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… and Rewards Academics are experiencing increasing work pressure, a trend that is expected to persist. Various surveys have reported the consequences of factors such as insecurity in career development and limited financial means from the state combined with the increasing competition for external research funding and the ever-present mandate to publish. The experiences of the last year have only underlined the need for this discussion. All of academia is overwhelmed by, for example, pressure … the university-wide discussion on how to move forward together. The Maastricht Young Academy (MYA) is an independent and interfaculty body of academics established in 2017 and provides advice to the UM Executive Board and Faculty Boards whenever it finds this necessary. This MYA position paper deals with Recognition and Reward and is intended as a general contribution to the debate at UM in particular, but also seeks to contribute to the national and international discussion on changing the way … standards and metrics. In our current culture quantitative metrics still play an important role (despite agreements like DORA), and most of us have been trained to use these to assess the quality of research and education. There are perhaps situations where quantitative metrics are the only external source of information available. However, the R&R policy goes beyond this and the use of quantitative metrics should represent the beginning of a dynamic and continuous discussion between the person …

… Serving innovative start-ups pro-bono with the wisdom of intellectual property laws FRIDAY FORTNIGHTLY WEEK: THE IP AND COMPETITION NEWSLETTER (ED. 2022 WEEK 42 NO. 34) Dear Readers, Welcome to the first edition of the academic year 2022-23. In light of the long break between this edition and the previous one (No. 33 in July 2022), in this edition and the next, we shall … University Page 1 of 10 1. Competition law 1.1 EU/US discuss best practises to reign in the big tech at the 2nd joint policy dialogue Following the emergence of the digital markets and the nouvelle challenges to competition law enforcement therein, whereas the EU introduced the Digital Markets Act; the US too plans to introduce new laws, such as the American Innovation and Choice Online Bill and the Open App Markets Act. To co-operate on the issue of platform regulation, on 7th December 2021, the … DSW is not protected by copyright in the US. In 2014, Vitra first requested a “cease- and-desist” order against Kwantum. The lower court, however, found that Kwantum did not infringe Vitra’s rights in DSW. On appeal, the higher court reversed the findings, and found in favour of Vitra. In the currently pending appeal before the HR, Kwantum challenged the findings of the Dutch Court of Appeal. It raised doubts about the scope of Article 2(7) of the BC, that is applicable to industrial designs …

… Environmental, Social and Governance Impact on Corporate Tail Risks Name and Contact Information of the Advisors • Prof. dr., W.F.M., Dennis, Bams  Research group: SBE – Finance department  Address for correspondence: PO Box 616, 6200 MD MAASTRICHT  Telephone: + 31 6 504 55 780  E-mail: w.bams@maastrichtuniversity.nl • Dr., … investigate how Environmental, Social and Governance scores separately effect the cost of equity and find that the three dimensions of ESG do not impose the same significant influence. There is an important trade-off between risk mitigation and cost, where it concerns the corporate ESG initiatives. Too little ESG is harmful, as a firm may not deal adequately with ESG risk, whereas too much ESG is costly as the marginal effect of improved ESG decreases. ESG is also a risk driver in itself. Examples … recent results by introducing a more granular representation of ESG. It provides in-depth information about and effects from the different dimensions of ESG. Second, since in recent years sudden extreme incidents happen more often, tail risks has become a more prominent measure to consider. The aim of this research project is to present novel ways to study mitigating effect of ESG risk. Third, even though investors pay more attention to aggregate ESG ratings and ESG behaviour, they weigh each …