Competition Policy and Intellectual Property Rights

Typ: Vorlesung + Übung/Tutorium
SWS: 4
Credit Points: 6
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Kursbeschreibung / -kommentar

This module is split into two sections. The objective of the first section is to inform students about how management of international firms can act and react (strategically, tactics) on different varieties of national anti-trust laws and on different competition-market structures in general. In particular, the shapes and roles of the European Union Competition regime and that of the US is reviewed. The objective of the second is to make the student aware of the two characteristics of IPR (focus on copyright, trademark, trade secrets, and patents): the protection of IPR as a driver of innovation on the one side and IPR as a hindrance to the dissemination of knowledge/access to knowledge. In addition, the module focuses on how enterprises in catch-up economies can use IPR regimes with a view on international competitiveness.