Lunch webinar with Eva Hemmungs Wirtén: Patent or Perish?

The links between patenting and publishing constitute an intrinsic part of the development of the modern research infrastructure, the post-WW II ascent of R&D, technology transfer, and the belief in metrics and statistics as trustworthy indicators of progress and development.

During the webinar, 25 September, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén will give an historical and personal overview of these links, beginning with Marie Curie and continuing until the present time. As a story of the twentieth-century she will highlight the tension between the values of intellectual property and those traditionally associated with basic research.

About the speaker

Eva Hemmungs Wirtén is Professor of Mediated Culture at the Department of Culture and Society, Linköping University, Sweden, and has written extensively on the cultural history of international copyright, the public domain and, more recently, on patents as documents.

Find out more by reading the May 15, 2023 issue of Curie Magazine, where Eva HW is interviewed about the topic. (in Swedish)