Cross-border parcel prices hamper EU-wide E-commerce

  The author of post is our colleague Wouter Vergote. Wouter holds of PhD in economics from Columbia University. …

How Does Increased Investor Protection Enhance the Dissemination of Knowledge?

This article is the second part of a three-piece series written by Lukas Vanhonnaeker (for the first part, see …

Does Intellectual Property Qualify as a Foreign Direct Investment?

This article is the first part of a three-piece series written by Lukas Vanhonnaeker. Lukas Vanhonnaeker is a doctoral …

They may know it’s Xmas, but do they know there’s IP involved?

As Christmas is drawing nigh, I found it fun appropriate to collect a number of “IP Xmas stories”. As you will …

Taking on Uber

Over the past six years, Uber has become a synonym for on-demand transportation services. The San-Francisco based start-up pioneered …

Targeted prices and privacy: the hidden cost of hiding

The recent developments in digital technologies (e-commerce, social media and networks, mobile computing, sensor technologies) have not only driven …

Time to fix patents, says The Economist, but how?

This picture illustrated the cover of the August 8th-14th 2015 issue of The Economist. In the leading article (p. …

YouTube turns freemium

On October 28th YouTube launched its new subscription service YouTube Red. So far it is only available for viewers …