Program Details

Program of the Summer School:

The School lectures will be divided into two main parts. In the first part, the Summer School will focus on business networks, seen as a government models of cooperation between economic actors, focusing on understanding of phenomena and current issues, including: organizational choices related to innovation and internationalization strategies, the role of contracts and intellectual property as a means for fostering investment and collaboration among companies, government chain of innovation in the global marketplace.

In the second part, the field of intellectual property in the context of networks will be further studied in-depth: after an initial review of the specific tools of innovative knowledge management and the proprietary rights involved, the patent regulatory role, but also copyrights and trademarks will be considered in the specific context of digital technologies, biotechnology and agri-food sector.

 

Schedule:

Monday, July 2, h 9.30 - 17.30
Innovation, Inter-Firm Networks and IPRs
 
9.30 
Introduction to the Summer School
Prof. P. Iamiceli – Prof. R. Caso (University of Trento)
 
9.45 – 10.30
Opening Address: the EPO Patent Academy and its role to support innovation in Europe
Dr. Noël Campling (Director Know-How, European Patent Academy, EPO)
 
10.30 – 12.30
Intellectual property as a Tool for strengthening Inter-Firm Networks, Inter-Firm Networks as a Tool for strengthening Intellectual property
Prof. Laurent Manderieux (Bocconi University and University of Francophone States)
 
14.30 – 17.30 
Contracting for Innovation and the role of inter-firm networks: Economic Theory and Current Practices  
Prof. Anna Grandori (Bocconi University – Milan - Italy)
 
08.00 pm: Social Dinner
 
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Tuesday, July 3, h 9.30 - 17.30
Collaboration contracts and Economics of Innovation 
 
9.30 – 12.30 
Collaboration contracts and long term investments: a law and economics approach
Dr. Mireia Artigot (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
 
14.30 – 17.30 
IPRs and R & D networks
Prof. Stefano Breschi  (Bocconi University)
 
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Wednesday, July 4, h 9.30 - 17.30
IPRs in the digital environment
 
9.30 – 12.30 am
"Software protection in (European) IP law"
Dr. Christian Heinze (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg)
 
3.00 – 5.00 pm
Digital environment and Open IPRs
Prof. Massimiliano Granieri (University of Foggia)
 

5.00 – 6.00 pm
Presentation and discussion of participants’ research projects”

 
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Thursday, July 5, h 9.30 - 17.30
IPRs in the Bio-tech sector
 
9.30 – 12.30 am 
Patents, research networks and biotechnology
Dr. Nadja Kanellopoulou (University of Oxford)
 
3.00 –  4.00 pm
Policy issues and ethics
Prof. Richard Gold (McGill University – Montréal)
 
4.00 – 6.00 pm
Open Source Models in the research networks of the Bio-tech sector
Dr. Thomas Margoni (University of Amsterdam – IvIR)
 
08.00 pm: Social Dinner
 
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Friday, July 6, h 9 am – 1.30 pm
IPRs in the biological and agro-food sectors
 
9.30 – 11.30 am
Craftmanship, inter-firm networks and the protection of GIs
Dr. Matteo Ferrari (McGill University – University of Trento)
 
11.30 – 13.30 Presentations and discussion of participants' research projects
 
13.45 Buffet 
 
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End of the Summer School
 
 

Online materials: https://comunitaonline.unitn.it/