Strategic Management of Intellectual Property in Business Organizations: Value, Use and Risks

19th November 2019 at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.

Save the date for the 2019 I3PM Meets Academia Conference

The Department of Economics, Management and Statistics (DEMS) at the University of Milano-Bicocca organizes a conference in cooperation with the International Institute for Intellectual Property Management (I3PM).

The conference is sponsored by the European Policy for Intellectual Property Association (EPIP) and CefES-DEMS.

There will be two keynote presentations by Dietmar Harhoff, Max Planck Institute and University of Munich and Torsten Pfeifer, Director Patent Unit Continental Europe, Ericsson, and three panel sessions addressing three key topics: (1) Managing the strategic value of IP protection, (2) Managing the Risk of IP litigation, and (3) In search for IP management best practices and solutions.

Prominent speakers from academia who have already confirmed are:

  • Martin Bader, University of Ingolstadt
  • Georg von Graevenitz, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London
  • Stuart Graham, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
  • Massimiliano Granieri, University of Brescia
  • Bruno van Pottelsberghe, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles
  • Nicola Searle, Goldsmiths, University of London 
  • Tetsuo Wada, Gakushuin University, Tokyo.

Prominent speakers from industry who have already confirmed are:

  • Alexandra Cordes, SAP SE
  • Claire F. Danielsson, Copenhagen Economics
  • Sergio Lasca, Pirelli
  • Torsten Pfeifer, Ericsson
  • Charles Roger, France Brevets
  • Cornelis Schüller, Nestlé
  • Stephanie van Wermeskerken, Philips

We aim to bring about much interaction among speakers from academia and industry and amongst participants. We strive to continue along the tracks laid out at previous successful I3PM conferences in Strasbourg and Ingolstadt.

The program and the registration form for the conference are available on the following website: www.i3pm.org