Insights
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What Do We Know and What Don’t We Know About the Consequences of the Revised Product Liability Directive?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human CapitalBy: Fredrik ErixonThe new Product Liability Directive, proposed by the European Commission in 2022, is now on its final stretch: it’s now in the trialogue and a...
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Reforming Standard Essential Patents: What do the Expert Bodies Say?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade and IP ProjectBy: Fredrik ErixonThe European Commission’s proposal to reform Standard Essential Patents (SEPs), which have been covered in several blogs by ECIPE scholars, has...
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Power, Cooperation and Standard Essential Patents – Reviewing the European Commission’s Bid for Reform
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade and IP ProjectBy: Fredrik ErixonThe European Commission’s proposal to upend the current system for Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) have prompted many reflections and a...
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Summer Reading 2023 – Book Recommendations from ECIPE
By: Fredrik ErixonNot One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate by Mary Elise Sarotte Professor Sarotte’s book is necessary reading to...
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Go Back to the Drawing Board! The Commission’s Leaked Patent Reform Would Be Bad for Technological Development and Europe
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade and IP ProjectBy: Fredrik ErixonI have finally got around to reading the leaked draft proposal by the European Commission to overhaul the system of Standard Essential Patents (SEPs)...
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The Role of Intellectual Property for the Single Market and SMEs
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade and IP ProjectBy: Fredrik ErixonThere is an intimate relation between the single market and intellectual property (IP) in that they both rely fundamentally on economies of...
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Can China Make up for the West?
The Russian economy is in disarray. The Russian ruble is in free fall; sales of foreign exchange are banned; and foreign companies are fleeing Russia...
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Russia Import Dependency Problem
There’s a lot of talk about Europe’s dependency on the Russian economy – especially the flow into Europe of oil, gas, grains, and some gases...
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The Day When History Changed: Choices and Consequences for Europe’s Future Relation to Russia
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Russia and Eurasia Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonThere are days when history accelerates. February 24th, 2022, is one of those days. If the post-Cold War order had not ended before, Russia’s...
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Introducing Our New Trade and IP Project
Research Areas: Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade and IP Project Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: intellectual propertyBy: Fredrik ErixonIntellectual Property (IP) is all around us. But in a fast evolving world, European businesses are faced with new questions regarding innovation....
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EU and the State of the Union
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceTags: EUBy: Fredrik ErixonIt’s soon time for Ursula von der Leyen to deliver her State-of-the-Union speech and it prompts the question: “what is the state of the European...
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Time for a New Industrial Policy
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Fredrik ErixonThe European Commission is reviving industrial policy – or so we are told. A year ago it released a communication on a new industrial strategy for...