Stockholm Network Annual Report 2006/07 by Paul Healy

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Introduction Publications produced by the Stockholm Network per year: 1999 1 publication 2003 5 publications 2005 28 publications 2006-7 39 publications

This year the Stockholm Network is delighted to be celebrating its 10 th anniversary. Looking back over a decade of European public policy, it is impossible not to be struck by the rise in growth and influence of market-oriented think tanks. From our early days conducting small policy roundtables, when the concept of even having a think tank member in Spain or parts of eastern Europe seemed remote, we have seen market-oriented thinking and action flourish in all sorts of places, even at times in the face of government opposition and a very tough environment for fundraising. With over 130 members now operating in 40 countries and a broad base of financial support, the Stockholm Network and its affiliates are bigger, bolder and stronger today than ever before.

Good Friday Agreement

In many ways, the challenges remain the same as they did ten years ago – how to maximise economic growth, how to reform and modernise welfare systems for the consumer age and how to create a knowledge economy. But new problems have also arisen including energy security, climate change, the tension between intellectual property and competition and, indeed, how large the European Union could and should become. The Stockholm Network’s focus over the last 10 years has adapted to reflect and respond to these challenges. From an initial focus broadly on economic and welfare-state reform, we now have three core programmes of activity, covering the original health and welfare area, but also new programmes dedicated to intellectual property and competition, and energy and the environment. Each of these programmes now generates its own events, newsletters, media coverage, online papers and hard copy books and reports, reaching the eyes and ears of opinion formers across the developed world.

encouraged new member states to embrace economic reality and political stability. There is still much more to be done but, as we celebrate our anniversary this year, we can be proud that our record of achievements suggests the Stockholm Network and its members are well-placed to remain at the cutting edge of debate and influence in the decades to come. Helen Disney, Chief Executive Stockholm Network

Ultimately the Stockholm Network and its member organisations want to achieve the same goal – to make a direct impact on policymaking and to change the direction in which Europe is heading, towards a more competitive and knowledge-based economy. In the past year, we have made several direct contributions to policy including being invited to submit evidence to the UK’s Gowers Review of Intellectual Property, submitting evidence to the Stern review on climate change and to the House of Lords’ report on EU enlargement. But our impact is not confined to the UK – across the whole of Europe, the last 10 years has seen governments experimenting with privatisation of the supply of healthcare, market-based pension reforms, welfare-to-work policies, flat taxes and school choice, all policies advocated and delineated by the Network and its likeminded thinkers. Last but not least, at the EU level, policymakers have introduced the Services Directive, opening the way to a more competitive market in cross-border services, and the push for EU membership has 1

A Year of Activity Increase in the number of Stockholm Network events per year: 1997

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Throughout 2006 and 2007, the Stockholm Network pursued a wide range of policy-orientated activities. We have strengthened our three programmes: Health and Welfare, Energy and the Environment and Intellectual Property and Competition, had our work cited in parliamentary reports, and held many high profile events across Europe. We have also hosted regular public debates in Brussels (the Amigo Society) and London (the Westminster Fringe) as well as launching major publications. Here is a full timeline of our activities and outreach successes for the year.

Stockholm Network holds first roundtable discussion on pension reform

2006 4 MAY Publication of Beyond the Borders - Following the success of The State of the Union, the Stockholm Network released the second half of its pan-European study of the progress of reform. 5 MAY Bridging the Atlantic: A Case for an Open Atlantic Prosperity Area, London – The Stockholm Network and the Fundacion para el Analisis y los Estudios Sociales (FAES) co-hosted a seminar on the topic of transatlantic relations. Featuring Liam Fox MP, shadow defence secretary, Bronwen Maddox, The Times, Prof. Pedro Schwartz, Fundesco and Prof. Francisco Cabrillo, University of Madrid. 5 MAY – 7 MAY Stockholm Network Annual Sponsor Retreat, Windsor, UK – This provided an opportunity to discuss the Stockholm Network’s work in 2005-6, future plans, and the broader evolution of the policy debate in Europe. 17 MAY Publication of Power Failure – The Politics of Power in Western Europe by Sacha Kumaria and Peter Nolan. A comparative study of different European national energy markets.

‘Health consumers are impatient for change’ Helen Disney, Impatient for Change, SN publication, 2004.

23 MAY A Cold Dark Future? London – The Stockholm Network and the Freedom Institute co-hosted a conference to discuss the economic, political and security challenges to Europe’s energy. Featuring, Andrei Illarionov, former economic advisor to President Vladimir Putin of Russia, Dieter Helm, Oxford University, and Edward McBride, The Economist. 24 MAY Publication of A Healthy Market? – Pharmaceuticals, Incentives and Innovation, by Jacob Arfwedson, Stockholm Network.

30 MAY Amigo Society Meeting, Brussels – Water for Sale – Featuring Fredrick Segerfeldt, Cato Institute, Kristof Dewitte, University of Leuven, and Gérard Payen of AQUAFED. 8 JUNE Westminster Fringe debate, London – Blair’s legacy is one of hopes fulfilled, rather than opportunities squandered – with Polly Toynbee, the Guardian, John McFall MP, Anthony Seldon, author of Blair, and Nick Herbert MP. Chaired by John Prideaux, The Economist. 27 JUNE Amigo Society meeting, Brussels – IPRs vs Antitrust. Is there a sensible middle ground? – with Dr Duncan Curley, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, and Manuel Campolini, Stibbe. 27 JUNE The Stockholm Network made a submission to the House of Lords’ EU Select Committee Report on The Further Enlargement of the EU: Threat or Opportunity? 11 AUGUST Publication of Patient Mobility in Europe: Filling the void where public systems fail, by Magdalene Rosenmöller. 13 SEPTEMBER Publication of The process of National IP Policy Making:Theory, Practice, and Policy Lessons, by Prof. Michael Blakeney. 15 SEPTEMBER The Stockholm Network is commended at Prospect Think Tank of the Year Awards. 18 SEPTEMBER Westminster Fringe debate, London – We must embrace nuclear power to solve global warming – featuring Dr Patrick Moore, Greenspirit, Dr Caroline Lucas MEP, Green Party, Prof.Tim Jackson, Sustainable Development Commission. Chaired by Vijay Vaitheeswaran, The Economist.

