Projects
Ongoing projects
EIPIN Innovation Society
EIPIN IS is a comprehensive project at the forefront of multidisciplinary research, examining the role of intellectual property (IP) as a complex adaptive system in innovation. The focus will be on the European regulatory framework for fostering innovation with the aim of enhancing Europe’s capacity for innovation-based sustainable economic growth. The longstanding European Intellectual Property Institutes Network (EIPIN), a consortium of leading research and training centre...s in the area of intellectual property, is the driving force behind the project.
Funding agency: European Commission, MSCA-ITN-EJD
Amount: €3,865,881.60
Period: 1 March 2017 - 28 February 2021
Multiple Framework Service Contract for the provision of expertise in intellectual property
Joint framework service contract for the provision of external expertise to the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs in the field of Intellectual Property Law.
Partners: Time Lex, Spark Legal Network and Consultancy, Queen Mary University of London.
Provision of External Expertise on Foreign Policy (European Parliament Framework Contract)
In this framework contract IGIR and its partners provide studies, analyses and advice to the European parliament Trade, IP, Economics issues related to EU external foreign policy. Already completed under the framework are studies on the EU-Korea FTA, the ACTA and on EU - China Trade Relations.
Project partners: LSE, Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS), University of Parma, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Trinity College
Funder: European Parliament
Past Projects (selected)
2016 - Study on the EU competence to create an EU neighbouring right for publishers. Study funded by Digital Europe and available here.
2015 - Legal Review on Industrial Design Protection in Europe - country report Portugal. Report commissioned by Spark Legal Network and Consultancy on behalf of the European Commission. Full report available here.
2015 - The legal aspects of copyright - The added value and options for further harmonization and efficiency of the EU Copyright regime, including the projected impact on other policy areas - briefing paper. Paper co-written with and commissioned by Milieu on behalf of the European Parliamentary Research Service. Available here.
2014 - Study on impact of the protection of confidential business information. Funded by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
2013 – 2017: Tempus IP-MED. Project to promote IP law studies in the Mediterranean Region, funded by the European Commission/Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) and available here. Search for website please.
2010 - Study on Sanitary, Phytosanitary and Technical Barriers to Trade in the Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and the ACP Countries, report commissioned by ICTSD in the context of its Programme on EPAs and Regionalism, 98 pp. Available here.
2009 - Study on an international trade law perspective on sectoral greenhouse gas mitigation approaches, report commissioned by DSM Environment and Product Safety (consortium members: Corus Staal bv, ENCI bv, SABIC EuroPetrochemicals bv, Koninklijke Coöperatie Cosun u.a) in the context of the framework project “Emissions Trading and Equal Competition” awarded to the METRO Institute of Maastricht University, 69 pp. available here.