16th EIPIN Congress 2014/2015, 29-31 januari 2015

EIPIN bericht: "Europe is still lagging behind in terms of innovation. Research centres are coming up with breakthrough technologies, but the commercial follow-up is still not where it should be. As part of the EU’s “2020 strategy”, the European Commission has articulated the desire to bring European research closer to business and underlined the extreme importance of industries based on immaterial assets and new technologies for the economy. The advent of the Innovation Society, at the nexus between the information age and the learning economy, will be decisive in defining competitive economies in a global marketplace for the foreseeable future. In this context, intellectual property (IP) is a tool that can be used to valorize intellectual and industrial creativity, disseminate knowledge, transfer technology through assignment and licensing, generate income through royalties, and acquire funding posing as collateral. [...]

The 16th EIPIN Congress aims at discussing how to improve the normative environment for incentivizing ingenious efforts, securing economic benefits of its fruits and upholding justice in the innovation society. This first meeting of the 16th EIPIN Congress will explore how to meet the challenges the EU faces in an increasingly globalizing innovation environment, especially in public-private partnerships."

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