Rudi Bekkers
Conference papers, proceedings
Byeongwoo Kang, Rudi Bekkers: (2023). The Determinants of Parallel Invention: Measuring the Role of Information Sharing and Personal Interaction between Inventors. Paper at the 18th Annual Conference of European Policy for Intellectual Property Association (EPIP), Sep 11-13. Kraków, Poland.
Benjamin Buettner, Emilio Raiteri, Rudi Bekkers (2023). Patent Disclosure and Migration: Unraveling the Role of Examiners in Signaling Talent and Knowledge Transfer. Paper at the 18th Annual Conference of European Policy for Intellectual Property Association (EPIP), Sep 11-13. Kraków, Poland.
Julia Mazzei, Rudi Bekkers, Arianna Martinel (2023). From open warfare to strawman’s anonymity: Motives and strategies behind patent opposition at EPO. Paper at the 18th Annual Conference of European Policy for Intellectual Property Association (EPIP), Sep 11-13. Kraków, Poland.
Filippo Grillo, Geerten van de Kaa, Henk J. de Vries, Ruid Bekkers (2023). Coordination through standards and platforms: the mechanisms behind network effects and value – Proposal for research. Paper at the 27th EURAS Annual Standardisation Conference / 12th International Conference on Standardisation and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT), 28 – 30 June 2023 Aachen, Germany
Byeongwoo Kang, Rudi Bekkers: (2023). The Determinants of Parallel Invention: Measuring the Role of Information Sharing and Personal Interaction between Inventors. DRUID23, Lisbon, June 10-12.
Arianna Martinelli, Julia Mazzei, Rudi Bekkers (2023) From Open Warfare to Strawman’s Anonymity: Motives and Strategies Behind Patent Opposition at EPO. DRUID23, Lisbon, June 10-12. DRUID23, Lisbon, June 10-12.
Julia Mazzei, Rudi Bekkers, Arianna Martinelli (2022). From Open Warfare to Strawman’s Anonymity: Motives and Strategies Behind Patent Opposition at EPO. Ninth ZEW/MaCCI Conference on the Economics of Innovation and Patenting (INNOPAT22), Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany, 3-4 November 2022.
Byeongwoo Kang, Rudi Bekkers (2022). The Determinants of Parallel Invention: Measuring the Role of Information Sharing and Personal Interaction Between Inventors. Ninth ZEW/MaCCI Conference on the Economics of Innovation and Patenting (INNOPAT22), Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany, 3-4 November 2022.
Emilio Raiteri, Carlo Bottai and Rudi Bekkers (2022). Government-sponsored research and technical standards: Evidence from standard-essential patents. Paper accepted at EPIP2022 conference, Laboratory and the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL), University of Cambridge, 14-16 September 2022.
Raiteri, E., Bekkers, R., Bottai, C. (2022). Government-sponsored research and technical standards: Evidence from standard-essential patents. EPO Academic Research Programma Annual ARP workshop 2022. April 5-6, 2022.
Rudi Bekkers, Elena M. Tur, Joachim Henkel, Tommy van der Vorst, Menno Driesse, Jorge L. Contreras (2021). Overcoming inefficiencies of patent licensing: A method to assess patent’s essentiality for technical standards. Paper accepted at the DRUID21 conference, Copenhagen Business School (CBS), October 18-20, 2021.
Rudi Bekkers, Elena M. Tur, Joachim Henkel, Tommy van der Vorst, Menno Driesse, Jorge L. Contreras (2021). Overcoming inefficiencies of patent licensing: A method to assess patent’s essentiality for technical standards. Paper presented at the EPIP2021 conference, Institute of Public Goods and Policies (CSIC-IPP), Madrid, October 18-20, 2021.
Grillo, F., Yousefi, A., Wiegmann, P. M., van de Kaa, G., de Vries, H. J. & Bekkers, R. N. A., (2021). Standards and Standardization: An Interdisciplinary Literature Review. Joint Proceedings of the 25th EURAS Annual Standardisation Conference – Standardisation and Innovation & 11th International Conference on Standardisation and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT) – The Past, Present and FUTURE of ICT Standardisation. Jakobs, K. (ed.). Aachen: Verlag Mainz, p. 227-245.
