2011
Analysing the Impact of IP Technical Assistance
This study aims to assess to what extent developed country technical assistance programmes are likely to have interacted with, and potentially contributed to the promotion of country-appropriate sustainable changes in intellectual property strategies and technological capacities over the period 2005-10. It does this primarily on the basis of Intellectual property technical assistance impact assessments of four emerging and transition economies; namely Brazil, India, Poland and Thailand and an overview of intellectual property technical assistance in Least Developed Countries (LDCs).
Commissioned
by: IPO
Date
published: 2 June 2011
Author(s): Dr. Roya Ghafele (Oxford University)
Private Copying and Fair Compensation
A study on the operation of levies on copying media and equipment in the EU. This report offers the first independent empirical assessment of the European levy system as a whole.
The research consolidates the evidence on levy setting, collection and distribution; reviews the scope of consumer permissions associated with levy payments; and reports the results of three product level studies (printer/scanners, portable music/video/game devices, and tablet computers), analysing the relationship between VAT, levy tariffs and retail prices in 20 levy and non-levy countries.
Commissioned
by: IPO / ESRC
Date
published: 19 October 2011
Author(s): Professor Martin Kretschmer
- Summary report
- Full
report
(1.95Mb)
This report was one of two presented and discussed at the Informing Copyright Policy workshop held at the UK Big Innovation Centre on the 19 October 2011.
This note of proceedings highlights the key points which emerged and provides some brief reflections on them.
Date published: 29 November 2011
Changing Business Models in the Creative Industries
This research examines the business model response to the change from analogue to digital in the creative industries.
Looking at both traditional and emerging business models, the project focuses on three sectors: television, computer games and music.
A series of six case studies, two from each sector, provide illustrative cases of the business model response to challenges to enforcement of copyright and the advent of digital technologies.
Commissioned
by: IPO / ESRC
Date
published: 19 October 2011
Author(s): Dr. Nicola Searle
This report was one of two presented and discussed at the Informing Copyright Policy workshop held at the UK Big Innovation Centre on the 19 October 2011.
This note of proceedings highlights the key points which emerged and provides some brief reflections on them.
Date published: 29 November 2011
The Economics of Design Rights
Design is of key importance to the UK economy, with £33.5billion spent on design in 2008. This importance prompted the IPO to commission a set of research projects around design rights which has been produced in four chapters.
The first chapter looks at where design activity takes place in the UK, how it is purchased (bought externally or created internally) and how registered rights are used.
The second chapter looks at the impact registered design rights have on business performance, given a UK or EU design registration.
The third chapter is a survey looking at the reasons for the behaviour of firms when interacting (or not as the case may be) with the IP framework for design.
The fourth chapter is an international comparison of design systems in the UK, France and Germany.
Design council event, 21
Stepember 2011
Audio
coverage of all presentations given during the days event are now available.
Commissioned
by: IPO
Date published: September 2011
Author(s): Various - as stated below
- Chapter
1 (2.21Mb) - Jonathan Haskel, Imperial College Business School and CEPR
Annarosa Pesole, Imperial College Business School - Chapter
2 (626Kb) - Elif Bascavusoglu-Moreau
and Bruce S. Tether,
Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London - Chapter
3 (869Kb) - Dr James Moultrie,
Finbarr Livesey
- Chapter
4 (865Kb) - BOP Consulting
Film, Television & Radio, Books, Music and Art: UK Investment in Artistic Originals
This report reviews the definition of artistic originals and official estimates of investment in originals as recorded in the UK National Accounts. New data are also used to estimate the value of the UK stock of artistic originals. The report concludes that approximately £1.1bn more was invested in original artistic work in the UK in 2008 than had previously been estimated. Combining these data with new depreciation rates suggests an upward revision of £3.5bn to the UK stock of artistic originals in 2008.
Commissioned
by: IPO
Date published: July 2011
Author(s): Peter Goodridge & Jonathan Haskel
The Role of Intellectual Property Rights in the UK Market Sector
This report estimates
(a) the level of UK market sector investment in knowledge assets protected by Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and
(b) the impact of investment in those assets via their contribution to labour productivity growth in the UK market sector. Estimates for investment and the stock of IPR capital are based on previous work and includes new estimates for investment in artistic originals, funded by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) and featured in the accompanying report.
We also comment on additional spending on IP-protected goods that do not represent investments, although the coverage of this category is far from complete. Our main findings are:
1) On average, between 2000 and 2008, 48% of knowledge investment in the UK market sector was protected by IPRs
2) The majority of IPR investment is on assets protected by copyright and design rights
3) In 2008 approximately 62% of the stock of knowledge assets in the UK market sector was protected by IPRs
4) On average, between 1990 and 2008, 10.6% of growth in labour productivity was due to growth in capital deepening of IPR-protected assets. Comparable figures for ICT equipment and knowledge capital not protected by IPRs are 11.1% and 10.3% respectively.
Commissioned
by: IPO
Date published: July 2011
Author(s): Shikeb Farooqui, Peter Goodridge, Jonathan Haskel
Trade Mark Incentives
This report investigates potential links between trade marking and performance. The researchers document an overview of corporate trade marking activity in Britain, analyse the role of trade marks in the innovation process for firms and their impact on households, and explore possible links between trade marking and branding.
Commissioned
by: IPO
Date published: July 2011
Author(s): Mark Rogers & Christine Greenhalgh
UK Intellectual Property Awareness Survey 2010
This report presents findings from the second UK IP Awareness Survey, giving an accurate benchmark indication of the state of IP awareness in the UK across all sizes of firm and all sectors of industry.
Commissioned by: IPO
Date
published: March 2011
Author(s): Dr. Robert Pitkethly (St. Peter's College & Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre Oxford University)