The 4th Industrial Revolution and Innovation Wars
Fourth Industrial Revolution: “The convergence into new applications and domains of various technologies that are currently developed, such as bio-, nano-, and material technologies, artificial intelligence, big data, internet of things and 3D printing.”
In order to meet the seventeen sustainable development goals, set by the UN, technological innovation in frontier technologies is key. With advent of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR), however, the struggle to become the frontrunner in these frontier technologies has become as pertinent as meeting these goals. With the multilateral trading system facing its greatest crisis to date, rule-based trading in goods and services is being replaced by “America First” and a rise in nationalism. This lecture deals with the question how innovation policy can form a conduit or hindrance to facilitate technology transfer in the 4IR, and what role state and industrial actors have in shaping a sustainable 4IR economy.
About the speaker
Anselm Kamperman Sanders is Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Director of the Advanced Masters Intellectual Property Law and Knowledge Management (IPKM LL.M/MSc), and Academic Director of the Institute for Globalization and International Regulation (IGIR) at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He acts as Academic Co-director of the Annual Intellectual Property Law School and IP Seminar of the Institute for European Studies of Macau (IEEM), Macau SAR, China and is Adjunct Professor at Jinan University Law School, Guangzhou, China.
Anselm holds a Ph.D. from the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, where he worked as a Marie Curie Fellow before joining Maastricht University in 1995. He is a member of the European Commission expert group on development and implications of patent law in the field of biotechnology and genetic engineering. He is the coordinator of the European IP Institutes Network-Innovation Society, a Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska Curie ITN-EJD Action (www.eipin-innovationsociety.org).
This lecture is part of traditional series of lectures for alumni; the UM Star Lectures. The other 13 lectures are organized in 13 different cities and 5 countries on the same day at the same time. This event is organized to reach out to and inspire alumni, share academic insights, experiences and memories and to create an interconnected UM Alumni Community.