Intellectual Property Statistics: Measuring Framework for Standards and Trade in Ideas

Eskil Ullberg is Adjunct Professor of Economics at George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia, USA) and Director of the Trade in Ideas Program hosted at the Institute for Management of Innovation and Technology (Sweden). His research interest is on markets in patents, and how they leverage the human capital formation, especially for developing countries, through exchange in human ideas leading to specialization in patented technology and thereby to gains in the global stock of technology. He has published books, articles and policy speeches on the subject including markets in patents (IP) as a new economic development policy emphasising the importance of institutional arrangements, and management of risk and uncertainty through IP strategy. This new economic development policy was evaluated in a pilot-study with five+ developing countries in 2017-2019 with the purpose of informing a policy discussion on trade in ideas (IP). Prof. Ullberg is a pioneer in experimental studies of markets in patents and is active in the patent market and cross-border trade discussions with Members of and the institutions of the United Nations, the European Commission and the World Trade Organization.

Eskil Ullberg 是美國喬治梅森大學（位於維吉尼亞州費爾法克斯）的兼任經濟學教授，以及瑞典創新與技術管理研究所所主持的「思想貿易計畫」的主任。他的研究興趣集中在專利市場，以及這些市場如何促進人力資本的形成，特別是對於發展中國家而言，透過人類思想的交流導致專利技術的專業化，從而提升全球技術儲備。他在這個主題上發表了多本書籍、文章和政策演講，包括將專利市場（IP）視為一種新的經濟發展政策，強調制度安排的重要性，以及透過IP策略管理風險和不確定性。這項新的經濟發展政策在2017年至2019年間與五個以上的發展中國家進行了試點研究，旨在為有關思想貿易（IP）的政策討論提供資訊。Ullberg 教授是專利市場實驗研究的先驅，並積極參與與聯合國、歐洲委員會和世界貿易組織成員及其機構的專利市場和跨境貿易討論。