Putin becomes Prime Minister of Russia

26 SEPTEMBER Amigo Society meeting, Brussels – Patient mobility in Europe: Filling the void where public systems fail – Featuring Rudi Thomaes, Belgian Federation of Enterprise and Johan Hjertqvist, Health Consumer Powerhouse. 2 OCTOBER Publication of A Healthy Market? - The European Dental Market: Braced for Change? by Roger Matthews. 3 OCTOBER Russian Energy – Crisis or Opportunity for Europe? – The Stockholm Network co-hosted this fringe event at the Conservative Party Conference with the EU-Russia Centre,The event featured Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, Conservatives’ security policy review group, Paul Domjan, Stockholm Network energy fellow and former energy adviser to EUCOM, and Dr Fraser Cameron, EU-Russia Centre. 16 OCTOBER Publication of Innovation, intellectual property and competition: A legal and policy perspective by Dr Duncan Curley. 16 OCTOBER Helen Disney, chief executive of the Stockholm Network, went to Washington to speak at a number of events focused around healthcare reform, including a Capitol Hill Conference, co-hosted by the Institute for Policy Innovation, International Policy Network, the Heritage Foundation and the Galen Institute. 24 OCTOBER Launch of Coincidence or Crisis? Prescription Medicine Counterfeiting London – A book describing the growing threat to European citizens of counterfeit medicines entering the legitimate supply chain. Featuring editor Peter Pitts and co-author David Taylor, chaired by Dr Ian Gibson MP.

25 OCTOBER Launch of Coincidence or Crisis? Berlin – co-hosted with the IUF featuring Peter Pitts.

Property, Prof. Martin Campbell-Kelly, Warwick University, Dr Thomas Lenard, Progress and Freedom Foundation.

25 OCTOBER IPRs, SMEs and Public Private Partnerships – Climbing up the value chain, Geneva – The Stockholm Network co-hosted a joint event with the WIPO Division on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises at the WIPO headquarters in Geneva. Speakers included Guriqbal Singh Jaiya, WIPO, Dr Cathy Garner, Manchester Knowledge Capital, Dr Nikolaus Thumm, Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, Dr Itzhak Zaidise, Sheba Medical Centre, Dr Meir Pugatch, Stockholm Network.

15 NOVEMBER The Stockholm Network hosted a private dinner with the American Legislative Exchange Council, London – US state leaders, Members of Parliament, industry and think tank representatives and tax experts attended this event which discussed how best to deliver limited government through the tax system.

31 OCTOBER Amigo Society meeting, Brussels – Does the EU energy market need more deregulation? Speakers included Jeremy Nicholson, director of the Energy Intensive Users Group, and Herbert Ungerer, director at DG Competition for the European Commission.

21 NOVEMBER Westminster Fringe debate, London – David Cameron is Just a Blue-Rinsed Tony Blair – Featuring Peter Hitchens, the Mail on Sunday, Jesse Norman, Policy Exchange, Ian Kearns IPPR, Prof. Dennis Kavanagh and Johnny Grimond, The Economist. 22 NOVEMBER The Stockholm Network co-hosted a lunch with Verizon to discuss Europe’s Digital Future.

31 OCTOBER The UK government’s Stern Review on climate change is released, to which the Stockholm Network submitted a report outlining the necessity of findings of the Putting the Environment in Perspective Poll.

23 NOVEMBER The Stockholm Network’s Memorandum by Simon Moore, featured in the House of Lords report by the European Union Committee entitled Further Enlargement of the EU:Threat or Opportunity?

2 NOVEMBER Publication of Staying in Neutral: European Implications of the Network Neutrality Debate, by Simon Moore, a study into potential pitfalls facing the Internet in Europe.

1 DECEMBER Launch of An Economic Analysis of DG Competition Discussion Paper on the Application of Article 82, by Prof. Brian Hindley – This forms part of the Stockholm Network’s Intellectual Property Experts’ Series.

14 NOVEMBER Launch of Stockholm Network IP-IT Index, Brussels – Dr Meir Pugatch, Stockholm Network, in association with Managing Intellectual Property Magazine and the Progress & Freedom Foundation has developed a new and innovative statistical index aimed at measuring the strength of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in the IT sector in different countries. Speakers included: James Nurton, Managing Intellectual

5 DECEMBER Stockholm Network recommendations feature in the Gowers Review on Intellectual Property.

Stockholm Network publishes Millennium Doom

Millennium 6 DECEMBER Amigo Society meeting, Brussels – A Market for Education:The Swedish Experience – Featuring Per Unckel, former minister of education in Sweden, Etienne Verhack, secretary general of the European Committee for Catholic Education, and Stephen Pollard, Centre for New Europe. 6 DECEMBER Launch of Coincidence or Crisis? Prescription Medicine Counterfeiting, Brussels – Featuring Peter Pitts and Graham Satchwell. 7 DECEMBER Launch of Coincidence or Crisis?, Prescription Medicine Counterfeiting Stockholm – Featuring Peter Pitts and Graham Satchwell. 10 DECEMBER Launch of Coincidence or Crisis? Prescription Medicine Counterfeiting, Rome – Featuring Graham Satchwell. 15 JANUARY Launch of The Economics of Competition Policy and Dominant Market Position, by Prof. Federico Etro.This outlines some of the recent developments in the economics of competition policy with particular reference to dominant market positions. 23 JANUARY Amigo Society event, Brussels – Globalised markets: a force for good or evil? Featuring Charles Gave, GaveKal and Philippe Gijsels, Fortis Bank Belgium. 30 JANUARY The Stockholm Network co-hosted a discussion on the Gowers Review of Intellectual Protection in the UK with Lovells and Managing Intellectual Property magazine. Speaking at the event were Andrew Gowers, author of the report, Justice Pumfrey patents court judge, Robert Anderson, partner, Lovells, Steve Rowan,The Patent Office, Roger Burt, IBM Europe, Dominic McGonigal, PPL/VPL, and Dr Meir Pugatch, Stockholm Network. 4

