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• Day 1, Wednesday 28th November 2012
  09:00 - 18:00
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• 09:00 - 09:15
  Welcome and Opening Addresses
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• Andrew Wyckoff
  Director, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)
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• Nikolaus Thumm
  Chief Economist, European Patent Office (EPO)
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• 09:15 - 10:45
  Session 1 - Innovation Modes and Firm Performance
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• Chair
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• Bronwyn H. Hall
  University of California, Berkeley
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• Bart Van Looy
  KU Leuven
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• Travis J. Lybbert
  University of California, Davis
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• Michelle Gittelman
  Rutgers Business School
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• 11:15 - 13:00
  Panel 1 - The “Intellectual Property (IP) Bundle”: Global IP rights Challenges
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• Chair
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• Mariagrazia Squicciarini
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
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• Ruud Peters
  Executive Vice President Chief Intellectual Property Officer Philips
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• Robert DeBerardine
  Vice President Head of Global Patent Department Sanofi
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• Nathan Wajsman
  Chief Economist Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM)
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• Nikolaus Thumm
  Chief Economist European Patent Office (EPO)
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• Carsten Fink
  Chief Economist World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
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• 14:30 - 16:00
  Session 2 - The Value of Innovations
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• Chair
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• Thomas Blailock
  Ocean Tomo
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• Monte J. Shaffer
  University of Arizona
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• Tuomas Takalo
  Bank of Finland
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• Béatrice Dumont
  University of Paris XIII and College of Europe
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• 16:30 - 18:00
  Session 3 - New Challenges
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• Chair
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• Sadao Nagaoka
  Hitotsubashi University
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• Tim Pohlmann
  Berlin University of Technology
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• Martin Wörter
  ETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Economic Institute
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• Diego Useche
  University of Montesquieu Bordeaux IV
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• Day 2, Thursday 29th November 2012
  09:00 - 18:00
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• 09:00 - 10:30
  Panel 2 - Knowledge Assets and Economic Growth: The Role of Policy
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• Introduction
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• Andrew Wyckoff
  Director Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
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• Richard A. Boucher
  Deputy Secretary-General Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
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• Francis Gurry
  Director General World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
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• Benoît Battistelli
  President European Patent Office (EPO)
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• Jorge Ávila
  President Instituto Nacional de Propriedade Industrial (INPI)
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• 11:00 - 13:00
  Session 4 - IP Systems and the Role of Policy
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• Chair
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• Mark Schankerman
  London School of Economics
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• Chiara Criscuolo
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
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• Brian Wright
  University of California, Berkeley
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• 14:15 - 16:00
  Session 5 - Innovation and Financing
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• Chair
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• Dietmar Harhoff
  LMU Munich
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• Melissa F. Wasserman
  University of Illinois College of Law
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• Michael D. Frakes
  Cornell Law School
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• Yann Ménière
  MINES ParisTech
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• Christos Kolympiris
  Wageningen University and Research Center
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• 16:30 - 18:00
  Session 6 - The Location of Innovations
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• Chair
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• Jinyoung Kim
  Korea University
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• Riccardo Crescenzi
  London School of Economics
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• Carlo Menon
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
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• Lucio Picci
  University of Bologna