Meet The Team
Jonathan Barnett
Jonathan M. Barnett is the Torrey H. Webb Professor of Law at the Gould School of Law, University of Southern California, where he founded and directs the Media, Entertainment and Technology Law Program. He is the author of The Big Steal: Ideology, Interest, and the Undoing of Intellectual Property (Oxford 2024) and Innovators, Firms, and Markets: The Organizational Logic of Intellectual Property (Oxford 2021), and a co-editor of 5G and Beyond: Intellectual Property and Competition Policy in the Internet of Things (Cambridge 2023). He has published widely in scholarly and policy journals on legal and economic matters relating to antitrust and competition, intellectual property, and innovation law and policy in information technology and life sciences markets.
Bowman Heiden
Bowman J. Heiden is the Executive Director of the Tusher Strategic Initiative for Technology Leadership at the UC-Berkeley Haas School of Business, Fellow at the Classical Liberal Institute at the NYU School of Law, and Director of the Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Gothenburg (UGOT), Sweden (jointly created between academia and industry, in particular, AstraZeneca and Ericsson). Dr. Heiden’s research focuses on intellectual property and open innovation in knowledge intensive industries at the interface of strategy and policy. He has experience working with both pharma and ICT industries, including as the Chair of Innovation Task Group for the European Federation of Biotechnology, the co-founder and Director of the Sahlgrenska School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the UGOT Faculty of Medicine, and a recent member of the European Community Expert Group on the Valuation and Licensing of Standard Essential Patents.
Karla Soler Riba
Karla is the Head of Operations of the Center for Intellectual Property (CIP), a joint center for knowledge-based business development between the University of Gothenburg, Chalmers University of Technology, and the Norwegian University for Science and Technology. Under CIP, she has participated in research activities with a specific focus on the role of intellectual assets in the context of digital business platforms. She has been invited on numerous occasions to teach about the subject to master’s students. Karla has worked as an advisor at the GU Ventures Accelerator, where she provided expertise in issues related to knowledge management, and advised on various research-utilization and venture-acceleration projects. Karla also has experience working in operations within companies of different sizes: from startups to big corporations. Alumni from the Intellectual Capital Management (ICM) program, Karla holds a master’s degree in industrial engineering, a double bachelor’s degree in business and political science, and has completed fellowships in legal studies and public policy. She is a former professional contemporary dancer, a polyglot, and an advocate for diversity as a source of competitive advantage.
