Topic：World Intellectual Property Report 2019—Geography of Innovation, Local Hotspots and Global Innovation Networks

Speaker: Julio RAFFO

Moderator: Dai Mi, Associate professor, School of Economics and Business Administration, Beijing Normal University 

Time: November 18, 13.30-15.00 

Location: 1620, Rear Main Building

Julio Raffo is Head of the Innovation Economics Section at the Economic and Statistics Division of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). He holds a PhD in Economics from the Université de Paris Nord and has post-doctoral experience in the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. His main research interests are the economics and metrics of innovation and intellectual property, with a particular focus on their intersection with socioeconomic development.