The coronavirus outbreak has undoubtedly disrupted our lives and redimensioned our priorities. Research is also feeling the consequences. As academics, it is our moral duty to redirect our work to current societal concerns. Our IPACST team has tried to work in this direction. Some activities are: The OpenCovidPledge. Frank Tietze, our team member at the…
Dr. Viola Prifti presents at the Second IP Researchers Europe Conference (IPRE)
The Second IPRE annual event organized by the School of Law of the University of Geneva (UNIGE), in collaboration with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) took place on 28-29 June in the premises of the WIPO and WTO buildings. IPRE is an important initiative that brings together “IP…
IPACST Special Issue “Intellectual Property Strategies and Sustainable Business Models for Sustainability Transitions”
The special issue “Intellectual Property Strategies and Sustainable Business Models for Sustainability Transitions” is now open for submissions. Edited by members of our team, Dr Frank Tietze, Prof Anjula Gurtoo, Dr Viola Prifti, Dr Roberto Hernández Chea, and Prof Nancy Bocken, the special issue will publish relevant research on intellectual property and sustainable business models…
Dr. Viola Prifti at the European Photonics Roadshow Series
Our IPACST postdoctoral researcher in Berlin, Viola Prifti, gave a brief presentation on the link between intellectual property rights and sustainable agriculture at the European Photonics Roadshow, New technologies in Food and Agriculture organized by EPRISE (H2020, aiming to empower photonic SMEs in four Life Science sectors: health, food, agriculture and pharma) at the World Trade…
IPACST Advisory Board Meeting in Berlin
On 29 May, the IPACST team welcomed for the first time its advisory board’s members in Berlin. The advisory board combines a wealth of outstanding entrepreneurial and scientific expertise in the fields of intellectual property and sustainability. The invaluable advice of the advisory board’s members helps IPACST refine the research project and further the exploration…
IPACST at the spring conference of the University for Sustainability Alliance
During the annual spring conference of the University for Sustainability Alliance, three team members of our research team presented their work and discussed it with the participants from various disciplines and countries. Pratheeba Vimalnath presented the core concept of the IPACST project in her keynote at the Workshop I: The Use of Knowledge for Sustainability…
Call for Contributions for Workshop I: “The Use of Knowledge for Sustainability Transitions”
Freie Universität Berlin is delighted to host the University Alliance for Sustainability’s (UAS) fourth Spring Campus Conference from April 1st-5th 2019 in Berlin, Germany. Our annual weeklong event is open to sustainability experts from all five UAS partner universities, as well as interested external stakeholders working in the field. In 2019, we will address the…