31 JANUARY Launch of A Healthy Market? Series: Public Private Realities in Healthcare: An Analysis of European Hospitals, by Dr Tim Evans. 20 FEBRUARY The Stockholm Network co-hosted Debating Pharmaceutical IPRs, Geneva – this event was co-hosted by UNCTAD and the Stockholm Network. Featuring Kiyoshi Adachi, UNCTAD, Dr Graham Dutfield, Queen Mary University Eric Noehrenberg, IFPMA, Helen Disney, Dr Meir Pugatch, James Love, Knowledge Ecology International and Christoph Spennemann, UNCTAD. 28 FEBRUARY Launch of Unlocking Ideas, assembles the highlights of the Stockholm Network Amigo Society gatherings in Brussels and provides exciting new insights for the reformers of the future.

‘The European social model ... is not the solution to our problems, it is the problem’, Johnny Munkhammar, European Dawn – After the Social Model, 2005.

In the Press Rome conference on the underground economy

Through its extensive programme of outreach to the print, broadcast and digital media, the Stockholm Network and its ideas have reached the eyes and ears of millions of Europeans and others further a field.

2006 10 APRIL Pharma Marketletter reported on the Stockholm Network’s study, Cholesterol: The Public Policy Implications of not Doing Enough. 30 APRIL Terry O’Dwyer raised concerns about healthcare system reform in the UK in the Guardian. 10 MAY Anne Jensen criticised Attac’s view on the European Services Directive in an article for the Norwegian web based news site politisk.no. 17 MAY Stockholm Network energy expert Peter Nolan analysed the state of Ireland’s energy markets for the Wall Street Journal Europe. 18 MAY The Independent included coverage of the Stockholm Network’s poll, Putting the Environment in Perspective, showing public opinion to be sharply divided over nuclear power. 23 MAY Sacha Kumaria’s article on Russian energy exports was featured in Human Events. 26 MAY Spanish financial weekly Expansion gave coverage to the Stockholm Network’s Impatient for Change. 1 JUNE The World Today ran a piece from Sacha Kumaria on Russian energy and the G8 summit.

‘Lisbon is a big failure’, Romano Prodi, European Commission president, 2005.

The Genoa Summit protest

5 JUNE FDI Magazine featured an op-ed from Dr Meir Pugatch on the European Commission’s ongoing legal battle with Microsoft. 23 JUNE Italy’s Milano Finanza reported on how Emma Bonino, former Italian minister and EU commissioner, is inspired by the growth of pan-European think tanks in London and Brussels, and their policy contribution to European reform. 23 JUNE Stockholm Network CEO Helen Disney assessed the state of UK politics for Public Finance. 30 JUNE Anne Jensen wrote in the Guardian about direct to consumer pharmaceutical advertising. 2 JULY Peter Nolan discussed Stockholm Network report Power Failure in the Business. 13 JULY Sacha Kumaria wrote to the Independent regarding Russia’s energy machinations. 17 JULY The IP-IT Index, developed by Stockholm Network’s Head of IP and Competition, Meir Pugatch, was featured in MIP Magazine. 21 JULY Giuseppe Pennisi commented in Il Tempo on the Stockholm Network’s publication Europe needs Saving. 9 AUGUST Helen Disney’s prescription for ‘curing’ European healthcare systems was featured in the Wall Street Journal Europe.

2 JUNE Anne Jensen wrote about the problems of cultural relativism in an article for the Norwegian web based news site politisk.no. 5

Dublin conference on the European Constitution

14 AUGUST Newsweek ran a profile of the European market-oriented think tank movement, featuring an interview with Stockholm Network Chief Executive Helen Disney. 15 AUGUST Peter Pitts, editor of Stockholm Network publication Coincidence or Crisis reported the book’s findings to the Baltimore Sun. 18 AUGUST Anne Jensen criticised the European left’s misguided support for terrorist organisations such as Hamas and Hezbollah at politisk.no. 25 AUGUST The Financial Times reported the gains that European libertarians, including the Stockholm Network, have made in recent years. 27 AUGUST The Business featured the findings of the Stockholm Network’s Putting the Environment in Perspective poll, which found that the public are more concerned about terrorism than about the environment. 31 AUGUST Spanish publication Tendencias de Futuro profiled The Stockholm Network in the August edition of its newsletter.The report also featured an in-depth interview with Stockholm Network chief executive Helen Disney about the think tank movement in general. 7 SEPTEMBER The Brussels Journal referenced Impatient for Change when arguing that patients are not happy with the European healthcare systems. 10 SEPTEMBER Pharmaceutical Executive Europe included an op-ed from Dr Meir Pugatch on the state on pharmaceutical patenting. 13 SEPTEMBER Following a large cardiovascular conference held in Spain, MedicinaTV.com discussed the 6

findings of the Stockholm Network’s publication, Cholesterol, in regard to Spain’s growing cholesterol problem. 13 SEPTEMBER An article in the National Review used Impatient for Change to demonstrate the perils of nationalised healthcare. 26 SEPTEMBER The Stockholm Network was among think tanks commended by judges at Prospect Magazine’s Think Tank of the Year awards.

17 DECEMBER The Press-Gazette and others ran coverage of Helen Disney’s presentation at a congressional briefing on European healthcare systems. 20 DECEMBER Dr Meir Pugatch, author of the Index, explained to Managing Intellectual Property how the Stockholm Network IP Index was compiled, and discussed some of its findings.

