MyMicroInvest, a Belgian crowdfunding platform for European entrepreneurs

This is the third post adapted from term papers that my master students submitted in June 2013. This post …

Fixing the software patent problem

In an article published  the New York Times on October 7, 2012, Charles Duhigg and Steve Lohr give a critical view of …

The economics of copyright protection

A few weeks ago (September 14, 2013), the blog American Thinker published quite a vocal piece, entitled “Copyright Strangulation”, condemning …

How entrepreneurial should the state be?

  In a chapter that I wrote in 2008 for the book “Intellectual Property and the Theories of Justice” …

Innovation and economic growth

The central role that innovation plays in driving economic growth is well known thanks to the pioneering work of …

What is the future of BlackBerry?

This is the second post adapted from term papers that my master students submitted in June 2013. This post …

Building on Batibouw to understand two-sided platforms (2)

I start here a series of posts that are adapted from term papers that my master students submitted in …

Les corsaires de brevets

Ils mènent une guerre sans merci, en défendant les brevets d’autrui. (Cet article a été publié dans La Libre Belgique …

A feeling of “déjà entendu” (3)

Dans les deux premiers numéros de cette série (n°1 et n°2), j’avais pointé des ressemblances plus ou moins troublantes …

Beware! Privateers patrol these patent waters.

In 1572, Queen Elizabeth I of England commissioned Francis Drake to sail for America and encouraged him to plunder …