International Workshop in Law and Economics: Open Innovation

The Centre of Legal Research of Grenoble (Université Grenoble Alpes), and the Grenoble Applied Economics Lab (Université Grenoble Alpes, INRA, CNRS and Grenoble INP) will hold an International Workshop in Law and Economics. Focused on Open Innovation and forms of intellectual property rights (IPRs) and/or contractual arrangements that may enable the sharing of knowledge and innovation, this workshop will be held on June 13-14, 2019, in Grenoble (France).

Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:
– Open source licenses,
– Patent clearinghouses,
– Patent pools,
– IPRs on Digital Goods,
– IPRs on plants,
– IPRs and incentives to innovate.

A special session will be scheduled for doctoral students.

Two keynote lectures will be delivered by the Professors Paul Belleflamme  (CORE, Université catholique de Louvain) and Geertrui Van Overwalle (CiTiP, K.U. Leuven).

A round table will be organized at the end of each day. The first will deal with the role of open innovation in plant breeding and agricultural research, the second will address open innovation in academic research.

Please note that there is no registration fee for the presenting authors.

The deadline for submitting papers is January 15th, 2019.

Notification of acceptance by the Scientific Committee and detailed instructions will be provided to presenting authors by March 15th, 2019.

For further information, please consult the attached Call for Papers or the website : https://workshop.inra.fr/open-innovation