Insights
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Why It’s Time to Mind Europe’s Services Gap
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, President Trump told Europe it was “not heading in the right direction”. The line was classic Trump: light on evidence, heavy on...
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Europe’s Innovation Gap: Five Charts and Five Takeaways for an Evidence-Based Debate
Rivers of ink have been spilled in recent years on Europe’s stagnating innovation performance and declining competitiveness. The Draghi report is the most prominent among many studies examining the...
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Spain, at Your Service
This blog post is based on an article published in El País on the 5th of October 2025. The original article can be found here. In her latest State of the Union address, European Commission...
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Webinar Summary: National Security, Innovation and Telecoms – A New Era
Our webinar, hosted on December 4, titled "National Security, Innovation and Telecoms – A New Era," brought together experts to discuss the intersection of innovation policy, intellectual property...
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Sweden vs Switzerland: A Heavyweight Champions Fight on Innovation
Much like with other headline-making international rankings, the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has recently drawn media attention with the release of the 2024 edition of its...
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Don’t Panic! It’s Just FRAND Licensing Practices
A breakthrough in calculating a 'fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory' (FRAND) royalty rate for wireless patents came in the year 2198. After centuries of debate and litigation, the supercomputer...
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What Do We Know and What Don’t We Know About the Consequences of the Revised Product Liability Directive?
The new Product Liability Directive, proposed by the European Commission in 2022, is now on its final stretch: it’s now in the trialogue and a final agreement between the EU institutions may be...
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Reforming Standard Essential Patents: What do the Expert Bodies Say?
The European Commission’s proposal to reform Standard Essential Patents (SEPs), which have been covered in several blogs by ECIPE scholars, has caused a lot of surprise in the expert community. One...
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The EU Impact Assessment of Standard Essential Patents Reform: Nice Try But Please Try Again!
The EU process to reform its policy on Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) should have been much better. When the proposal was unveiled in April this year, many observers and experts were surprised –...
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The Economic Value of Standard Essential Patents and the Costs of the Commission’s SEPs proposal
The European Commission’s proposal to reform Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) puts SEP holders against SEP implementers. The logic is simple: since the economic contribution of implementers is...