Innovation, IP, and Human Capital
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Who Reforms for Higher Productivity?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human CapitalWith weak European growth performance over a longer period of time, it is time to push reforms raising the rate of productivity growth. The EU’s...
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Building Value: The Role of Trademarks for Economic Development
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Innovation, IP, and Human Capital North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonInvestment in brands drives the allocation of resources in our economy. It increases competition, pushes firms to innovate, and decreases asymmetries...
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Intellectual Property Rights: Getting Priorities Right
Tags: intellectual propertyBy: Fredrik ErixonThis paper stands in the nexus of trade policy and IPRs – and it aims to provide a different economic foundation for IPR policies by discussing how...
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Les Fonds Souverains de Brevets (FSB) :Un nouvel instrument de défense commerciale?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: trade defenceLa prolifération des fonds souverains de brevets (FSB) fait peu débat alors même qu’il existe une demande croissante en faveur de règles, au...
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Sovereign Patent Funds (SPFs): Next-generation Trade Defence?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: trade defenceWhile there is an increasing demand for a discipline in the next generation FTAs that restricts SOEs in international trade, there is less debate on...
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Investing in Obesity Treatment to Deliver Significant Healthcare Savings: Estimating the Healthcare Costs of Obesity and the Benefits of Treatment
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human CapitalTags: healthcareBy: Fredrik ErixonObesity rates in Europe have been growing at an accelerated speed in the past two decades. In the European Union, between 36.9% and 56.7% of all...
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Is E-commerce Really the Threat to European Way of Life – or did Domestic Populism Trump the Single Market?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Innovation, IP, and Human CapitalLast week, France introduced a controversial law specifically designed to cripple Amazon to support physical bookstores. Italy is about to force...
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PRICE TAGGING THE PRICELESS: International reference pricing for medicines in theory and practice
International reference pricing (IRP) has become a popular policy instrument in Europe as government seeks to curb healthcare costs and notably...
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ACTA – The Ethical Analysis of a Failure, and its Lessons
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade, Globalisation and SecurityACTA (the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) was originally meant to enforce and harmonise IPR provisions in existing trade agreements within a...
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Value For Money: Getting Europe’s Trade and IPR Policy Right
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonFew issues in trade and international commercial policy have in the past decade provoked as much contention as intellectual property rights...
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Do Stronger IPRs Deliver the Goods (and Services) in Developing Countries?
The 1990s witnessed a global wave of intellectual property rights reform. Anchored in a series of international accords, this wave resulted in...