eastern partners with EU centres of excellence in e-learning, problem-based learning and simulations, to create flexible resources for European Studies courses. By establishin...
— See the first tab below for the feature article by researchmedia.eu — Europe is closing the innovation gap with the USA and Japan, but there are big performance differences between EU Member States that are diminishing only slowly. At a regional level, the innovation gap is widening, with performance having worsened in almost one fifth of EU regions. These are the main results of the latest Innovation Union and Regional Innovation Scoreboards, prepared by researchers at UNU-MERIT a...
A new study, co-authored by UNU-MERIT, says that Europe outperforms the USA for new start-ups and licence agreements. However, Europe trails the USA for patent applications, licence income and invention disclosures. The European Knowledge Transfer Report 2013 draws on the most geographically diverse survey of knowledge transfer activities in Europe, covering more than 700 organisations in over 30 countries. Researcher Nordine Es-Sadki explains the approach, data and details below....
Our EU Trend Reports tackle innovative business practices from a policy perspective. They help policymakers better understand the latest trends in business and industry innovation and provide specific policy recommendations to unleash the potential of European businesses and scale-up successful innovative solutions in the EU. Two trend reports are published every year, drawing on case studies and conference outcomes. ••• This first trend report for the EU’s Business Innovation Observatory was au...
A new workshop organized by the Regional Innovation Monitor Plus (RIM Plus) project discussed public-private partnerships for innovation on 29 October 2013. Hosted in Brussels, the event looked at stakeholder participation in the development of strategies and the design of support measures for European regions. Highlights included policy practice reports from British, Dutch, French, German and Polish regions. See below for the registration details....