Bekkers, R. N. A., Tur, E. M., van der Vorst, T., Driesse, M. & Jorge, C., (2021). Overcoming inefficiencies of patent licensing: A method to assess patent’s essentiality for technical standards Joint Proceedings of the 25th EURAS Annual Standardisation Conference – Standardisation and Innovation & 11th International Conference on Standardisation and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT) – The Past, Present and FUTURE of ICT Standardisation. Jacobs, K. (ed.). EURAS contributions to standardisation research ed. Mainz Academic Publishers, Vol. 16. p. 27-46.
Mart van der Kam, Roland Ferweda, Rudi N.A. Bekkers (2020). Developing roaming protocols for EV charging: Insights from the field. Proceedings of the 8th Transport Research Arena TRA 2020. - Helsinki, Finland, 27 to 30 April 2020.
Elena M Tur, Emilio Raiteri, Rudi Bekkers (2019). Is patent assignment to examiners truly a random process? Evidence from standard-essential patents at the USPTO. Paper presented at European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary Economics 2019 (EMAEE), June 3-5, 2019. SPRU: Brighton, UK.
Gaétan de Rassenfosse, Emilio Raiteri, Rudi Bekkers (2017). Discrimination against foreigners in the patent system: Evidence from standard-essential patents, 2017 Conference on IP Statistics for Decision Makers (IPSDM), 14-15 November 2017, Mexico City.
Gaétan de Rassenfosse, Emilio Raiteri, Rudi Bekkers (2017). Discrimination against foreigners in the patent system: Evidence from standard-essential patents, 44th Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE 2017). August 31 to September 2, 2017, Maastricht, Netherlands.
Gaétan de Rassenfosse, Emilio Raiteri, Rudi Bekkers (2017). Discrimination against foreigners in the patent system: Evidence from standard-essential patents, European Policy for Intellectual Property conference (EPIP17), September 4-6, 2017, Bordeaux, France.
Gaétan de Rassenfosse, Emilio Raiteri, Rudi Bekkers (2017). Discrimination against foreigners in the patent system: Evidence from standard-essential patents, DRUID17, June 12 - 14, 2017, New York.
P.G.J. Persoon, F. Alkemade, R.N.A. Bekkers (2017). The science base of Cleantech. Paper presented at the European Forum for Studies of Policies for Research and Innovation (EventEu-SPRI), Vienna, Austria, 7 - 9 June 2017.
Rudi Bekkers, Arianna Martinelli, Federico Tamagni (2017). The causal effect of including standards-related documentation into prior art: evidence from a recent EPO policy change. 10th European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary Economics (EMAEE 2017), 31 May – 2 June, 2017, Strasbourg.
Gaétan de Rassenfosse, Emilio Raiteri, Rudi Bekkers (2017). Discrimination against foreigners in the patent system: Evidence from standard-essential patents, 10th European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary Economics (EMAEE 2017), 31 May – 2 June, 2017, Strasbourg.
Gaétan de Rassenfosse, Emilio Raiteri, Rudi Bekkers (2017). Discrimination against foreigners in the patent system: Evidence from standard-essential patents. 7th ZEW/MaCCI Conference on the Economics of Innovation and Patenting, 15 – 16 May 2017, Mannheim, Germany
Rudi Bekkers, Arianna Martinelli, Federico Tamagni (2016). The causal effect of including standards-related documentation into prior art: evidence from a recent EPO policy change. Presentation at European Economic Association 31th annual congress of the European Economic Association and the 69th European meeting of the Econometric Society, (program), Geneva, 22 August 2016.
Rudi Bekkers, Arianna Martinelli, Federico Tamagni (2016). The causal effect of including standards-related documentation into prior art: evidence from a recent EPO policy change. Presentation at 16th Congress of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society, Montreal, 6-8 July 2016.
Rudi Bekkers, Arianna Martinelli, Federico Tamagni (2016). The causal effect of including standards-related documentation into prior art: evidence from a recent EPO policy change. Presentation at DRUID16 20th Anniversary Conference, Copenhagen, June 13-15, 2016.
