Global Intellectual Property Licensing in Technologies of the Future

Ashish Bharadwaj is a widely published scholar in the areas of technology law, innovation & intellectual property policy, and patent licensing. He is a Professor of Law and Economics, and has served as Dean at two leading institutions in India - O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat; and BITS Law School, BITS Pilani Mumbai Campus. He has worked with five leading universities in Germany, India, Japan, and the US, with global innovation-intensive organisations, and various government departments in India. Dr. Bharadwaj founded the Centre for Research on Innovation for Shared Prosperity at BITS Law School in BITS Pilani's Mumbai Campus and Jindal Initiative on Research in IP and Competition (JIRICO) in Jindal Global Law School. He is a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo (Japan), affiliated faculty at Indiana University Bloomington's Maurer School of Law (USA), and Research Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition in Munich (Germany).
Dr. Bharadwaj holds a Ph.D. from the Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Law and Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, LL.M. from Erasmus University Rotterdam and University of Manchester, M.Sc. from College of Engineering Guindy at Anna University, India. He is the recipient of the Max Planck Society Fellowship from the Federal Government of Germany, Erasmus Mundus Scholarship from the European Commission, and the Thomas Edison Innovation Fellowship from Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason University.
He has 100+ publications in the form of articles in peer-reviewed journals, manuscripts, edited volumes, and invited op-eds. His last three books & edited volumes with Springer on technology innovation and patent licensing have been collectively accessed more than 350,000 times. For fifteen years, Dr. Bharadwaj has combined strong academic training in business economics and law with professional work in policy making to position himself as an emerging multidisciplinary thought leader in technology law, innovation management, and patent policy.