Publications

The transcription from the Amigo Society Debate from 15th January 2008, which focused on health scares.

This month, we look at the following topics:

• Why the Retirement Age Should be None of the Government`s Business – Kristian Niemietz

• The ‘Empowerment Through Savings` Programme – Philip Booth

• Avoiding Band Aids for Broken Bones. Health Care Reform in Lithuania – Monika Kacinskiene

• Echoes from the Past? Health Care Reform in Former Communist Countries - Lawrence Freeborn

• Plan B. Den dolda jakten på välfärd [Plan B. The Secret Quest for Welfare] by Henrik Lindberg et al – David Torstensson

• News Flashes

• Stockholm Network Publications and Events
  

This edition of the Eye on Europe focuses on the eastern European region with profiles of EE think tanks, analysis of Russia`s economic influence and an insightful piece on immigration by Philippe Legrain.

In this paper, empirical examples of technology transfer activities in the developing world are used to illustrate that Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), can, and do, work for less developed countries in the area of technology transfer.

The sixth edition of Climate of Opinion focuses on carbon mitigation policy and contains the following articles:

• Blue Sky Thinking for a Green Future by Paul Domjan

• A Touch of Frost by Helen Disney

• What Carbon Mitigation Policy for the EU? by Helen Davison

• Book Review - Six Degrees by Mark Lynas

• Microclimates - Top Stories in Energy and Environment
  

This month we look at the following topics:

• IP Economics: Market-based vs. Centrally Planned Solutions by Helen Disney and Dr. Meir P. Pugatch

• Intellectual Property in China: No Quick Fix by Sukanya Natarajan

• Incentives to Innovate, Discussing the Balancing Test by Yannis S. Katsoulacos

• Postgraduate Research Grants In the Field of Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property Rights

• Free Use or Fair Use? by David Torstensson, Rena Sasaki and Dr Meir Pugatch

• Stockholm Network ‘5ive Minutes’ DVD, A Quick Guide to Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property Rights.

• News Flashes
  

In 1999, the UK set up the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), now renamed the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. Germany followed suit in 2004 with the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG). Both institutions pursue different strategies with different outcomes. This paper analyses the performance of these institutions in terms of relevance, strategy, responsibility, transparency and stakeholder involvement, all in the wider context of the strengths and weaknesses of HTA as a form of healthcare rationing tool.

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The fifth edition of Climate of Opinion focuses on future fuels and contains the following articles:

• Commentary by Gulya Isyanova

• Swedish Cleantech: Hanging in the Balance of Success by Waldemar Ingdahl

• Hydrogen: The World of Energy in Transition by Jeffrey A. Serfass

• The Many Myths of Ethanol by Cristiane Coutinho

• Clean Coal Can Plug the Energy Gap by Tony Lodge

• Microclimates – Top Stories in Energy and Environment

This is the first issue of our relaunched Health and Welfare newsletter.

This months edition features:

• Commentary – Why yet another Newsletter on Health and Welfare Policies? by Kristian Niemietz and David Torstensson

• Topic of the Month – Towards a Europe of Worker Capitalists by Jose Pinera

• Think Tanker`s Corner – Slovakia: A Free Market Health Care Revolution and its Rollback by Peter Tatar

• Head2Head – Should Government Have a Role to Play in In-Patient Care? - David Furness vs. Helen Evans

• Book Review - “Wachstumsmarkt Gesundheit” by Peter Oberender, Ansgar Hebborn and Juergen Zerth – Kristian Niemietz

• News Flashes

• Stockholm Network Publications

Today the internet – and companies operating as internet mediators – finds itself at the centre of a contemporary legal and philosophical conflict over the protection of intellectual property rights. The Viacom v YouTube case is only the latest in a long list of court cases. This report seeks to analyse the current legal and philosophical disputes between internet mediators and content creators with regards to the protection of intellectual property on the internet, and to put this dispute within a wider context and debate over the protection of intellectual property.