Lecture synopsis 

Join Suma Athreye, Professor of Technology Strategy at Essex Business School, for this short lecture entitled Intellectual property management and 25 years of TRIPS.

Professor Athreye explores how the signing of the TRIPS agreement (The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) has led to patent policies becoming increasingly harmonised, often against the national interest. She explains the consequences of this forced harmonisation and reviews the key issues in the domestic politics of implementation, as the new rules migrate from the international to national levels.

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Speaker bio

Suma Athreye is Professor of Technology Strategy at Essex Business School.  Her main research interests lie in the fields of economics of innovation or technology management and international economics or international management. Suma has published over 50 papers on these subjects and won several research grants for work in these areas. She is Area Editor of the Journal of International Business and Policy and serves on the Editorial Board of the academic journals Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development and Multinational Business Review.

In recognition of the academic and social impact of her research, Suma has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts and Commerce (FRSA) and the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) in the UK. 

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