Rudi Bekkers

University Professor in Standards and Intellectual Property

  • Pledge on Education on Standards signed in Brussels

    On 30 November 2023, at the meeting of the EC High-Level Forum on Standardisation, 22 EU Member States and 26 organisations signed a pledge on Education and Skills on Standards. These parties have committed themselves to offering traineeships, developing teaching modules, or carrying out other actions to further education on standards in Europe. This pledge Read more

  • Three papers at GEOINNO 2024

    At the GEOINNO 2024 conference in Manchester (10th – 12th January 2024), three new papers were accepted which I co-author. See the Conferences page for more details. Read more

  • Talk at DIN

    On 28-29 September 2023, I will speak about standards education at the DIN event Durchstarten mit Normung, Berlin.  Read more

  • Conference papers EPIP23

    At EPIP23 (11-13 September, Krakow) I have three papers accepted (see conferences) Read more

  • New publication EIPR

    With a group of authors, we have a new paper published in European Intellectual Property Review on the preservation of the Royalty-Free Standards Ecosystem.   Read more

  • Invited talk DIN

    On 10 Feb. 2023, I will deliver an invited talk at the 50th meeting of the DIN-Präsidialausschusses FOCUS.ICT (Presidential Committee of DIN, the German national standards institute), on Education on Standards. Berlin: Germany.  Read more

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