08.30-09.00

Registration & coffee

09.00-13.00

PhD workshop

Prof. Irene Calboli (Texas A&M, Singapore Management University), Prof. Geertrui van Overwalle (University of Leuven), Prof. Georg von Graevenitz (University of London), Prof. Dr. Fabian Gaessler (Technical University Munich)

13.00-14.30

Lunch break

14.30-16.45

Registration

16.45-17.00 

Coffee break

17.00-19.00

Welcome speeches
and round table discussion
“IP Strategies in Dynamic Industries”

Prof. Stuart Graham (Georgia Tech), Prof. Dietmar Harhoff (Max Planck Insitut München), David Kappos, (tbc)

09.00-11.00

Keynote speech
“IP in data-driven economies”
and round table discussion

Prof. Herbert Zech (University of Basel)

11.00-11.20

Coffee break

11.20-12.40

Parallel sessions

Submissions invited in call for papers

12.40-13.40 

Lunch break

13.40-15.20

Parallel sessions

Submissions invited in call for papers

15.20-15.40

Coffee break

15.40-17.00

Parallel sessions

Submissions invited in call for papers

17.00-17.20

Coffee break

17.20-18.00

Keynote speach
“Industrial espionage and productivity”

Prof. Albrecht Glitz (Barcelona Graduate School of Economics)

19.30-tbc

Conference dinner

09.00-11.00

Keynote speech
“IP and international trade”
and round table discussion

Prof. Keith Maskus (University of Colorado), Prof. Margaret Kyle (Ecole de Mines, Paris), Benjamin Mitra-Kahn (IP Australia), Jayashree Watal (WTO), Pippa Hall (UK IP)

11.00-11.20

Coffee break

11.20-12.40

Parallel sessions

Submissions invited in call for papers

12.40-13.40 

Lunch break

13.40-15.00

Parallel sessions

Submissions invited in call for papers

15.00-15.20

Coffee break

15.20-16.30

Keynote speech
“Innovation and Development: the role of patents”

Prof. Bronwyn Hall