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Welcome to Research in Europe
The site originated from work by a networking of European researchers on the European Commission projects NewKInd (New Indicators for the Knowledge Based Economy) and NPRnet (New Policy Rationales for the Support of Public Research in the EU)
As well as archiving this work, the site is devoted to identifying resources relevant to the policy and policy research community including identifying emerging debates in the field. Persons interested in submitting material for the site are urged to contact Ed Steinmueller
Emerging policy debates
Controversy over new European Patent Legislation
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Letter from Economists Concerned About Proposed Directive on the Patentability of
Computer-Implemented Inventions (HTM) (PDF)
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Critique of the Rapporteur's Explanatory Statement accompanying the JURI Report to the European Parliament on the proposed Directive (HTM) (PDF)
- Revised version of the paper "An Empirical Look at Software Patents" by James Bessen and Robert M. Hunt. This new version
claims to address all of the major substantive issues raised by Hahn and Wallsten. Paper available from the Research on innovation website, and from this website
- A shorter non-technical version of the above paper, entitled "The Software Patent Experiment", is available from the Research on innovation website and locally. Please note that this paper will be published by the OECD in the (forthcoming) Proceedings of the OECD Conference "Patents, Innovation and Economic Performance" held in Paris in August 2003
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