This study was commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the JURI committee. It reviews Art 11 and Arts 14-16 of the proposed Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. It outlines criticisms that have ...
This study assesses the feasibility of a European IP prediagnosis (IPD) scheme offered to SMEs. IPD schemes have been developed in various countries as one remedy against findings that SMEs do not use the IP system properly due to resource constraints and lack of skills in strategic IP managemen...
The European Commission, DG Research and Innovation, commissioned a survey on patent licensing behaviour of European firms as part of the larger study ‘Measurement and analysis of knowledge and R&D exploitation flows, assessed by patent and licensing data’. The survey conducted by Technopolis ad...
The study provided support for an evaluation of the International Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) SME helpdesks (HDs) of the EU. The tasks were to conduct a survey of users and non-users of the HDs and to follow-up on the survey with interviews of survey participants and stakeholders. Moreove...
The following document is annex 1 to the report on a “Feasibility Study on Intellectual pre-diagnostic” service. The feasibility study itself set out to assess to what extent introducing an IP Prediagnostic service for SMEs – a structured “prediagnostic” audit of a firm´s situation in terms of I...
The report ‘Exploitation of technological results by the market’ is a synthesis/summary report developed from three different deliverables and data sources used in the scope of the study ‘Measurement and analysis of knowledge and R&D exploitation flows, assessed by patent and licensing data’. Th...
The objective of this study was to analyse the current national initiatives for the deployment of clouds in the public sector in ten Member States, to identify and describe best practice use cases and to propose pilots for those application areas where current cloud take-up is absent or however ...