Rudi Bekkers, Christian Catalini, Arianna Martinelli, Cesare Righi, and Timothy Simcoe (2016). “Declared Essential Patents”. The US patent system in an international perspective: A Conference of the Hoover IP2 Working Group .Stanford University, January 11–12, 2016.
Rudi Bekkers, Arianna Martinelli, Federico Tamagni (2015). The causal effect of including standards-related documentation into prior art: evidence from a recent EPO policy change. Paper accepted at the 2015 Conference on IP Statistics for Decision Makers (IPSDM), to be held in Vienna, on 3-4 November 2015.
Rudi Bekkers, Arianna Martinelli, Federico Tamagni (2015). The causal effect of including standards-related documentation into prior art: evidence from a recent EPO policy change. Presentation at the IEEE 9th International Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology (IEEE SIIT 2015), 6 - 8 October 2015, Sunnyvale, California.
Rudi Bekkers , Arianna Martinelli, Federico Tamagni (2015). The causal effect of including standards-related documentation into prior art: evidence from a recent EPO policy change. Paper for the European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) annual conference, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 2-3 September 2015
Negin Salimi, Rudi Bekkers and Koen Frenken (2014). Does working with industry come at a price? A study of doctoral candidates’ performance in collaborative vs. non-collaborative PhD projects. Paper at the 15th conference of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society (ISS) in Jena, Germany, 27 – 30 July 2014.
Byeongwoo Kang and Rudi Bekkers (2013). Just-in-time inventions and the development of standards: How firms use opportunistic strategies to obtain standard-essential patents (SEPs). Paper at the IEEE SIIT13: 8th International Conference on Standardisation and Innovation in Information Technology, September 24-26 2013, Sofia Antipolis, France.
Simon den Uijl, Rudi Bekkers, Henk J. de Vries. Managing Intellectual Property using Patent Pools. Academy of Management, Augustus 9-13 2013, Orlando, Florida.
Byeongwoo Kang and Rudi Bekkers (2013). Just-in-time inventions and the development of standards: How firms use opportunistic strategies to obtain standard-essential patents (SEPs). 35th DRUID Celebration Conference 2013, Barcelona, June 17-19.
Byeongwoo Kang and Rudi Bekkers (2013). Just-in-time inventions and the development of standards: How firms use opportunistic strategies to obtain standard-essential patents (SEPs). EMAEE 2013: 8th European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary Economics, 10-12 June 2013, Sophia-Antipolis.
Kang, B., & Bekkers, R. (2013). Just-in-time inventions and the development of standards: How firms use opportunistic strategies to obtain standard-essential patents (SEPs). In K. Jacobs, H. de Vries, A. Ganesh, A. Gulacsi, & I. N. Soetert (Eds.), EURAS Proceedings 2013 - Standards: Boosting European Competitiveness (pp. 231-247). Aachen, Germany: Mainz Wissenschaftsverlag.
Rudi Bekkers and Arianna Martinelli. Covering it up? Determinants of blanket declarations of essential patents in standard-setting organizations.Paper accepted at the EMAEE 2013: 8th European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary Economics, 10-12 June 2013, Sophia-Antipolis, France.
Byeongwoo Kang and Rudi Bekkers (2013). Just-in-time inventions and the development of standards: How firms use opportunistic strategies to obtain standard-essential patents (SEPs). 5th ZEW/MaCCI Conference on the Economics of Innovation and Patenting, Mannheim, June 3-4, 2013.
Bram Timmermans, Rudi Bekkers, Luca Bordoli (2012). Rock ‘n Roller Coaster: An Explorative Study on the Evolution of the European Steel Roller Coaster Industry. Paper accepted at 14th International Schumpeter Society Conference, Brisbane, Australia, July 2-5.
Bram Timmermans, Rudi Bekkers, Luca Bordoli (2012). Rock ‘n Roller Coaster: An Explorative Study on the Evolution of the European Steel Roller Coaster Industry. Paper at the DRUID 2012 Summer Conference, Copenhagen, Copenhagen Business School, June 19-21, 2012.
Bekkers, R., Catalini, C., Martinelli, A., & Simcoe, T. Intellectual Property Disclosure in Standards Development. Paper at the NBER conference on Standards, Patents & Innovation, Tucson (AZ), January 20 and 21, 2012.
