Beware of the ‘mutant copyrights’ in a trademarked culture!

The European Copyright Society (ECS) was founded in January 2012 with the aim of creating a platform for critical …

Plain packaging, trademark protection and Investment Treaties: Get ready!

The obligation of using plain packaging for tobacco products, i. e. the requirement to remove or substantially reduce the …

Uberisation : quelques clés pour mieux comprendre

Dans un article récent, le journal Le Monde explique comment Ben Becker et Elliot Glass, deux Américains actifs dans le monde …

Understanding the strategies of crowdfunding platforms

(This article, co-authored by Paul Belleflamme, Nessrine Omrani and Martin Peitz, has been published in the CESIfo DICE Report …

What is ‘patent holdup’? Should it be regulated? If yes, how?

On January 6, 2016, the Liège Competition and Innovation Institute (LCII) organized a half-day conference around the question: “Regulating …

“Big Data in the Platform Economy” – A Digest of the Conference

On May 13, 2016, the editors of IPdigIT organized a one-day conference to study the growing importance of ‘Big …

Personalized Pricing: “Big Data is watching you!”

Until recently, the idea of first-degree price discrimination was just a theoretical concept resting in standard microeconomics textbooks, as …

Conference: Big Data in the Platform Economy (May 13, 2016)

On Friday May 13, 2016, IPdigIT (together with CIPI, CORE and Crides) organizes a one-day conference on ‘Big Data …

Incumbents and the sharing economy: the example of GM

It is safe to say that the automotive industry experiences some turmoil; cars themselves, as well as the way …

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. …