Dr. Abiola Inniss to Present Caribbean IP and AI Research at EPIP 2026 in Turin, Italy.

 Dr. Abiola Inniss will present her paper, “Closing the Execution Gap: A Diagnostic Framework for Intellectual Property Participation in AI-Driven Data Economies, with Evidence from the Caribbean,” at the 21st Annual Conference of the European Policy for Intellectual Property Association, to be held in Turin, Italy, from 9–11 September 2026.

The EPIP Annual Conference is a leading international forum for research on the economic, legal, political and managerial dimensions of intellectual property. Its programme brings together scholars, practitioners and policy specialists through research presentations, keynote addresses and panel discussions. The 2026 conference, themed “Intellectual Property and Innovation Policy in the New Global Economy,” will examine how changing technologies, markets and geopolitical conditions are reshaping IP and innovation policy. EPIP Conference information

Dr. Inniss’s paper examines how Caribbean and other Small Island Developing States generate valuable data that supports artificial-intelligence innovation while remaining largely excluded from the resulting intellectual property ownership and economic returns. It introduces the Execution Gap Framework, a four-phase diagnostic methodology for identifying failures in domestic policy architecture, and applies the original concept of Inniss Data Nullius to explain how locally generated data becomes available for external extraction and offshore commercialization.

The presentation is important because debates about artificial intelligence, data governance and intellectual property are still largely framed through the institutional experiences and priorities of advanced economies. Bringing Caribbean evidence to EPIP places the legal and economic realities of small states directly within an influential international policy conversation. It also challenges the tendency to treat the Global South principally as a recipient of imported legal models or technical assistance. Here, Caribbean scholarship contributes original concepts, empirical findings and policy tools capable of informing the wider field.

The paper therefore brings more than regional representation to Turin. It demonstrates that the Caribbean can serve as a source of internationally relevant theory and policy design on data rights, AI-driven value creation and equitable participation in the global intellectual property system. Its central proposition—that developing jurisdictions must participate as rights-holders rather than merely as sources of data—speaks directly to the future distribution of ownership and economic power in the global AI economy.

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