Impact Licensing Initiative releases White Papers on equitable tech transfer

📢 Publication alert ! We’re proud to have collaborated on these two new white papers that push the concept of impact licensing from theory to practice — and help shape a more equitable, sustainable, and mission-driven approach to technology transfer. ⬇️ Dive into the full texts to explore the Impact Licensing Ecosystem Model. #ImpactLicensing #SocialImpact #InnovationEcosystems #TechForGood #PolicyInnovation #TheDataTank

👀 The Impact Licensing Europe Initiative (ILI) has released its most comprehensive publication to date: the White Paper “State of the Art on Impact Licensing: Co-designing the Impact Licensing Ecosystem”, accompanied by a complementary paper “Needs Assessment for the Impact Licensing Concept: Voices from Stakeholders for Policy and Implementation.” 💡 For more information and to access the full white paper, visit https://lnkd.in/ekNG2fta

🔬 Innovation begins with discovery. We have contributed our institutional perspective to the EU policy discussions on the future of research and innovation, aligning with the goals of the proposed EU Innovation Act. 🗣️ Our core message is clear: Excellent fundamental research is the indispensable cornerstone of European competitiveness and long-term societal impact. 👉 This requires a significant increase in budget, stronger integration of basic science across all funding pillars, and enhanced flexibility to drive transformative innovation. We look forward to seeing these priorities reflected in the upcoming policies and instruments. #FundamentalResearch #InnovationAct

How do firms leverage technological M&As to strengthen their market power? Our new working paper explores how acquisitions shape innovation and firm markups, providing new insights into the dynamics of market dominance. Big thanks to my co-authors Maria Martinez Cillero Lorenzo Napolitano Francesco Rentocchini and Cecilia Seri for this great collaboration! 🔍 Read more: https://lnkd.in/e24ip9-3

Emeritus Professor Roy Green AM is Special Innovation Advisor at the University of Technology Sydney. In this excellent article he writes about Dr John H Howard's new publication, The Handbook of Innovation Ecosystems: Placemaking, Economics, Business, and Governance, which challenges the assumption that innovation can be engineered through expenditure alone. John frames innovation as a systemic process requiring the deliberate alignment of four interdependent domains: placemaking, economics, business and governance. Each draws upon a shared foundation of physical, knowledge, financial and social capital. Perhaps the most consequential implication lies in the re-conceptualisation of government's role. John proposes a shift from program management to ‘system stewardship’. Governments must see themselves as custodians of the conditions that allow innovation to thrive. This involves investing in governance capability, maintaining policy coherence across electoral cycles and building the trust and legitimacy that underpin collaboration. The Handbook goes further by demonstrating that the craft of stewardship (patient leadership, transparent governance and adaptability) is as important to R&D outcomes as any single funding mechanism. R&D is understood as part of a living, evolving system of national capability. The key message of the Handbook is that renewal of Australia's research and innovation system depends on recognising innovation as both an institutional craft and a civic responsibility, one that demands a well thought through combination of practical measures with long-term vision. It should be essential reading for all those interested in how to create a more dynamic, inclusive and sustainable knowledge economy in Australia. Regional Development Australia Moreton Bay and Sunshine Coast Inc. Andrew Eves-Brown Tracey C.

https://lnkd.in/dZCKdzxm: This report should open the eyes of the European policymakers and bureaucrats, as their vision of how innovation actually happens is far from reality, and they continue to waste much money in stimulating innovation in the wrong way! Check out page 57 of the report. " Our analysis reveals that a large share of EU support for innovation is absorbed by companies that specialize in obtaining Horizon grants, often subsidiaries of large corporations, participating in dozens and in some cases as many as 200 projects. Horizon grants have become a regular source of financing for these companies, rather than an opportunity to fund innovative ideas. " Experts, such as Tom Broekel have already highlighted the problems with such rigid funding systems! https://lnkd.in/dxVBc8KS: Here is the full report

💡 Researchers & Innovators — Don’t Let Your Ideas Go Unrecognized 🌍 Every day, brilliant minds in our universities and research centers create new solutions — new technologies, improved methods, green innovations — yet too often, their names never appear where they should: on the invention itself. If you’ve contributed to a discovery or an innovation, you have the right under Intellectual Property law to: 🔹 Be officially named as an inventor; 🔹 Receive royalties or financial benefits from your work; 🔹 And be acknowledged for shaping the nation’s innovation landscape. Your ideas are not just academic outputs — they are intellectual assets. Protect them. Own them. Let them work for you. At TELWise IP Consulting Ltd., we help researchers and institutions identify, protect, and commercialize their innovations through patents and IP strategies that ensure inventors are recognized and rewarded. 👉 Let’s build a research culture that values invention as much as publication. #IntellectualProperty #Innovation #Research #Patents #Rwanda #TechnologyTransfer #TELWiseIPConsulting

Time for some new paper! Is it good or bad (in terms of inventive and innovative performance) for a firm to join a consortium that includes a top R&D investor (aka, a big / #superstar #firm)? Well: in our latest work, Sara Amoroso (the real brain behind all this) and I find something intriguing: if you do, you will experience a #tradeoff, with higher chances to win a bid, but lower output afterwards. Why so? We advance several theories that can rationalise the findings, but overall it's a matter of #power imbalance in #collaborative #innovation! While this work is focusing on the nature and structure of #knowledge #spillovers and #transfer, it has #competition #policy implications: maybe teaming up with the big ones is not always the best thing to do, both for a firm and for societal welfare? Here's the abstract and you find the working paper version here https://lnkd.in/e_wQYadg as a GREDEG-CNRS, Université Côte d'Azur CNRS Côte d'Azur, and attached. Thanks Patrice Bougette for adding it to the series. This is a long-standing work, and you might have seen it appearing several years ago, but it has now been revised and improved! ----- The participation of top R&D investors in publicly funded research collaborations is a common, yet largely unexplored phenomenon. It creates opportunities for knowledge spillovers and may increase the chance for a project to be funded. At the same time, the unbalanced nature of such partnerships could exacerbate power asymmetries and hinder the overall performance of such collaborations. In this paper, we examine whether cooperating with top R&D companies affects the innovative performance of publicly funded research consortia. We build a fit-for-purpose dataset that matches information from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) on R&D collaborative projects and proposals with data on the world's top 2,500 companies with the highest R&D investment (R&D Scoreboard). Accounting for both sample selection and endogeneity in the participation of top R&D investors in a two-part count model framework, we find that teaming up with leading R&D companies increases the probability of obtaining funds. However, this comes at the cost of hindering the innovative performance of the funded projects, both in terms of patents and publications. In light of this evidence, the tradeoffs of mobilizing top R&D players should be carefully leveraged in the evaluation and design of innovation policies aimed at R&D collaboration and technology diffusion. Frédéric Marty Tommaso Valletti Tomaso Duso Université Côte d'Azur EUR Economie et Management - ELMI

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £2 million for feasibility studies. These studies aim to speed the translation of advanced materials innovations in six key high growth themes and one strategic opportunity theme. https://lnkd.in/d9DkV9Vi

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