Last Fall, TILEC issued a call for research proposals on 'the interplay between innovation, intellectual property and competition policy.' The goal of this competition was to bring together scholars in the fields of law and of economics to generate new, scientific, policy-relevant findings on this issue. The selection committee comprised Vicenzo Denicolo (Bologna), Damien Geradin (Tilburg), and Greg Sidak (Georgetown). It received 31 quality applications from all but one continent and ranked them in accordance with the criteria set forth in the call for proposals. Last month, it announced that the projects submitted by (in no specific order) Michael Ward (Texas at Arlington), Scott Baker (North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and ClaudioMezzetti (Warwick), and Bruce Kobayashi and Joshua D. Wright (both of George Mason) would be each awarded a EUR 15,000 grant. On 15 December 2008, TILEC will organize a workshop in Tilburg, where the preliminary results of those projects will be presented and discussed. This competition was part of a research programme on competition law, intellectual property law and innovation sponsored by Qualcomm Inc. at TILEC. Innovation will be at the core of the conference organized by TILEC on 14 April 2008 to celebrate its fifth anniversary.