Università Carlo Cattaneo, LIUC
July 22-23, 2005

Rodolfo Helg
Institute of Economics Director
Università Cattaneo, LIUC

• Technological Innovation and Monopolization
  F.M. Scherer, Harvard University and Havertford College

• Rivalry and technological complementarities in digital goods
  Luigi Marengo, Antonio Palestrini and Corrado Pasquali, Università di Teramo, Italy
• Patenting practices within the Upper-Rhine Biovalley network: Exclusion and cooperation rationales
  Antoine Bureth, Rachel Levy, Julien Pénin and Sandrine Wolff, Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg, France

• Open Science and University Patenting: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Italian Case
  Stefano Breschi, Università Bocconi, Francesco Lissoni Università degli Studi di Brescia and Fabio Montobbio, Università dell’Insubria, Italy
• How do firms protect their "Knowledge capital"? Advantages and limits of patents
  Blandine Laperche, Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, France

• The current discussions on collective management of rights in the EU Economic Concerns
  Maria Mercedes Frabboni, Queen Mary College, University of London. UK
• DRM and competition: consequences on cultural diversity. The case of the online music market
  Heritiana Ranaivoson and Joelle Farchy, Université Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

14:00 pm - Trade Secret

• Behavioral And Social Mechanisms that Undermine Legality in The Workplace: Examining The Efficacy of Trade-Secrets Laws Among Knowledge Workers in Silicon Valley
  Yuval Feldman, Bar-Ilan University,Israel
• Trade Secret vs. Broad Patent: The Role of Licensing Agreements
  Franco Cugno and Elisabetta Ottoz, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

• Orphan Works, Abandonware and the Missing Market for Copyrighted
  Goods
  Dennis Khong, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
• Web Technologies: Reflective Activities and Property Rights.
  Giovanni Bono, Università di Bologna, Italy
•  The economics of Information Technologies Standards and Recommandations: The financial Services Sector Case
  Eric Thivant and Bouzidi Laid, Université Jean Moulin, Lyon 3, France

• Bad for Universal but Universally Bad ? The Uneven Effects of the Current Crisis in the German Phonographic Industry
  Christian Handke, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany
• Network Externalities, File Sharing and Digital Music Piracy
  Antonella Ardizzone, IULM, Italy
• Intellectual Property Rights and Technological Evolution in Entertainment and Mass Media Markets
  Franco Amisano, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy

• Efficiency of Online Dispute Resolution: A case Study
  Bruno Deffains and Yannick Gabuthy, Université de Nancy 2, France
• Intellectual Property Rights and Judicial Decision Making. An Economic Analysis of Judicial Governance and Precedent
  Sophie Harnay and Alain Marciano, Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne, France

• Increasing Intellectual Property Rights Protection: which countries do better?
  Carolina Pagliacci Banco Central de Venezuela and Stefania Scandizzo, Corporación Andina de Fomento, Caracas, Venezuela
• Law and Economics of Bilateral Investment Treaties regulating Intellectual Property Rights: Challenge for Developing Countries?
  Rosa Castro Bernieri, Hamburg University- Università di Bologna

• How To Build A Commons:Is Intellectual Property Constrictive, Facilitating or Irrelevant?
  Shubha Ghosh, State University of New York at Buffalo, US
• Information, knowledge economics and intellectual property rights: the emergence of new institutional forms
  Alain Herscovici, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil

11:30 am - A Behavioral Perpsective on Copyright Infringement

• Is Software Piracy a Middle Class Crime?
  JustinaFischer, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and Antonio Rodríguez Andres, University of Southern Denmark
• Intellectual Property Rights or Liability Rules: How Do We Tackle Copyright Infringement in the Music Market? Insights from Experimental Data
  Shubha Ghosh, State University of New York, US, Anna Maffioletti, Università degli Studi di Torino and Giovanni Ramello, Università Carlo Cattaneo, LIUC, Italy