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"Contributors" [2006] ELECD 363; in Andersen, Birgitte (ed), "Intellectual Property Rights" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006)

Book Title: Intellectual Property Rights

Editor(s): Andersen, Birgitte

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781845422691

Section Title: Contributors

Number of pages: 8

Extract:

Contributors

Birgitte Andersen

Birgitte Andersen is Reader in the Economics and Management of
Innovation in the School of Management and Organizational Psychology,
Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, where she is also Director of
E-business Programmes (since October 2000). She has a PhD in Economics.
Her research profile includes evolutionary economics and industrial
dynamics with respect to innovation and institutions, and the economics
and management of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). Selected research
programmes include: (i) European Union funded Network of Excellence
2005­2010: Dynamics of Institutions and Markets in Europe, (DIME) where
Andersen is Coordinator for the research area on the formal aspects of
knowledge exchange, which has a special focus on IPRs; (ii) Convenor of
Global Network on IPR Research (since 2004); (iii) Member of research
network on New Directions in Copyright Law (2004­2007), funded by
the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB); and (iv) owner of
research project, The Rationales for IPRs, funded by the British Academy
(2003­2004). Publications include Technological Change and The Evolution
of Corporate Innovation: The Structure of Patenting 1890­1990 (Edward
Elgar: Cheltenham, 2001). She has advised economists and policy makers of
national governments inside and outside Europe, as well as leading interest
organizations. She has also collaborated with leading researchers at the
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) of
the United Nations on IPR matters in relation to copyrights and cultural
industries; and the United Nations International Labour Office (ILO),
Employment and Strategy Department, on productivity measurement and
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