What is the Economic Impact of Quasi-Automatic Permanent Injunctions?
Our Approach We used a game theoretical model to assess the effects of various pan-European enforcement instruments at the pan European level on licensing negotiations. Impact The research was published with Oxford University Press and presented to various Ministries of Economy, Innovation, Science and Technology and Law at the national level, as well as to […]
Economic Impact of Patents for the Internet of Things
With the IoT constituting a major area for growth and competitiveness, it is important to identify European governance systems that help assure that. We studied how this can be achieved. Our Approach We undertook in-depth interviews with young entrepreneurs in the IoT space and discussed the role of distinct innovation approaches like IP, open source […]
Economic Impact of the Intermediary Liability Regime
To what extent does the intermediary liability regime promote an open internet, while at the same time assuring adequate investment rates in music? Created over a decade ago, our client felt it was time to undertake a factual assessment of the policy environment provided by the existing safe harbour regime. Our Contribution We undertook a […]
Economic Impact of Digital Music Royalties
A fragmented framework provided by the E.U. for collecting income from music online distorts royalty capture. This caused not only the record industry and collecting societies to make losses, but affects above all song writers and singers. Our Solution Our approach was to undertake an analysis of how much money artists lose under the current […]
Economic Impact of Standards
Our Approach We established various alliances, launched a joint petition, organized a workshop for European Parliament and the European Commission, presented at a host of conferences, blogged, published in academic fora as well as industry magazines, monitored online output as well as relevant output at the pan-European and national level. Impact We countered negative voices, […]
Economic Impact of IP Development Aid
One donor of IP related development aid was eager to assess the impact of IP related development assistance. In particular it was keen to establish the economic return on various IP related financial support schemes. Our Approach We used an institutional economics framework to map the impact of technical assistance on development aid. Impact We […]
Competitiveness and Open Access Licenses
The Austrian Council for Technology Development advises the Austrian Government on various Technology Policy Challenges. As such, it had to formulate a policy advise on Open Access. We were invited to provide a comprehensive assessment to help the Government manoeuvre through various policy challenges. Our Contribution We assessed a host of different policies across the […]
Economic Impact of Patent Offices
Various international organisations invited us to assess the potential of management reforms of intellectual property offices in developing countries. Our Approach We assessed the training needs, the institutional potential and established how and where further technical assistance will be needed. We also re-designed the patent offices and set up a novel organisational infrastructure. Impact Our […]
Fostering Competitiveness by Optimizing Costs
Universities in this country have so far hardly embraced the concept of efficiency. With funding primarily received by the public sector there was also no particular pressure to assure the most effective use of resources. The Ministry of Science and Economy was thus eager to promote ‘value for education’ and assure that universities are run […]
Promoting Competitiveness in Open Source Software
The client was eager to promote public policy of benefit to the open source community replace with.: to incite a public policy dialogue on open source software. It approached us with the question Our Contribution We established the economic argument by illustrating how Open Source Software helps create jobs and by quantifying how many jobs […]