1. Professor, CSCD, Osaka University
Institutional innovation The meaning and role of research on Industrial Property Rights
Alain-Marc RIEU
Professor, CSCD, Osaka University
Professor emeritus, University Lyon, Trans-science project, IETT & IAO, ENS Lyon

2. CSCD & iPrism seminar on new European IP regime
Sincere thanks
To Mr. Alan Johnson and Mrs Vanessa Rieu, from London’s Bristows, for having accepted to give this seminar at Osaka University and participate in an open debate with specialists from different institutions and with different interests.
Thank you all for coming to participate in a public seminar organized by two laboratories of Osaka University, CSCD and iPrism.
Special thanks to Mrs Etsuko Yoshida, from iPrism, Law department, who organized this seminar.
17/04/2017
CSCD & iPrism seminar on new European IP regime

3. Why a Center for the Study of Collaborative Design is concerned?
A few remarks.
CSCD is a laboratory developping research and training in Science in society issues.
Science and Technology Studies went through a major mutation around 2006:
they were born in the 1970s in a context of strong criticism on the control by the State apparatus and business firms on science and technology.
Around 2006, with Tony Blair’s New labor movement, the expertise built since the late 1980, led major British researchers to assert that Science studies had to become « policy oriented ».
They could do so without losing their critical edge based on all resources of Human and social sciences.
17/04/2017
CSCD & iPrism seminar on new European IP regime

4. Why a Center for the Study of Collaborative Design is concerned?
This evolution led to face new issues and develop new expertise and interest:
Economics of innovation is certainly the most important outcome of this evolution
Sociology of research and innovation became broader, more politically pertinent and less politically partisan.
The knowledge produced and communicated became the platform of debates with the various communities concerned by science and technology, with government, businesses, universities and also with society.
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CSCD & iPrism seminar on new European IP regime

5. Why a Center for the Study of Collaborative Design is concerned?
Japan and Germany, with the UK, were and are without any doubt the nations most active and innovative in this evolution.
This movement led to a sort of General Schumpeterian theory, which can summarized in two sentences:
Innovation comes from all corners of society
Innovation is a property of a type of social system. This remains a challenge.
17/04/2017
CSCD & iPrism seminar on new European IP regime

6. Why a Center for the Study of Collaborative Design is concerned?
In this dynamic, the role played by innovations in Industrial property law has been left in a sort of conceptual shadow, left in the hands of lawyers in law firms and in businesses, or in last resource in the hands of Courts.
Since 2000 and the first crisis of the bubble economy, the role of IP has been leaving the shade and is gaining its full place among human and social sciences
What is remarkable in Europe new Unitary Patent system is that it is a major Schumpeterian innovation, potentially quite positively disruptive.
17/04/2017
CSCD & iPrism seminar on new European IP regime