Bekkers, R., Catalini, C., Martinelli, A., & Simcoe, T. (2011). Showcase: A Database for Standards and Patents. Proceedings of the 7th international conference on standardisation and innovation in information technology (SIIT2001). 28-30 Sept, Berlin, Germany.
Rudi Bekkers, Isabel Maria Bodas Freitas (2011). The Performance of University-Industry Collaborations: Empirical evidence from the Netherlands. DRUID 2011 Summer Conference, Copenhagen, Copenhagen Business School, June 15-17, 2011.
Rudi Bekkers, Isabel Maria Bodas Freitas (2011). Catalysts and barriers - Factors that affect the performance of university-industry collaborations. 4th ZEW Conference on Economics of Innovation and Patenting. Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) Mannheim, May 19-20, 2011.
Rudi Bekkers, Arianna Martinelli (2011). Standardizing Intellectual Property Disclosure Data. Standards, Patents & Innovation Pre-Conference. May 7th, 2010. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
Bekkers, Rudi & Martinelli, Arianna (2011). The interplay between standardization and technological change. Paper accepted at the DIME Final Conference, 6-8 April 2011,UNU-MERIT & School of Economics and Business, Maastricht University.
Bekkers, Rudi & Martinelli, Arianna (2011). Knowledge positions in high tech markets: trajectories, strategies, standards and true innovators. Paper presented at the 7th European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary Economics (EMAEE 7), Pisa, 14-16 February, 2011.
Africa Villanueva-Felez, Alejandro Escriba-Esteve & Rudi Bekkers (2010). Characterising Triple Helix linkages: Analysis of the flow of resources and the strength of link. Paper accepted at the VIII Triple Helix Conference, Madrid, 20th - 22nd October, 2010.
Bekkers, R., & Martinelli, A. (2010). The interplay between standardization and technological change: A study on wireless technologies, technological trajectories, and essential patent claims. Paper presented at the Schumpeter Conference 2010, Aalborg, Denmark, June 21-24.
Bekkers, R., & Martinelli, A. (2010). The interplay between standardization and technological change: A study on wireless technologies, technological trajectories, and essential patent claims. Paper presented at the DRUID Summer Conference 2010, London, June 15-18.
Rudi Bekkers, Isabel Maria Bodas Freitas (2010). Catalysts and barriers: Factors that affect the performance of university-industry collaborations. Paper presented at the Schumpeter Conference 2010, Aalborg, Denmark, June 21-24.
Rudi Bekkers, René Bongard & Alessandro Nuvolari (2009). Essential patents in industry standards: The case of UMTS. Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT 2009), 8-10 Sept. 2009, Tokyo, Japan. IEIC Communications Society, ISBN 978-4-88552-240-6. p. 22-36.
Africa Villanueva-Felez; Rudi Bekkers; Jordi Molas-Gallart (2009). Relaciones universidad-industria: estudio de la diversidad en la utilización de canales transferencia de conocimiento. Paper accepted at the Xiii Seminario de gestión tecnológica de la Asociación Latino-iberoamericana de gestión Tecnológica – ALTEC 2009. 25-27 November, Cartagena de Indias, Columbia.
Marianne van der Steen, Rudi Bekkers and Isabelle Bodas Freitas (2009). Diversity in Technology Transfer Policies and practices? Empirical evidence form the Netherlands. Paper presented at the 2009 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 7-11, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois.
Africa Villanueva-Felez; Rudi Bekkers; Jordi Molas-Gallart (2009). Diversity in knowledge transfer usage: A relational approach. Paper presented at the Triple Helix VII International Conference, 17-19 June 2009: Glasgow: Scotland.
Isabel Maria Bodas de Araújo Freitas, Rudi Bekkers (2009). Performance of University-Industry collaborations, qualitative and quantitative evidence from the Netherlands. Paper presented at the Triple Helix VII International Conference, 17-19 June 2009: Glasgow : Scotland.
Rudi Bekkers, René Bongard & Alessandro Nuvolari (2009. Essential patents in industry standards: The case of UMTS. Paper presented at the DRUID 2009 Summer conference, 17-19 June 2009, Copenhagen.
