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EIPIN Innovation Society academic reference request form

Thank you for agreeing to write a reference. Your letter is important to the applicant; we cannot consider applications without supporting references. If you are unable to provide a reference please let the applicant know immediately to allow them to make alternative arrangements.

Background on the EIPIN Innovation Society EIPIN Innovation Society is a comprehensive project at the forefront of multidisciplinary research, examining the role of intellectual property (IP) as a complex adaptive system in innovation. The ambition is to enhance Europe’s capacity to foster innovation-based sustainable economic growth globally. The primary research objective of the programme is to provide political leaders and stakeholders reliable conclusions and recommendations in the form of doctoral IP research on how to deal with the adaptive complexities of innovation cycles that secure economic benefits and uphold justice in the innovation society.

Fifteen Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) are trained to present their research findings on a number of topics of great societal interest, and to guide inventors and entrepreneurs through the lifecycle of IP-intensive assets that takes human creativity into the marketplace. The research and training programme provides for an unprecedented environment for ESRs that aims at educating a new generation of professionals and academic researchers who are properly equipped to face these challenges of fostering innovation-based growth. It consists of a research and a training part, which are closely connected and mutually inform each other.

The involvement of industry associations representing numerous undertakings provides great access to non- academic actors. The ESR positions are open to candidates from all domains of sciences, providing a solid foundation for cross-cutting research in the area of innovation policies, while overcoming a traditional separation of disciplines.

The EIPIN Innovation programme, coordinated by Maastricht University, is a Marie SkƗodowska Curie Innovative Training Network project, funded by the European Union. This project sets up a European Joint Doctorate programme which will lead to the conferral of joint and double doctoral degrees from two of the five participating universities.

These Universities are:  Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, University of London  Magister Lvcentinvs, University of Alicante  Intellectual Property Law and Knowledge Management (IPKM), Maastricht University  Centre for International Intellectual Property (CEIPI), University of Strasbourg  Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC), University of Augsburg

In total, 15 PhD projects are part of the programme, each investigating different, as yet under-explored aspects of the adaptive complexities of innovation cycles. For more information, see http://www.eipin-innovationsociety.org/

Your reference Please follow the instructions below:

1. Please complete all of the information below, to enable us to match your reference to the applicant’s file. 2. Please address all of the subsequent questions in your reference, which should be printed on official university headed paper, signed and dated. 3. Please return the reference directly to EIPIN Innovation Society electronically. 4. Please inform the applicant when you have sent your reference. We will inform them when we process it.

This reference should be returned by e-mail to [email protected] from your institutional email address (a webmail address is not official for our purposes). You may contact us at the same address if you have any questions regarding your reference.

1 Applicant details: Surname: Forename(s):

Date of Birth (DD/MM/YY): EIPIN Innovation Society ESR vacancy number ( If known)

Your details Name: Contact email address:

Current position: How do you know the applicant?

Current institution: How long have you known the applicant?

Items to consider when writing this reference

1. Has the applicant discussed his/her motivation for the proposed project with you? 2. How well do you know the applicant’s academic work? 3. If your university does not supply transcripts, please comment specifically on the courses taken by the applicant and the grades attained. 4. What is/was the language of instruction? 5. Relative to other students from the same university and following the same degree programme, please indicate an overall assessment of the applicant’s ranking in class; please indicate if the ranking system is formal or informal

Top Top Top Top Bottom Unable 5% 10% 25% 50% 50% to comment Academic Performance Intellectual Ability Capacity for original thinking Motivation for further study Written and oral communication skills

6. In your opinion how well do the applicant’s studies to date equip him or her to follow the doctoral programme in the framework of the EIPIN Innovation Society project? You might wish to comment on the applicant’s: writing skills; analytical skills; presentation skills; quantitative skills (if relevant to programme) 7. To your knowledge does the applicant have any work experience relevant to this application? 8. To your knowledge does the applicant have any other qualifications relevant to this application? 9. Do you have any other comments on this applicant’s application to EIPIN Innovation Society project for doctoral studies?

☐ I strongly ☐ I recommend this ☐ I do not ☐ Unable to recommend this applicant for the recommend this comment applicant for the above programme of applicant for the above programme of study above programme of study. study.

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