Intellectual property
Report
AI and music
This report captures the perspectives of creative professionals across Australia and New Zealand to explore the relationship between music and artificial intelligence, highlighting the economic, cultural and regulatory implications of this rapidly evolving market.
Report
Australian IP report 2024
The 2024 Australian IP report suggests Australian firms were resilient to global economic headwinds last year in generating new intellectual property (IP). The strongest growth among Australian’s IP applicants was in energy equipment such as electric motors, generators, batteries and solar panels.
Discussion paper
Non-competes and other restraints: understanding the impacts on jobs, business and productivity - issues paper
The Competition Review is inviting public submissions to this issues paper. The paper covers emerging concerns relating to non-competes and other restraint of trade agreements between businesses and workers, and no-poach and wage-fixing agreements between businesses.
Report
Migration and regional innovation in Australia
This paper provides evidence on the impact of international migrants on regional innovation. The study combines administrative individual-level data covering all Australian residents with data on intellectual property rights applications such as patents, trademarks and design rights.
Report
An economic mirage: how Canadian universities impact freedom to operate
The central purpose of this paper is to examine publicly funded university research in Canada - in terms of outcomes - namely, intellectual property (IP) as indicated by patent data, the resultant ownership of the IP generated, and the implications for impact on freedom to operate, a measure of Canadian firms’ ability to commercialise their...