2007

30 SEPTEMBER Managing Intellectual Property covered the Stockholm Network event ‘Do IP rights represent a barrier to innovation or an engine for growth for SMEs?’

18 JANUARY The Financial Times featured a letter from Simon Moore expressing his hopes and fears for the European Commission’s attempts at energy market liberalisation.

5 OCTOBER Sacha Kumaria’s article on Russian energy politics featured in FDI Magazine.

31 JANUARY Anne Jensen reported on proceedings at WIPO’s Global Congress for NGOWatch.

16 OCTOBER Dr Meir Pugatch, head of the Stockholm Network IP and Competition Programme, talked to Pharma Marketletter about generic drugmakers and biosimilars.

31 JANUARY Anne Jensen wrote for the Norwegian liberal journal, Minerva, about David Cameron and his first months as leader of the Opposition.

31 OCTOBER IP Watch covered the Stockholm Network/ WIPO conference on the abilities of small companies to use IP to carve out niche markets. 10 NOVEMBER Public Finance featured an op-ed from Helen Disney on public sector pay. 10 NOVEMBER Stockholm Network research fellow Jacob Arfwedson wrote for the Financial Times on France’s need for market oriented reform. 7 DECEMBER The launch of the Stockholm Network’s Coincidence or Crisis drew a great deal of publicity in Sweden.The launch was reported in 29 national and regional newspapers.

31 JANUARY Stockholm Network energy fellow, Paul Domjan, spoke about Russia’s energy policy in Contingency Today. 12 FEBRUARY Paul Domjan spoke to Petroleum Argus about US energy security policy. 13 FEBRUARY The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel featured an interview with Helen Disney about the respective merits of various European healthcare systems. 16 FEBRUARY Helen Disney had an op-ed featured in Public Finance about the Food Standards Agency.

Publications

The Euro is introduced

Stockholm Network publications in 2006 and early 2007 spanned a range of topics including European competition policy, counterfeit pharmaceuticals, pension reform, patient mobility, energy market deregulation in Europe and market oriented reform in the countries bordering the European Union. Our publications also included 10 issues of Know IP – the monthly IP bulletin, and quarterly issues of Eye on Europe.

Madrid conference on immigration and the labour market

Information to Patients by Peter Pitts (published 2006) In this paper, Peter Pitts, a former commissioner at the Food and Drug Administration, analyses the role that industry should play in the provision of information to patients.

Beyond the Borders by Simon Moore (ed.) (published 2006) Following the success of The State of the Union, the Stockholm Network presents the second half of its pan-European study of the progress of reform. Beyond the Borders examines the progress of reform in the eighteen European countries that currently lie outside the borders of the European Union.

‘Its time to defuse the pensions time bomb.’ Europe Needs Saving, SN publication, 2006.

Pharmaceuticals, Incentives and Innovation by Jacob Arfwedson (published 2006) In this paper, Jacob Arfwedson examines the role that the market should play in the world of pharmaceuticals. He argues that a fundamentally new approach is needed – an approach that allows innovators to innovate, that limits government regulation to only those cases in which it is truly necessary and that allows the market to create the right incentives for a competitive and efficient market for medicines. British and European Worker Mutuality in Healthcare by Dr Tim Evans (published 2006) At a time when many European politicians are searching for new ideas to encourage more sustainable forms of solidarity in healthcare, this paper by Dr Tim Evans argues that there are a wide range of historic and existing institutional arrangements in civil society which they should fully examine.

Power Failure – The Politics of Energy in Western Europe by Peter Nolan & Sacha Kumaria (ed.) (published 2006) Power Failure – The Politics of Energy in Western Europe is an examination of the progress of liberalisation in the six major Western European energy markets – France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. 7

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Europe Needs Saving: Defusing the Pensions Time Bomb by Terry O’Dwyer (ed.), Matthew Bishop, Liam Halligan, L. Jacobo Rodríguez, (published 2006) Internationally renowned experts on pensions have contributed to this publication in an attempt to answer some of the most difficult questions facing us today: Should pay-as-yougo systems be tweaked only slightly? Is there a role for the market in providing pensions? If so, how extensive should that role be? What are the benefits to the citizen? And what are the benefits to the government?

Patient Mobility in Europe: Filling the Void where Public Systems Fail by Magdalene Rosenmöller (published 2006) Patient mobility is, in various exciting ways, fostering innovations in the way health care is provided and managed in European health systems. In this paper, the author shows that the use of the private sector in this area could potentially bring substantial benefits to patients/citizens and policy-makers.

Europe’s welfare burden conference

The Process of National IP Policy Making:Theory, Practice and Policy Lessons by Prof. Michael Blakeney (published 2006) In this paper, which was the first in the Stockholm Network Experts’ Series on Intellectual Property and Competition, Prof. Blakeney looks at how IP has applications across many different human activities: industry, commerce, health, nutrition, communications and culture.

The European Dental Market Braced for Change? by Dr Roger Matthews (published 2006) The paper looks at the role of private markets in the provision of healthcare in Europe and addresses such questions as: What is the meaning behind a consumer driven healthcare system? What role has the private sector played in healthcare and what has it contributed? Where does the market succeed and where does it fail?

Innovation, Intellectual Property and Competition: A Legal and Policy Perspective by Dr Duncan Curley (published 2006) In the second instalment of The Stockholm Network’s IP Experts’ Series, Dr Duncan Curley looks at the role of European legislation in fostering a climate of competitive innovation and intellectual property.

Coincidence or Crisis: Prescription Medicine Counterfeiting by Peter Pitts (ed.), Jonathan Harper, Julian Morris, Graham Satchwell, Philip Stevens, David Taylor and Michael Tremblay (published 2006) This collection of essays analyses the business of creating, distributing and selling counterfeit medicines, which is an unregulated, criminal and growing part of the global economy.

