Contracts, Copyright & Data on the Internet of Things
How do consumer contracts deal with copyright and data on the Internet of Things? Our research identifies copyright related restrictions, as well as competition, data portability and privacy issues.
Trade, IP, and Innovation: Lessons from COVID-19
This chapter addresses intersections among international trade law, intellectual property rights, and domestic innovation policies to prevent, detect, and treat pandemics.
“Open” Innovation Policy Frameworks
How can policymakers respond to new forms of innovation? This study explores IP and marketplace policy options…
Innovation Appropriation: A Role for IP in the Informal Sector?
I was in Geneva recently to participate in a special session about innovation, IP, and the informal economy…
Knowledge and Innovation in Africa: Scenarios for the Future
The question is not whether IP rights will be relevant in the future, but rather which rights will be most important…
Intellectual Property and Innovation: Collaborative Dynamics in Africa
These case studies show how IP can aid collaborative innovation systems if policymakers prioritise…
Informal Sector Innovation and IP: Concepts, Metrics, and Policy Considerations
How does innovation happen in the informal sector? To answer these questions our interdisciplinary framework…
International Trade in Biofuels: Legal and Regulatory Issues
Governments around the world are betting heavily on biofuels as one part of a solution to a wide range of public policy challenges, from environmental sustainability in the face of climate change, to energy security given rising geopolitical instability, to economic growth especially in rural regions and developing countries. Policy interventions typically take the form […]
Intellectual Property and Innovation: My Testimony to Parliament
The Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology integrated several of my recommendations…
Entrepreneurship and Open Innovation: Models for Future Success in North Africa
How can companies, governments, and not-for-profits, and other organizations benefit from open innovation systems? What lessons can African innovators learn from the experiences of entrepreneurs, or public policy makers, in the developed world? Maybe more importantly, what can Egyptian and other North African entrepreneurs teach the world about leveraging access to knowledge to empower communities of innovators […]