Rudi Bekkers, DongBack Seo (2008). Analysis of the changing tensions in standard-development organization. Paper presented at the 4S/EASST conference in Rotterdam, August 20-23 2008.
Rudi Bekkers, Joel West (2008). IPR Standardization Policies and Strategic Patenting in UMTS. Paper presented at the 25th DRUID Celebration Conference, Copenhagen June 17-20, 2008.
Iversen, E., Bekkers, R., & Blind, K. (2008). Emerging coordination mechanisms for multi-party IPR holders: linking research with standardization. Poster presentation at the DIME - DRUID Fundamental on Open and Proprietary Innovation Regimes. Copenhagen, CBS, June 17, 2008.
Rudi Bekkers, DonBack Seo (2008). Importance and Comparison of Standard Development Organizations in the ubiquitous society. Paper presented at the Korea Society of Management Information Systems (KMIS) Conference on Information Systems on June 13th, 2008 in Seoul, Korea..
Isabel Maria Bodas de Araújo Freitas, Rudi Bekkers (2008). Exploring patterns of knowledge transfer from university to industry: Do sectors matter? Invited talk at the workshop on University-Industry linkages in the Netherlands: Research Issues and Policy Challenges. Eindhoven, 16 April 2008.
Marianne van der Steen, Rudi Bekkers, Isabel Bodas Freitas, Victor Gilsing (2008). Beyond the Demand-Side Perspective of Technology Transfer Policies: An Empirical Analysis of the Netherlands. Presentation at the DIME Grand Conference "Knowledge in space and time: economic and policy implications of the Knowledge-based economy", University Louis Pasteur Strasbourg, April 7-9, 2008.
Eric J. Iversen, Rudi Bekkers and Knut Blind (2007). Emerging coordination mechanisms for multi-party IPR holders: Linking Research with Standardization. EURAS Workshop on Standards and Conflict Resolution. October 26, 2007, Technical University of Dresden.
Rudi Bekkers, Joel West (2007). Managing Patents in Standardization: Lessons from ETSI's Handling of UMTS. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT), 17-19 October 2007, Calgary (Canada). University of Calgary.
Isabel Maria Bodas de Araújo Freitas, Rudi Bekkers (2007). Exploring patterns of knowledge transfer from university to industry: Do sectors matter? DRUID Summer Conference 2007 on appropriability, proximity, routines and innovation, June 18 - 20, 2007, Copenhagen.
Isabel Maria Bodas de Araújo Freitas, Rudi Bekkers (2007). Exploring patterns of knowledge transfer from university to industry: Do sectors matter? DIME Conference on: Knowledge Based Entrepreneurship, June 4-5, 2007, Milan.
Isabel Maria Bodas de Araújo Freitas, Rudi Bekkers (2007). Exploring patterns of knowledge transfer from university to industry: Do sectors matter? Proceedings of Triple Helix VI, 16-18 May 2007, School of Engineering, National University of Singapore.
Reginald Brennenraedts, Rudi Bekkers & Bart Verspagen (2006). The different channels of university-industry knowledge transfer: Empirical evidence from Biomedical Engineering. Paper presented at the DIME workshop on Technology transfer from universities: A critical appraisal of patents, spin-offs and human mobility, September 29th/30th, 2006 - EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Bekkers, R. & West, J. (2006). The effect of strategic patenting on cumulative innovation in UMTS standardization. In Coenen et al (eds), EURAS proceedings of the Workshop on Standardization on 8-9 June, Hamburg. Aachen, Germany: Wissenschaftsverlag Mainz. pp 17-39.
Eric Iversen, Rudi Bekkers & Knut Blind (2006). Emerging coordination mechanisms for multi-party IPR holders: linking research with standardization. Paper presented at the DIME Conference on Intellectual Property Rights for Business and Society, September 14-15 2006, London.
Rudi Bekkers, Eric Iverson & Knut Blind (2006). Patent pools and standardization: coordination mechanisms for multi-party IPR holders. Paper for the EASST 2006 conference, Lausanne, August 23-26th.
Rudi Bekkers & Joel West (2006). The Effect of Strategic Patenting on Cumulative Innovation in UMTS Standardization. (DIME working paper no. 9. Paper presented at the DIME Workshop on Rules, norms and standards, March 4th, 2006.
