Svitlana Lebedenko

Global Fellow Svitlana Lebedenko

Svitlana Lebedenko

Post-Doctoral Global Fellow
Ukraine
svitlana.lebedenko@nyu.edu

Svitlana Lebedenko is a Post-Doctoral Global Fellow affiliated with the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy. Her research focuses on the regulation of technology markets, intellectual property law, and innovation systems.

She has been a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She holds a PhD in Law from the European University Institute, where she was awarded the EUI Special Doctoral Fellowship in Law (Hans Kelsen Grant). She is trained in information technology and intellectual property law, comparative, international, and European Union law.

At NYU, Svitlana Lebedenko is completing a book project tentatively entitled “Russian Innovation and Intellectual Property: What Went Wrong”, a historically and empirically informed case study with a focus on information technology and biotechnology sectors. The manuscript examines Soviet and Russian 100-year history of institutional experiments with legal forms, incentives, and organizational arrangements in search of an optimal system of knowledge production and diffusion.

Center Affiliation: Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy
Research Project: Global governance of innovation systems and regulation of technology markets