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LONDON — University College London —UCL’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) has launched thought-provoking event series exploring ideas of ownership, value extraction and distribution.
In a news release last week, officials said the event series will examine who pays for health innovation to who owns
our data, the Who Owns What and Why?
The series expected to bring together world-leading thinkers to question some of society’s most basic assumptions.
Thought leaders in academia and public policy will share their wealth of knowledge on stimulating topics
of public concern, from healthcare to public access, philanthropy to housing to climate change.
Starting on Wednesday April 28, the entire series will be free and open to the public, accessible online.
Academics, public servants, innovators and anyone interested in public policy is encouraged to sign up for the talks online.
The 1st event: “Are We Paying Twice For Health Innovation?”
“In the context of the current pandemic, and broader debates on biopharmaceutical and digital health innovation structures, the first talk explores how the ownership of key knowledge and physical infrastructures, and the governance of public-private collaborations affects the development, manufacturing, distribution and accessibility of new health technologies in health systems,” the release indicated.
The discussion asks who benefits from the profits that derive from medical innovation financed by the state.
“Who takes on the risk of health innovation today? Who reaps the rewards? And how do ownership configurations affect these dynamics of value extraction and
creation?”
Other talks include a discussion between UCL IIPP’s founding director and Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, Mariana Mazzucato, and author and former New York Times columnist, Anand Giridharadas, in which they will reflect on the role of philanthropy in society; another explores how the housing market can be transformed for a more sustainable and inclusive economy.
The Green New Deal and Digital Feudalism fill out the compelling line up of topics to be covered in the coming
months. The series is funded by the Omidyar Network.
For more information on this series, please visit: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-
purpose/who-owns-what-and-why-iipp-public-event-series-2021
Speakers at “Are We Paying Twice For Health Innovation?”
• Suerie Moon (Co-Director, Global Heath Centre, Graduate Institute Geneva)
• Victor Roy (Clinical Instructor, Boston University; and Research Associate,
Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose)
• Els Torreele (Visiting Fellow, Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose)
• Amy Kapczynski (Professor, Yale Law School; and Faculty Co-Director at
Global Health Justice Partnership)
You can register now to attend this talk here:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GIRILVo9SHO3_yj_23vFVQ
There are five events lined up in the next few months:
1. Are we paying twice for health innovation? (28 April 2021)
2. Philanthropy and the State: who is funding what and why? (12 May 2021)
3. The global housing crisis and the homeownership myth (9 June 2021)
4. Digital feudalism: The future of platform capitalism (30 June 2021)
5. The Green New Deal: What’s the real deal? (Date TBC)
For more information on this series, please visit: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-
purpose/who-owns-what-and-why-iipp-public-event-series-2021
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