‘We want work and we want honest jobs. Our minds and our hands will be our keep.’ Viktor Yushchenko, president of the Ukraine, 2004.

Publication of An Apology for Capitalism

Expansion of EU to 25 member states

Staying in Neutral: European Implications of the Network Neutrality Debate by Simon Moore (published 2006) This paper looks at the ‘network neutrality’ debate which has taken place in the USA, and its potential impact on European lawmakers.

The Economics of Competition Policy and Dominant Market Position by Prof. Federico Etro (published 2007) The paper outlines some of the recent developments in the economics of competition policy with particular reference to dominant market positions.

An Economic Analysis of DG Competition Discussion Paper on the Application of Article 82 by Prof. Brian Hindley (published 2006) In this paper Prof. Brian Hindley argues that an efficient competition policy will pursue abuses so long as the cost of correcting them is less than the expected gain from the correction. The more strained the arguments used by a competition authority become, and the more complicated the computations it must perform to further its pursuit of virtue, the stronger the ground for doubt that it is attempting to follow that rational rule.

Public Private Realities in Healthcare: An Analysis of European Hospitals by Dr Tim Evans (published 2007) This paper provides an analysis of European health systems in the United Kingdom, Italy, Sweden, Slovakia, France, Belgium, Germany, Finland, Portugal and Switzerland. In exploring the varying degrees of private involvement in different countries’ hospital sectors it provides an overview of the diversity that is healthcare provision in today’s Europe.

Unlocking Ideas: Essays from the Amigo Society Unlocking Ideas assembles the highlights of the Amigo Society debates over the past two years and provides exciting new insights for the reformers of the future

Know IP – Stockholm Network’s Monthly IP Bulletin by Dr Meir Pugatch and Helen Disney (eds) In this monthly IP bulletin, a range of topics have been investigated including digital rights management; IPRs, development and access to medicines; the Gowers Review on IP; the uses and abuses of compulsory licenses; small and medium sized enterprises and IPRs and much more.

Eye on Europe The Stockholm Network’s quarterly newsletter.

‘A great deal is occurring beyond the borders of the EU. It should not be neglected.’ Simon Moore, Beyond the Borders, 2006. 9

An Expanding Team

The Stockholm Network now has six full time members of staff and five part-time staff dedicated to managing its events, editing its publications, writing articles and ensuring that the Network’s members are engaged and connected more effectively than ever before. Amongst those new staff members are fellows who bring outside policy expertise to our three programmes: Energy and the Environment, Intellectual Property and Competition and Health and Welfare. We also have a media team who work on expanding our presence in the media.

Helen Disney is the chief executive and founder of the Stockholm Network, which was set up in 1997 to bring together Europe’s leading market-oriented policymakers and thinkers. Her professional background is in think tanks and the media. Formerly an editorial writer for The Times and an editorial writer and commentator for the Daily Express, she continues to write regularly on a range of public policy topics for newspapers, magazines and websites. Helen’s cuttings include Newsweek, the Financial Times, The Times, the Daily Express and Sunday Express, Public Finance magazine, Public Service Magazine, the Sprout magazine, CNE Health.org and a range of trade press articles. She has also appeared on TV and in radio debates including ‘Heart of the Matter’, ‘Kilroy’, BBC News, BBC Radio Scotland, Radio 4’s ‘Talking Politics’ and the BBC World Service. From 1996-2000, she worked at the Social Market Foundation, an independent pro-market think-tank in Westminster, where she was Deputy Director and Editor of The Review, a quarterly journal. She has contributed to and edited a number of think-tank publications including Impatient for Change, Poles Apart? and An Apology for Capitalism? published by the Stockholm Network. She is a fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, and speaks fluent French and Italian. She is married with a son, Rudi, and lives and works in London Paul Domjan is energy fellow at the Stockholm Network. He is a senior consultant at John Howell and Company, Ltd, where he leads the risk and security practice. He served previously as the first energy security advisor to the US European Command where he developed an energy security strategy for the US European Command for Europe, Eurasia, and Africa. He was responsible for coordinating US energy security policy in this area with other elements in the Department of Defense, other agencies of the US government, foreign governments, major energy companies and civil society organisations. Prior to this appointment, Paul was deputy political analyst in the scenario planning group at Royal Dutch/Shell, where he was responsible for political issues in Europe,

Eurasia, the Middle East, and North America. He worked extensively on European and Eurasia energy transportation issues and developed the political scenarios that drove Shell’s gas strategy analysis systems for Eurasia and North East Asia. He has consulted on supplier development in the oil and gas industry for the World Bank. He is now an advisor on these issues to the National Bank of Kazakhstan. Mr. Domjan is currently a British Marshall Scholar at Wolfson College, University of Oxford specialising in the political and economic geography of oil and gas producing countries Dr Tim Evans is the Stockholm Network’s director of development. He works across the spectrum of policy issues to ensure that the Stockholm Network continues to promote its work and develop support across a range of constituencies and interests. A former president and director general of the Centre for the New Europe (2002-2005), between 1993 and early 2002 he was the executive director of Public Affairs at the Independent Healthcare Association. Between 1991 and 1992 he was the Head of the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit in the Slovak Republic.The author of numerous books, monographs and articles, he holds a PhD in political sociology from the London School of Economics and over the years has been published by the Adam Smith Institute, Centre for the New Europe, the Fabian Society, Institute of Economic Affairs, the Fraser Institute, Libertarian Alliance, Heritage Foundation, and the Independent Healthcare Association. Francesca Ficai is senior researcher and joined The Stockholm Network in October 2006 after working for two Labour MPs in Westminster. Her professional career started at the European Commission where she worked for the DG Regional Policy. She then moved to London and worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers in the tax department. She also has experience in market research and journalism. She graduated from La Sorbonne University (Paris) in Political Science and International Relations and holds a Masters from the University of Bath in European Politics.