Bekkers, R. (2004). Patent pools as a possible route to reduce barriers to standards diffusion and technology transfer: A cure for a tragedy of the anticommons? Conference Conjointe de la 4S et d'EASST, Paris, 25-28 August 2004.
R. Bekkers, V. Gilsing and M. van der Steen (2004). Technology transfer through IP-based spin-offs. CIP Symposium 2004, Centre for Intellectual Property Rights, Chalmers University / Götenborg University, Sweden, May 31 – June 3, 2004.
Below is an overview of conference papers, proceedings, and invited talks. Most of them can be downloaded.
Invited talks and presentations and roles
10 Feb. 2023. Invited talk at 50th meeting of the DIN-Präsidialausschusses FOCUS.ICT (Presidential Committee of DIN, the German national standards institute), on Education on Standards. Berlin: Germany.
Delivered speech at the Winter Innovation Conference 2023 of the European University Institute (EUO), 27 January 2023, Florence, Italy.
Invited to deliver a speech at the UNU-MERIT seminar series, Maastricht University, 24 November 2022, Maastricht, Netherlands.
Invited to serve as discussant of the keynote speech at the workshop The historical evolution of ETSI: Legitimacy strategies and dynamics. TILT/TILEC, Tilburg University, 23 November 2022.tilt tilec etsi
Delivered an invited speech “Using government procurement for interoperability: Lessons from Forum Standaardisatie in the Netherlands” at the TPRI Interoperability Workshop, Technology & Policy Research Initiative, Boston University, 1 November 2022.
Delivered an invited speech at the event “Forming the Next Generation of ICT Standards People: A Day of Teaching Standardization”, European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), 6 October 2022, Sofia Antipolis, France.
Delivered an invited speech “Understanding adoption of technical standards” to the Forum Standaardisatie, 28 September 2022, The Hague.
29 June 2022: delivered an invited speech “A response to the new EC communication on standardisation COM(2022)” at the seminar “Standardization: Access, Expertise, and Good Governance” at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society. (Organized at the occasion of the valedictory address of Prof. Kees Stuurman).
Invited to deliver a speech at Platform Internetstandaarden, 9 December 2021.
Invited to deliver a speech at the 4th edition of the Paris conference on Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) and FRAND of the Licensing Executive Society (LES), the world’s largest professional association for IP and licensing professionals, Paris, on 14-12-2021
Delivered a presentation at the Research Roundtable: “Mechanisms, Governance, and Policy Impact of SEP Determination Approaches” (Part 1) organized by Northwestern Center on Law, Business and Economics (Chicago) and IPlytics (Berlin), 7 December 2021.
17 November 2021: Delivered an invited speech at a meeting of Fair Standards Alliance (FSA), Brussels.
On 8 March 2021, I provided an invited talk at ETSI IPR Special Committee, Sofia Antipolis, France.
On 4 November 2021, I participated as speaker in #WOIConversations Episode 3: Ownership in Open Innovation. Should be soon on their YouTube channel.
20 May 2020: Invited speaker at the DVB IPRM meeting.
24 February 2021: Served as one of the speakers on the European Commission webinar “Transparency in SEP licensing - How to clarify possible exposure upfront?”. Over 400 external guests have registered for this event.
16 December 2020: Delivered an invited speech to the IP Owners Association, which has many of the world’s larges patent owners among its members.
On December 2, 2020, I presented they keynote talk at the official launch event for the Essentiality Study we carried out for the European Commission. Over 250 participants joined this presentation.
On 26 November 2020, I delivered a talk at the Masterclass FRAND 2020 for the Centrum Permanente Educatie. This event was aimed at aimed at an audience of IP lawyers, legal council, and patent attorneys.
Invited presentation at the ETSI IPR Special Committee meeting #34, with over 50 delegates present. Teleconference meeting, 16 September 2020.
Panel member presentation at the 11th. SIIT2020 conference. 3 September 2020.
Invited presentation at the EV Roaming EU Webinar (Grande Finale evRoaming4EU & Kick-off EVRoaming Foundation & Community). At the lifestream, more than 200 people attended this presentation. Teleconference meeting 18 May 2020.
