The Office of Transfer of Knowledge, in collaboration with the research team TECHNIS and the Postgraduate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship TIME Master’s in Business Economics organizes on Tuesday, March 29 at 13:00 the 9th seminar of the Office for the period 2021-2022.

The speaker is Mr. Guido Cozzi, University of St. Gallen.
The title of the seminar is: “Shall we fear a patent waiver? Not for Covid-19 “.

To connect: https://zoom.us/j/96479541729
Meeting ID: 964 7954 1729

Abstract: Shall vaccine patents be temporarily suspended? In a simple model, I reflect the essence of the debate on the Covid-19 patent waiver. The central message is that if the probability of imitating innovative vaccines is low, then a patent waiver would be harmless to future R&D. Conversely, a patent waiver would be undesirable if it is too easy to imitate future innovations.