Promoting Sustainable Innovation and the Circular Economy

Ole-Andreas Rognstad is full professor at the Department of Private Law, and director of Centre of European law, University of Oslo. He teaches a whole range of subjects, including legal methodology and EU/EEA law and intellectual property law, in particular copyright law. His authorship includes a textbook on (Norwgian) copyright law, a monograph on Property Aspects of Intellectual Property, contributions to a (co-authored) textbook on EEA law as well as a large number of articles mainly in the field of intellectual property. He has chaired, and been a member of, a number of public dispute settlement resolution bodies in Norway and is a member of the European Copyright Society, Academia Europea and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Art.Taina Pihlajarinne is a professor at the Helsinki University Faculty of Law. Her research interests are focused on the relationship between sustainability and private law, especially intellectual property rights. She has also written articles and books about technological development and IPRs. At this moment she leads the research project “Shaping, fixing and making markets via IPR: regulating sustainable innovation ecosystems” funded by the Academy of Finland.Jukka Mähönen is Professor of Cooperative Law at the University of Helsinki and Professor of Law at the University of Oslo. He is a sub-project principal investigator in the Research Council of Finland project Shaping, fixing and making markets via IPR: regulating sustainable innovation ecosystems (SHARE) and a work package leader in a Horizon Europe project Towards a New Zero Food Waste Mindset Based on Holistic Assessment (ToNoWaste). He holds LL.M. (Berkeley), M.Sc. (Econ.) (Turku), LL.Lic. (Turku) and LL.D. (Turku) degrees. His research interests are in accounting and auditing law, cooperative and company law, sustainability law and private global governance.

• 1. Introduction2. Innovations and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises for Sustainability and the Circular Economy3. Financial Risks of Unsustainability: Digital Innovations4. Sustainability Policies to Incentivize Data Driven Innovation5. Opening Up Big Data for Sustainability: What Role for Database Rights in the Fourth Industrial Revolution?6. An Access and Transfer Right (ATR) – A Different Form of Right to Data for the Internet of Things7. ‘Data Ownership’ Ambiguity – to the Detriment of Sustainable Innovation8. The Right to Repair in the United States9. The Right to Repair in Australia10. Shifting Normality - Regulation of Planned and Premature Obsolescence in Europe11. Conclusions