Invited presentation at the Second Annual Empirical Research Conference on Standardization, May 2020, Northwestern University, Chicago. (Postponed for Autumn 2020)
Invited presentation at the First Annual Empirical Research Conference on Standardization, May 23 - 24, 2019, Northwestern University, Chicago.
Visiting lecturer at the EuroTech doctoral course Economics of Innovation and Technological Change (EITC) at Technische Universität München, 21-28 May 2019.
Invited talk at the TILEC workshop Patent Pools 2.0: Modernizing collective licensing mechanisms in the IoT context, Brussels, 26 April 2019.
Invited talk on 23 January 2019 addressing the European Parliament during a public hearing on patents and standards. Present were the members of the European Parliament, but also by top-level representatives of the EC (including the Head of Unit, Industrial Property and the Fight against Counterfeiting - DG GROW), top-level representatives of the European Patent Office, as well as market players, political journalists, and observers.
Member and president of committee for the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) of Ludmila Striukova, University of Strasbourg, October 6, 2018.
Invited presentation on education in standards at TU/e at the event Boosting ICT Business and Innovation: A Comprehensive Approach to Standardization Education in Europe event at ETSI, France, October 5, 2018.
Invited expert to the EC workshop 'Interaction between open source software and FRAND licensing in standardisation”, Brussels, 18 September 2018.
Invited member of the panel Standard-essential patents: Governance and anti-trust policy in Europe, Japan, and the US at the EIPI2018 conference.
Invited presentation at the Sixth Annual Research Roundtable on Standard Setting Organizations and Patents, May 17-18, 2018, Northwestern University, Chicago.
Invited speaker at the high-level roundtable event on the recent EC “Setting out the EU approach to Standard Essential Patents” COM(2017) 712 in Brussels, 21 March 2018.
Invited by the EPO to talk at the PATSTAT user day 2017 on the linking of the dSEP database and PATSTAT, on Monday 13 November 2017, Mexico City.
Invited participant to the High-level roundtable Effective IP strategies for the Cloud-driven Digital Transformation, Brussels, 27 September 2017.
Invited teacher at the 1st European Summer School on Standards and the Law, 16 to 26 July 2017, Tilburg University,
Invited speaker at DRUID Professional Development Workshops (PDW) on the benefits and challenges of digitalization in research and practice at the DRUID17 conference, June 12 - 14, 2017, New York.
Invited teacher at Eurotech PhD school on Economics of Innovation and Technological Change, 22-28 May 2017, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Invited presentation at the "The future of open and collaborative standard setting" jointly organized by the Liège Competition and Innovation Institute (LCII) and the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), Brussels on 29-30 May 2017.
Invited panelist at the 10th Annual Standards, Patents & Competition: Law & Litigation, 5 December 2016, London.
Invited presentation on university industry relations at the CIP Forum conference, 22 September 2016, in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Invited presentation on the Governance of Standardisation at the TILEC Workshop on SSOs, 14 June, 2016, Tilburg University.
Invited presentation at the Workshop on Injunctions in Patent Law, Faculty of Law and Administration, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan, Poland), 2-3 June, 2016.
Lead discussant at the IEEE-SA Board of Governors Forum Roundtable on the Role of Technology Standards in Trade Policy. Vienna, 3 February 2016.
Discussant at the conference on “Competition, Standardization, and Innovation” organized by the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), 10-11 December 2015. On this event, I was part of the same plenary session as Nobel price winner Jean Tirole.
Invited speaker and session moderator at the Fourth “China Competition Policy Forum” and the International Symposium on Intellectual Property and Antitrust organized by the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) on Antitrust Law and Intellectual Property Rights, Beijing, October 22-23 2015.
Invited lecture at the EuroTech doctoral course “Economics of Innovation and Technological Change” in Lausanne, Swiss, second half of May 2015.
Invited talk at the European Patent Office / Bocconi University workshop on IP management case studies in Milan, Italy, 5 May 2015..
Key note speech together with Kai Jacobs at the Net Futures 2015 conference of the European Commission, session on ‘Radio Access and Spectrum - FP7 Future Networks Cluster’). March 25-26, 2015 Brussels.