Shane Frith is the managing director. He has worked for a number of London based thinktanks, including Reform, Open Europe and the Centre for Policy Studies, since moving from his native New Zealand. He is also the founder and director of Doctors’ Alliance, a panEuropean network of medical professionals seeking better ways to deliver healthcare. He has regularly appeared on television and radio in New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom, including BBC Politics Show, Bloomberg TV and BBC Radio. From 2002 until 2004 Shane was Chairman of the International Young Democrat Union, an organisation that links young people involved in centre-right politics. He has been a parliamentary candidate for the New Zealand National Party and has worked as a consultant for a number of New Zealand Members of Parliament. Jacob Arfwedson is a research fellow at the Stockholm Network and a freelance writer and consultant to think tanks in Europe and the USA. He has worked as international press editor at the french prime minister’s information office; director of events and publications at the French free-market think tank Institut EURO 92; research director at the World Association of Newspapers; managing editor of the website Executip.com; and consultant in media relations at the OECD. Simon Moore is research officer and joined the Stockholm Network in early 2006 following the completion of a successful internship period. In addition to research work for the IP and energy programmes, Simon edited Beyond the Borders, a companion piece to The Stockholm Network’s State of the Union publication, focusing this time on marketoriented reform in non-EU member states in Europe. Simon holds a bachelors degree in politics from Lancaster University, where he was awarded the Frank Cass/Oakeshott prize for best overall performance in political theory and comparative politics. Katie Perrior is the media director of the Stockholm Network. She joined us in July 2005 to help promote our work in the British, European and International media. She is the

co-founder and director of iNHouse PR. Katie acted as a media consultant to the award winning television programme,‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’, and has worked for several politicians, most notably the Conservative Party Chairman and the Shadow Home Secretary during high profile campaigns. She has also worked for ITV and Channel 4 News and is current the Cabinet Member for Community Affairs in Bexley London Borough. Dr Meir Pugatch is the director of research and also heads the Intellectual Property and Competition Programme. He is based at the University of Haifa in Israel and specialises in the fields of intellectual property policy, management and exploitation of knowledge assets, technology transfer and entrepreneurship. He has completed his B.A. studies in 1997 at the University of Tel-Aviv and received his MSc. degree from the London School of Economics in 1998. He was awarded his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics in July 2002. He is the author and editor of an extensive number of publications including: The Intellectual Property Debate: Perspectives from Law, Economics and Political Economy, Measuring the Strength of National Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property Regimes: Creating a New Pharmaceutical IP Index”, Journal of World Intellectual Property, vol. 9:4 ;“Political Economy of Intellectual Property Policy-Making:Theory and Practice”, Journal of World Investment and Trade, vol. 7:2.. Susie Squire has joined the Stockholm Network in February 2007, as office manager, after completing an internship. Susie holds a 2:1 Bachelors double major in Political Philosophy and English Literature and a 1st class Masters in English from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her Masters thesis, which deals with the politics of terrorism and collective consciousness, is currently undergoing editing with a view to being published in late 2007. Susie has been published in several newspapers and academic journals, including New Contrast, Africa Today and various Condé Nast publications.

Most recently Susie was chief consultant on two community based projects which work with HIV/AIDS education, rape crises and the economic empowerment of single mothers. Cara Walker is the head of communications. She is responsible for communicating the work of the Stockholm Network, mainly through the coordination and management of the Network’s events and publications. In addition to this, she is responsible for press and media coordination. After graduating with a 2:1 in Ancient History from Bristol University, she was appointed as Iain Duncan Smith’s constituency secretary. She then went on to become the director of the Atlantic Bridge, a free market transatlantic think tank, after which she worked for Michael Howard, during the last general election, forming part of his campaign team which toured the UK. Later on she worked for the Parliamentary Resources Unit, where her research primarily focused on foreign affairs, international development and defence. Cara has recently returned from a year in Sydney where she worked in consumer public relations.

‘A spectre is haunting Europe. It is the gospel of free markets loosed from chains’, Helen Disney, Capitalist Manifesto, Newsweek, 2006.

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103 84

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Increase in number of SN think tank members: In 1997, the Stockholm Network had five think tank members By 2007, the Stockholm Network has over130 members

1 Adam Smith Institute www.adamsmith.org

United Kingdom 2 Adam Smith Society www.adamsmith.it

Italy 3 Adriatic Institute for Public Policy www.adriaticinstitute.org

Croatia 4 Albanian Liberal Institute www.liberalb.org

Albania 5 Anders Chydenius Foundation www.chydenius.net

Finland 6 Association for Liberal Thinking www.liberal-dt.org.tr

Turkey 7 Association for Modern Economy www.ame.org.mk

Macedonia 8 Avenir Suisse www.avenir-suisse.ch

Switzerland 9 Bulgarian Society for Individual Liberty www.libertarium.net

Bulgaria 10 Captus www.captus.nu

Sweden 11 Causa Liberal www.causaliberal.net

Portugal 12 Centre for Economic Development www.ced.bg

Bulgaria 13 Centre for Economic Development www.cphr.sk

Slovakia 14 Centre for Economics and Politics cepin.cz

Czech Republic 15 Centre for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development www.visit-ceed.org

