Timmy Pielmeier has been awarded the GRUR Dissertation Prize in the category of Trademark, Competition and Design Law for his dissertation on  Die Konkurrenz von Urheberrecht und Lauterkeitsrecht im Binnenmarkt (The Relationship of Copyright and Fair Trading Law in the Internal Market). The awardee wrote a significant part of his work during his time as a scholarship holder at the Institute.

On 4 October 2022, Dietmar Harhoff, member of UNESCO’s High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) on the Implementation of the AI Recommendation since December 2021, participated as an expert in the con­fer­ence on “Building a Global Ethical Framework for AI: The UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI” in Bucharest, which addressed the guidelines on the design, development, and use of AI systems adopted in November 2021. The con­fer­ence focused on the need to promote diversity and inclusiveness, and how to move from principles to practice to assess the ethical impact of Artificial Intelligence on society.

On 26 October, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) published a comprehensive scientific expert study on data access entitled “Data access and sharing in Germany and in the EU: Towards a coherent legal framework for the emerging data economy”. The report was prepared by our senior research fellow Heiko Richter in co-authorship with the Berlin professors Heike Schweitzer, Axel Metzger and Knut Blind and other authors.

WOEPSR is coming back to Munich! After the 14^th workshop of the series in 2020, the “16^th Workshop on the Organization, Economics and Policy of Scientific Research”, jointly organized with TUM, will again take place at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition on 13 and 14 April 2023. Researchers who would like to present a paper are invited to submit it online by 15 January 2023.