The great IP debate: this house believes patents are more harmful than helpful

Are patents good or bad for innovation ? Alessandro Nuvolari will be one of the key-note speakers in a public debate on this issue at the next 2016 European Science Forum in Manchester  (26 July). The debate will feature also David K. Levine (European University Institute), Bruno Pottelsberghe (Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management and former chief-economist of the European Patent Office), Willem Broakaert (V-BIO Ventures).

In the debate, Levine and Nuvolari will argue that patents are harmful for innovation while Van Pottelsberghe and Broakaert will defend the opposite position.

http://www.esof.eu/the-programme/event-information/great-ip-debate.html