Montenegro 16 Centre for European Policy www.cep.eu

Germany 17 Centre for European Reform www.cer.org.uk

United Kingdom 18 Centre for Institutional Analysis and Development www.cadi.ro

21 Centre for Policy Studies www.cps.org.uk

United Kingdom 22 Centre for Political Thought www.omp.org.pl

Poland 23 Centre for Research into Post-Communist Economies www.crce.org.uk

United Kingdom 24 Centre for Social and Economic Research www.case.com.pl

Poland 25 Centre for the New Europe www.cne.org

Belgium 26 Centre for the Study of Democracy www.csd.bg

Bulgaria 27 Centro Einaudi www.centroeinaudi.it

Italy 28 Centrum im. Adama Smitha www.smith.pl

Poland 29 CEPOS www.cepos.dk

Denmark 30 Cercles Liberaux www.cerclesliberaux.com

France 31 Civic Institute www.obcinst.cz

Czech Republic 32 Civita www.civita.no

Norway 33 Civitas www.civitas.org.uk

United Kingdom 34 Club 2015 www.club2015.org

Bosnia 35 Conservative Institute of M. R. Stefanik www.institute.sk

Slovakia 36 Council on Public Policy www.council.uni-bayreuth.de

Germany 37 E.G.West Centre UK www.ncl.ac.uk/egwest

United Kingdom 38 ECIPE www.ecipe.org

Belgium 39 Economic Policy Research Institute www.epri-macedonia.org

Macedonia 40 Ekome (Society for Social and Economic Studies) www.ekome.gr

Romania 19 Centre for Liberal Strategies

Greece 41 Eudoxa

www.cls-sofia.org

Sweden 42 Euro 92

Bulgaria 20 Centre for LiberalDemocratic Studies www.clds.org.yu

Serbia

www.eudoxa.se

Angela Merkel is elected German Chancellor

43 European Ideas Network www.epped.org/europeanideasnetwork

Belgium 44 EVA www.eva.fi

Finland 45 F. A. Hayek Institute www.hayek-institut.at

Austria 46 FAES www.fundacionfaes.org

Spain 47 Fondation pour l’innovation politique www.fondapol.org

France 48 Foundation for Market Economy www.fme.hu

Hungary 49 Friedrich August von Hayek Stiftung www.hayek-stiftung.de

Germany 50 Frédéric Bastiat Stichting www.bastiatstichting.nl

The Netherlands 51 FREE (Forum Rozwoju Edukacji Ekonomicznej) www.free.org.pl

Poland 52 Free Market Centre www.fmc.org.yu

Serbia 53 Free Minds Association Azerbaijan 54 Friedrich Naumann Stiftung www.fnst.de

Germany 55 Friedrich von Hayek Gesellschaft www.hayek.de

Germany 56 Fundacio Catalunya Oberta www.catalunyaoberta.net

Spain 57 Gdansk Institute for Market Economics www.ibngr.edu.pl

Poland 58 Hamburg Institute for International Economics www.hwwi.org

Germany 59 Hayek Foundation www.hayek.ru

Russia 60 Health Consumer Powerhouse www.healthpowerhouse.com

Belgium 61 Health Policy Institute www.hpi.sk

Slovakia 62 Health Reform.cz www.healthreform.cz

Czech Republic 63 Hellenic Leadership Institute

www.euro92.com

www.hli.gr

France

Greece

64 iFRAP (French Institute for Research into Public Administration) www.ifrap.org

France 65 INEKO www.ineko.sk/english

Slovakia 66 Institución Futuro www.institucionfuturo.org

Spain 67 Institut Constant de Rebecque www.institutconstant.ch

Switzerland 68 Institut Economique Molinari www.institutmolinari.org

Belgium 69 Institut Hayek www.fahayek.org

Belgium 70 Institut Montaigne www.institutmontaigne.org

France 71 Institut Turgot www.turgot.org

France 72 Institute for Economic Studies Europe www.ies-europe.org

France 73 Institute for Free Enterprise www.unternehmerische-freiheit.de

Germany 74 Institute for Free Society www.isloboda.sk

Slovakia 75 Institute for Market Economics www.ime-bg.org

Bulgaria 76 Institute for Strategic Studies and Prognosis www.isspm.org

Montenegro 77 Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security www.itdis.org

Hungary 78 Institute of Economic Affairs www.iea.org.uk

United Kingdom 79 Institute of Economic and Social Studies www.iness.sk

Slovakia 80 Instituto Juan de Mariana www.juandemariana.org

Spain 81 Instytut Globalizacji www.globalizacja.org

Poland 82 Instytut LiberalnoKonserwatywny www.ilk.lublin.pl

Poland 83 International Policy Network www.policynetwork.net

United Kingdom 84 Intertic

85 Istituto Acton www.acton.org

Italy 86 Istituto Bruno Leoni www.brunoleoni.it

Italy 87 Jerusalem Instiute for Market Studies www.jims-israel.org

Israel 88 Liberales Institut eng.libinst.ch

Switzerland 89 Liberalni Institute www.libinst.cz

Czech Republic 90 Libertarian Alliance www.libertarian.co.uk

United Kingdom 91 Libertas www.libertas.dk

Denmark 92 Liberté Chérie www.liberte-cherie.com

France 93 Liberty Ideas www.liberalismus.at

Austria 94 Lithuanian Free Market Institute www.freema.org

Lithuania 95 Ludwig von Mises Institute Europe www.vonmisesinstitute-europe.org

Belgium 96 Ludwig von Mises Institute Poland www.mises.pl

Poland 97 Ludwig von Mises Institute Romania www.misesromania.org

Romania 98 M.E.S.A. 10 www.mesa10.sk

Slovakia 99 Magna Carta Foundation www.magna-carta.it

Italy 100 New Economic School www.economics.ge

Georgia 101 New Social Market Economy Foundation www.insm.de

Germany 102 Nova Civitas www.novacivitas.org

Belgium 103 Nova Res Publica www.novarespublica.org

Italy 104 Nurses for Reform www.nursesforreform.com

UK 105 Open Europe www.openeurope.org.uk

United Kingdom 106 Open Republic Institute www.openrepublic.org

Ireland 107 Poder Limitado

www.intertic.org

www.poderlimitado.org

Italy

Spain

108 Policy Exchange www.policyexchange.org.uk

United Kingdom 109 Policy Institute www.policyinstitute.info

UK 110 Politeia www.politeia.co.uk

United Kingdom 111 Project Empowerment www.project-empowerment.org

United Kingdom 112 Ratio Institute www.ratioinstitutet.nu

Sweden 113 Reform www.reform.co.uk

United Kingdom 114 Riinvest Institute for Development Research www.riinvestinstitute.org

