Sacha Wunsch-Vincent

Breakthrough technologies – Semiconductor, innovation and intellectual property

Semiconductor technology is at the origin of today’s digital economy. Its contribution to innovation, productivity and economic growth in the past f...

Measuring innovation in energy technologies: green patents as captured by WIPO's IPC green inventory

We analyze inventions in green energy technologies over the period 2005-2017. We use a novel dataset, making use of the IPC Green Inventory of the Wor...

Breakthrough technologies – Robotics, innovation and intellectual property

Robotics technology and the increasing sophistication of artificial intelligence are breakthrough innovations with significant growth prospects and th...

Participative Web and User-created Content

Web 2.0, Wikis and Social Networking

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The Economics of Copyright and the Internet: Moving to an Empirical Assessment Relevant in the Digital Era

Technology and the Internet have triggered important changes to how creative works are created and accessed, and how creators and copyright-based indu...

The Informal Economy, Innovation and Intellectual Property: Concepts, Metrics and Policy Considerations

The authors connect concepts, definitions and data regarding the informal economy, innovation, and intellectual property in order to establish a frame...

International Patenting Strategies of Chinese Residents: An Analysis of Foreign-Oriented Patent Families

This paper analyzes Chinese patenting abroad by using WIPO’s foreign-oriented patent family dataset and a respective enterprise questionnaire. It fi...

A missing link in the analysis of global value chains: cross-border flows of intangible assets, taxation and related measurement implications

Understanding cross-border flows of disembodied knowledge, often associated with intellectual property (IP), is essential to analyzing how modern econ...

Defining and Measuring the “Market for Brands”: Are Emerging Economies Catching Up?

Markets for brands, as defined in this paper, play an important but underappreciated economic role in today’s global economy. The ability to use Mar...

Enhancing Innovation in the Ugandan Agri-Food Sector: Robusta Coffee Planting Material & Tropical Fruit Processing

Uganda's innovation performance in recent years has consistently outpaced other low-income and Sub-Saharan African countries. Though encouraging, this...

WTO, E-commerce and Information Technologies

From Uruguay Round Through the Doha Development Agenda; a Report to the Un ICT Task Force

The purpose of this paper is to take stock and explain most of the IT- and ecommerce- related WTO issues. It provides a historical overview of the WTO...

WTO, E-commerce and Information Technologies

From the Uruguay Round Through the Doha Development Agenda : a Report to the UN ICT Task Force

This paper presents an overview of one of the most important processes today determining the governance of information technology: the growing role of...

The Informal Economy in Developing Nations

Hidden Engine of Innovation?

This pioneering study offers a conceptual model and rich empirical evidence to help researchers and policy-makers understand informal innovation in de...