Announcement new IGIR member: Gabriele Cifrodelli

Gabriele’s research interests mostly lie in the intersection of Intellectual Property, Technology and (Open) Innovation, currently with a specific focus - as part of his PhD project - on the application and testing of the Governing Knowledge Commons Framework in AI-powered drug discovery and development. Gabriele holds a LLM with Distinction in Intellectual Property and Digital Economy at the University of Glasgow and a (combined) Bachelor and Masters in Law Cum Laude at the University of Trento.

Within IGIR, Gabriele contributes to the Innovation Research Cluster, that aims at studying how countries deal with the adaptive complexities of innovation cycles in order to secure innovation-based sustainable economic benefits, reward creativity and uphold justice in the innovation society. In particular, Gabriele is interested in assessing different forms of governance, both complementary and opposite to IP, in order to establish regulatory frameworks for the most advanced industry sectors, such as pharma and tech, and to implement such frameworks not only in developed countries but also in least-developed and developing countries. Gabriele indeed thinks that these countries should be investigated more carefully, since they sometimes challenge the ‘classic’ normative principles, for instance the IP-related ones, and instead recognize and apply alternative forms of (self-)regulation, that are for instance community-based. The ultimate objective would be to assess, elaborate and propose systems of governance that can be as adaptive as the ever-evolving technologies that they seek to regulate.