Kosovo 115 Romania Think Tank www.thinktankromania.ro

Romania 116 RSE (Centre for Social and Economic Research) www.rse.is

Iceland 117 Sauvegarde Retraites www.sauvegarde-retraites.org

France 118 SME Union www.sme-union.cz

Czech Republic 119 Sobieski Institute www.sobieski.org.pl Poland 120 Social Affairs Unit www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk

United Kingdom 121 Stiftung Ordnungspolitik www.sop-cep.de

Germany 122 Stiftung Marktwirtschaft www.stiftung-marktwirtschaft.de

Germany 123 Taxpayers’ Alliance www.taxpayersalliance.com

United Kingdom 124 The Copenhagen Institute www.coin.dk

Denmark 125 The F.A. Hayek Foundation www.hayek.sk

Slovakia 126 Thomas More Institute www.institut-thomas-more.org

Belgium 127 Timbro www.timbro.se

Sweden 128 Venezie Institute www.venezie.org

Italy 129 Veritas www.veritas-iceland.com

Iceland 130 Walter Eucken Institut www.eucken.de

Germany 131 Work For All www.workforall.org

Leuven

Members Poll 2006/2007

SN publishes ‘Does the West Know Best?’

Media Hits (per year) Congratulations to Stockholm Network members who achieved over 25,000 media hits in 2006.

Publicising Think Tank Activities We asked our members by what means they publicise their think tank activities. The results showed that 47% of our members publicise via blogs, and 23% use RSS Feeds and 7% stream their events live over the Internet.

Of these, 14% of respondents received at least 500 media hits per year, while 26% achieved the equivalent of one media hit per day.’

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The Stockholm Network, in conjunction with Populus, the pollsters for The Times and a regular collaborator in Stockholm Network publications, carried out a poll among our think tank members to ascertain an accurate picture of the size of market-orientated reform movement in Europe, and the impact that we are all having on the political debate.

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The Stockholm Network site is flourishing, with visitor numbers increasing every month, allowing the Network to inform more and more people about the activities of the Network and its members, and about market orientated reform across Europe.

‘The pro-market movement has definitely reached critical mass’, Helen Disney, Capitalist Manifesto, Newsweek, 2006.

Supporters

The Stockholm Network’s 10 year anniversary

The Stockholm Network was launched ten years ago with just five member think tanks. This number has now grown to more than 130, and with most European countries represented in the Network its think tanks now lead the way when it comes to developing new and innovative policy solutions that are vital for the future of every nation. Today, the Stockholm Network supports its think tanks across a wide range of collaborative projects and facilitates access to experts throughout the world. Moreover, being a pan-European think tank in its own right it not only addresses important issues facing all nations of Europe but also specialises in competitiveness and intellectual property, energy and the environment and health and welfare. While in 2007 our work is kindly supported by many sponsors, both corporate and private, we are mindful that there is so much more we can do with additional resources. If you would like to become a supporter then please do not hesitate to contact me at tim@stockholm-network.org. We have ambitious plans for the year ahead to build upon the work of the last ten. With your help, we can make these plans a reality. Dr Tim Evans Director of development Stockholm Network

PLATINUM • Personal & regular access to the Stockholm Network’s executive team • Complimentary invitation to annual sponsors retreat with policy experts and opinion formers • Invitations to the Stockholm Network City lunches with senior business leaders • Access to materials and scholars from Stockholm Network • Updates from chief executive • All Stockholm Network books & publications • Weekly Stockholm Network e-mail updates • Invitations to all Stockholm Network events & activities • Quarterly summary & newsletter GOLD • Invitation to annual sponsors retreat with policy experts and opinion formers • Access to materials and scholars from Stockholm Network • Updates from Chief Executive • All Stockholm Network books & publications • Weekly Stockholm Network e-mail updates • Invitations to all Stockholm Network events & activities • Quarterly summary & newsletter SILVER • All Stockholm Network books & publications • Weekly Stockholm Network e-mail updates • Invitations to select Stockholm Network events & activities • Quarterly summary & newsletter • Annual Report BRONZE • Weekly Stockholm Network e-mail updates • Invitations to select Stockholm Network events & activities • Quarterly summary & newsletter • Selected books & publications

Amazon EU Beacon Books Bertrams Books BGN Distributie Blackwell’s Book Service UK Blackwell’s Business & Law Bookshop Bookshop J Story Scientia BUPA Burson Marsteller Civita A/S Coronet Books Inc Daunt Books Dawson Books DEA S.p.A. The Economist Eli Lilly Elisa Kangaskoski Erasmus Booksellers EU Bookshop EU Observer European Bookshop Ltd Exxon Mobil Corporation Fachbuchhandlung fur Sprachen FSF Ltd - Public Finance Magazine The Fund for American Studies Gardners Books General Healthcare Group GlaxoSmithKline GML Hannay Booksellers Heffers Booksellers Hill & Knowlton Holt Jackson Book Co. IFPMA Institute of Directors IPN KLIO Bookshop Kueper International Booksellers LCS Consulting Lehmann - Mulheim Marsh Inc

Massman International Booksellers McDermott Will & Emery Merck The Merck Foundation Merck Sharp and Dohme Microsoft Motion Picture Association Muenstergass-Buchhandlung Nuffield Hospitals OLFZI Patrick Barbour Pfizer Inc. Pfizer UK PhRMA Precise Public Affairs Progress & Freedom Foundation Schering Plough AB Schweitzer Sortiment Wien Starkmann Ltd Strassner GmbH TSO Bookshop Uitgevrerij Peeters UST Public Affairs VeriSign Inc Verizon

approx 46

2002

approx 80

2007

over 130

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