Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia

Day One - Thursday 21st January 2010

8:30 - 9:00

Registration

Ground Floor, Melbourne Law School

9:00 - 9:30

Welcome Address

Lecture Theatre G08

Beth Webster, Director IPRIA

Opening Address

Philip Noonan, Director General, IP Australia

9:30 - 11:00

Plenary Session 1 – Keynote Addresses

Lecture Theatre G08

Evaluating the Public Impact of Open Innovation
Rochelle C. Dreyfuss, Pauline Newman Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

Patent Rights and Economic Growth: Evidence from Cross-Country Panels of Manufacturing Industries

11:00 - 11:30

Morning Tea Break

Foyer, Level 1

11:30-13:00

Concurrent Sessions - A

Chair:

A.1 – Collaboration

Theatre 109, Level 1

Owen Morgan

D. Stewart - A  Restatement of the Role of Patents in Encouraging Collaboration

C. Schneider - R&D Collaboration with Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights

C. Grimpe - Learning to Collaborate for Technology Development: Longitudinal Evidence for Patenting Firms in Denmark

D. Nicol - Patenting and Patent-Based Cooperation in the Australian Biotechnology Industry

Chair:

A.2 – Patent Quality

Theatre 106, Level 1

Chris Dent

G. Messinis - Minimising Country Biases in Patent Value Statistics: A Closer Look at Forward Citations (paper)

K. Hussinger - The Market Value of Blocking Patents

N. Tsukada - Continuing Applications and Quality of Inventions

N. Zhang - Patent: Zhi or Liang? A Re-exploration on the Recent Development of Patent Quality in China

Chair:

A.3 - National Innovation Systems

Theatre 104, Level 1

Alfons Palangaraya 

S. Frankel - The Small Market Economy and Patent Law

M. de Zwart - Innovation and Copyright: Do We Need a Transformative Use Exception in Australia?

G. Tian - Financial Downturn vs Innovation Capability: The Role of Intellectual Property and Competition Laws in the Australian National Innovation Policies

K. Maani - Innovating the Innovation Process: A Systemic View of Innovation Adoption in the Australian Beef Industry

13:00-14:00

Lunch Break

Foyer, Level 1

14:00-15:30

Concurrent Sessions - B

Chair:

B.1 - Patent System Efficiency

Theatre 109, Level 1

Kimberlee  Weatherall

H. Moir - “In the National Interest”: An Assessment of Inventiveness in the Patent System

N. Erkal - Scarcity of Ideas and R&D Options: Use it, Lose it, or Bank it

A. Palangkaraya - Misclassification in Patent Office Examinations: Evidence from a Matched Sample of Applications

D. Brennan - Small Step, Super Scope: Patents for Molecules

Chair:

B.2 Company Strategy

Theatre 106, Level 1

Kwanghui Lim

M. Woerter - Risky Innovation Strategies

D. Suh - Efficiency Change and the Effect of Innovation Behaviors on the Productivity: Korean Embedded Software

A. Marco - Creative Destruction and Strategic Protection: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Patenting

P. Cebon - Boards of Directors and the Governance of Emergence Risk

Chair:

B.3 Open Innovation and National Innovation Systems

Theatre 104, Level 1

Dianne Nicol

D. Hart - The ‘Snakes and Ladders’ of Open Innovation

H. Saito - Determinants on Independent R&D and Open Innovation: Empirical Analysis Based on Questionnaire Data for Firms

H. Hatakama - What Can Substitute for the Patent System?

15:30-16:00

Afternoon Tea Break

Foyer, Level 1

16:00-17:30

Plenary Session 2 - Panel Discussion

Lecture Theatre G08

Chair:

"Should there be another round of TRIPS?"

Christine Greenhalgh

Peter Drahos, Sadao Nagaoka, Alfons Palangkaraya and Graeme Austin

19:00 - 21:30

Conference Dinner

Il Vicolo Restaurant, 50 Grattan Street CARLTON

Book Launch - Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Economic Growth by Christine Greenhalgh and Mark Rogers

Day Two - Friday 22nd January 2010

Does the Fruit Bat Come out of the Mouth of the Rainbow Serpent? Indigenous Cosmology, Traditional Knowledge and Innovation
Peter Drahos, Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet), College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University

Complementary Innovations and Patent Design
Vincenzo Denicolo, Deparment of Economics, University of Bologna

10:30 - 11:00

Morning Tea Break

11:00-12:30

Concurrent Sessions - C

Chair:

C.1 - Financing Innovation

Paul Jensen

R. Thomson - Host Country Tax Policy and R&D Financed from Abroad

D. Czarnitzki - Do Direct Subsidies for R&D Influence the Distribution of R&D?

M. Colombo - The Effect of Public Subsidies on Firms’ Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivity: Ephemeral or Persistent?

J. Nishimura - Subsidy and Networking: The Effects of Direct and Indirect Support Programs in the Cluster Policy

Chair:

C.2 - IP Infringement

Theatre 106, Level 1

David Brennan

R. Humberstone - Searching for Prior Art when Faced with Enforcement

K. Cremers - Patent Litigation in Germany: New Evidence from German Companies

N. Fukugawa - Do Pirated Video-Games Substitute for Genuine Versions? A First Report

K. Weatherall - “Evidence-Based” IP policy?

Chair:

C.3 - New Technologies

Theatre 104, Level 1

Konstantinos Karachalios

Y. Chen - Innovation of Durable Complementary Goods

M. Lloyd - Intellectual Property Strategies in Clean Technology: Insights from the Hybrid Car Sector

S. Parris - Innovation in Venture-Capital Backed Clean Technology Firms in the UK

K. Lim - Signals for Evaluating External Knowledge: A Study of How Firms Search for Knowledge Across Organizational and National Boundaries

P. Yu - The Crossover Point

W. Ng-Loy - Crossing Over: The Experience of Singapore

12:30-13:30

Lunch Break

Foyer, Level 1

13:30-15:00

Concurrent Sessions – D

Chair:

D.1 - Company Strategy

Theatre 109, Level 1

Peter Yu

O. Morgan - Awareness, Understanding and Use of Intellectual Property in New Zealand

S. Amoroso - Firm Level Productivity with Time-Varying Imperfect Competition in Output

S. Wakeman - Can Better Deal Terms Compensate for a Worse Partner? The Relationship between Resource and Governance-based Drivers of Strategic Alliance Performance

J. Walker - The Pacific Rim - Patent Considerations

Nisvan Erkal

W. Lou - Estimating the Impact of a Potential Process Innovation and the Optimal Strategy of Licensing

R. Aoki - Effect of Patent Pools on Innovation

J. Plasmans - Industry-Science Interaction in the Framework of Standardization and Normalization

S. Nagaoka - Standard-Making R&D and Standard-Using R&D: A First Look at their Characteristics Based on Inventor Survey

A. Diaz Arias - The Impact of International Technology Transfer on Technology Production in OECD Countries

P. Wong - Home-Base-Exploiting vs Home-Base-Augmenting Drivers of Foreign R&D by US Electronics and Chemicals-Related Companies: Evidence from Asian Host Economies

S. Kahn - The Impact of the Foreign Student Fulbright Program on Innovation and Knowledge Creation

K. Oh - An Empirical Study of Technology Diffusion and International Trade in Korea: Using Patent Application Data