A letter to the Editor of The Times in response to an article on 15th October 2018 by Mariana Mazzucato 'The NHS is being impeded by greedy drug companies'. ....Read More
Into the Danger Zone – the Impact of “Alice”
Email to the editor of The Economist - 18th June 2018 ....Read More
Generating impact from IP: How Scientists succeed……. or fail
Presentation to the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington on Monday 12th March 2018 ....Read More
Letter to the Editor of the Economist
A letter to the editor of The Economist in response to its leader entitled 'A Question of Utility' published on 8th August 2015 ....Read More
IP Strategy from a business perspective
Presentation given at the Global Forum on Intellectual Property (GFIP) in Singapore on 26th August 2015 ....Read More
Do Intellectual Property Rights Stimulate or Threaten Innovation?
The Chinese are often derided for counterfeiting everything in sight, but the reality is very different. As I write this in Beijing, I’m leafing through a Chinese comic book designed to teach seven-year olds about intellectual property. In today’s China, most children are taught the importance of IP and how it works as soon as they enter primary school. Since the early 1980s, the Chinese government has been intent on creating an economy in which IP plays a fundamental role. As former Premier Wen Jiabao often said, “competition in the future is competition in IP”. ....Read More
Intellectual Property Rights: The Catalyst to Deliver Low Carbon Technologies
Climate change briefing paper from 2008 ....Read More
IPRs: The Catalyst to Deliver Low Carbon Technologies
This paper is based on an IPR Annex prepared for Tony Blair’s Climate Change Initiative and the Climate Change Group. ....Read More
Creativity Destruction
It is frequently many small problems that together cause an aircraft to crash. So it is with innovation and intellectual property (IP) in Europe. We are witnessing, in slow motion, an innovation crash that is likely to hasten Europe’s technological irrelevance. ....Read More
A License to Kill Europe’s Tech Sector
The EU's proposed rules on technology transfer represents economic self-destructiveness on a grand scale. ....Read More