Invited talk at the Dutch ETSI member organisation NELO at the Ministry of Economic Affairs in The Hague, March 13, 2015.
Invited talk at the Advisory council for science, technology and innovation (AWTI, formerly known as AWT) on collaboration between universities and industry, on November 6th, 2014.
Invited lecture at the seminar IP & Open Innovatie: Paradox of Synergie? by the Product Development & Management Association - Netherlands (PDMA.NL), June 19, 2014.iir forum
Invited lecture at the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO), research arm of the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), June 13, 2014.
Invited lecture at the Hitotsubashi IIR Innovation Forum, June 3, 2014.
Invited talk at the LUISS Università Guido Carli in Rome at the Intellectual Property Workshop (organized in collaboration with California Management Review) on 10 December, 2013.
Invited talk at “Kenniswerkplaats: de wetenschap achter valorisatie” on 26 November 2013 in Utrecht, organised by Instituut Maatschappelijke Innovatie (IMI).
Invited talk at the IIIrd ICT Conference Munich (ICTCM) by the Institute for Strategy, Technology and Organization (ISTO) of the Ludwig Maximilians-universität München, 14 – 16 October 2013, Munich.
Keynote speech and panel discussion member at the ITU Global Symposium for Regulators 2013, July 3-5 2013, Warsaw, Poland.
Invited talk at the IEEE SA Standards Board, 11 June 2013, Brussels.
Keynote speech at the Patent Roundtable of the International Telecommunications Union, October 10, 2012.
Presentation at the Symposium on the Management of Patents in Standards at the National Academies of Science, October 3-4 2012, Washington DC.
Invited talk at Télécom école de Management, school of Institut Mines-Télécom, Paris, September 2012.
Invited talk at the Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo at the Fourth International Workshop on Evolution of Technology and Standards, April 11-12 2012
Invited talk at ESDES Ecole du Management (Lyon) on the workshop « Regards croisés sur les méthodes d’évaluation des brevets », 20 January, 2011.
Presentation of the preliminary results of the EU study ‘Study on the Interplay between Standards and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)’, 23 November 2010. Presentation is available here.
Invited talk at the ERNESTAS GALVANAUSKAS’ international Scientific Conference, 18-19 November 2010, Šiauliai, Lithuania.
Invited lecture for the Nederlandse Mededingingsauthoriteit (NMa; Dutch competition authority). 12 October 2010.
Invited talk for the EC - ERAC Working Group on Knowledge Transfer (formerly known as CREST) - a grouping of knowledge transfer government representatives from EU member states, Brussels, 21 September 2010
Invited talk at School of Economics and Business, Maastricht University, 29 September 2010.
Invited talk for the General Assembly of ETSI members in Cannes, France on November 24th, 2009.
Invited talk on Net Neutrality to the Secretary of State Frank Heemskerk, the DGET DG Mark Frequin, MP Martijn van Dam, and 80 other guests. November 5th, 2009.
Invited talk at the OECD meeting 'Dynamics of Demand-led Innovation Policies'. 30 June 2009, Paris.
Invited talk at the EU Thematic Forum on Knowledge Transfer, organized by DG-Research. May 13, 2009.
Invited talk at the EU Member State workshop "Cell Broadcast for Public Warning". Amsterdam, 28-29 January 2009.
Invited speech and panel member at the meeting 'Investeren in infrastructuur en mobiliteit' organised by the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) and Transumo. December 10th, 2008.
Invited talk at the workshop on University-Industry linkages in the Netherlands: Research Issues and Policy Challenges. Eindhoven, 16 April 2008.
Invited panel discussion paper at the conference ‘(Re)Regulation in the Wake of Neoliberalism, Consequences of Three Decades of Privatization and Market Liberalization’, June 5 to 7, 2008,Utrecht.
Invited talk at the workshop ‘The changing role of public sector research in innovation’, at the Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) at the Norwegian Academy of Sciences, Oslo, 26-28 March 2008.
Invited talk at the High-Level Workshop on standardization, IP licensing, and antitrust, TILEC, Chateau du Lac, Brussel, 18 January 2006.
Invited talk at the IEEE 9th European Test Symposium (ETS-04) conference, May 24-26 2004, Corsica (France).
