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Letter to the Editor of The Times

18th October 2018 by Ian Harvey

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”

18th June 2018 by Ian Harvey

Email to the editor of The Economist - 18th June 2018 ....Read More

Generating impact from IP: How Scientists succeed……. or fail

12th March 2018 by Ian Harvey

Presentation to the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington on Monday 12th March 2018 ....Read More

Letter to the Editor of the Economist

29th August 2015 by Ian Harvey

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

26th August 2015 by Ian Harvey

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?

11th June 2014 by Ian Harvey

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

31st July 2008 by Ian Harvey

Climate change briefing paper from 2008 ....Read More

IPRs: The Catalyst to Deliver Low Carbon Technologies

24th July 2008 by Ian Harvey

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

31st May 2007 by Ian Harvey

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

10th October 2003 by Ian Harvey

The EU's proposed rules on technology transfer represents economic self-destructiveness on a grand scale. ....Read More

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China in the Global Economy – Myth & Reality

Do Intellectual Property Rights Stimulate or Threaten Innovation?

IPR and Low-carbon Technologies

Technology and IP: Problems and Solutions

Technology in a Warming World

Myths and Legends

Intellectual Property Rights: The Catalyst to Deliver Low Carbon Technologies

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