Measuring the value of IPR: theory, business practice and public policy
Conference date and venue
24-25 September 2009
Aula Prodi - Complesso San Giovanni in Monte
Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2 - Bologna, Italy
Railway Station: 4 Km
Airport: 11 Km
How to get there
Online Registration opening June 10, 2009
Call for papers - Time Schedule
Hotel accomodation
All reservations must be made by the participants themselves.
Please find a list of suggested hotels and guest quarters in Bologna – close to the conference venue or in proximity of the historical city centre. You may benefit of special rates that we have arranged for the conference, thus, please when making your reservation refer to: UNIBO EPIP.
However, please note that the number of rooms is limited and that there is no guarantee of special rates after 27 August 2009. Moreover there will be an important exhibition in Bologna during that period, we suggest you to book your hotel as soon as possible.
A complete list of hotels in Bologna is also available at this link.
The Conference
One of the greatest challenges for business practitioners and policy-makers today is to converting ideas and intangible assets into economic wealth, and to translate innovations into higher levels of welfare. In particular, issues of IP (intellectual property) are becoming a key element to management of innovation, given the continuous change and the rising level of knowledge intensity of economic activities.
The conference aims to stimulate the scientific and policy debate on current controversial IP topics, such as the validity of different methods for assessing the value of IP, from patents to trademarks, the obstacles to the development of efficient markets for technologies, the costs of strategic patenting and patent litigation, and IP policy harmonization across countries. These are key issues in the economics and management of IP whose profound understanding still entails much theoretical and empirical work. From this perspective, we aim to stimulate and collect novel theoretical, empirical and policy-oriented works with different approaches, from quantitative to qualitative, in-depth case studies.