ECIPE Webinar: National Security, Innovation and Telecoms – A New Era
Join us for an online discussion on EU and US telecommunication policies, Europe's market struggles, and new Transatlantic efforts needed to foster innovation.
It’s been a central plank in EU and US policies over the years to promote fast innovation and open markets in telecommunication. Now these policies have also geopolitical significance, with advanced telecommunication being central for modern warfare and growing concerns that competition from China erodes security structures and capabilities. In parallel, the market for telecommunication technology developers in Europe have been poor – weighed down by low demand for 5G equipment and new regulatory efforts that have sought to push down the margins of developers. It’s clear that new Transatlantic efforts are needed, but what direction should they take? What are the conditions needed for telecommunication development and innovation in America and Europe to flourish?
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Jonathan Barnett is the Torrey H Webb Professor of Law at the USC Gould School of Law, and his research is focused on antitrust, intellectual property and corporate law. He is the author of many studies and books, including The Big Steal: Ideology, Interest and the Undoing of Intellectual Property, which just has been published by Oxford University Press. He is also the co-editor of 5G and Beyond: Intellectual Property and Competition Policy in the Internet of Things (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
Andrei Iancu is a former Director of the US Patent and Trademark Office and Undersecretary of Commerce for intellectual property. He is the author of several articles on international patent law and innovation, and has taught at US universities, including the UCLA School of Law. He is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and a Partner at Sullivan & Cromwell.
Fredrik Erixon is the Director of ECIPE and the author of several studies on intellectual property policy in Europe. His work focuses on technological change and innovation, and
how regulation impact on the speed and direction of new development. He is the author of The Innovation Illusion (Yale University Press) and has recently published books and studies on the geoeconomics of technology and Europe’s drive to reform Standard Essential Patents.
Session moderated by Matthias Bauer, Director of ECIPE.
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