Rafael Castro - LARHRA/Triangle Seminar "Businesses, Markets and Regulation"
On May 7, 2026
MSH LSE, 14 av. Berthelot, Lyon 7, room André Bollier 5pm-7pm
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Rafael Castro, Fellow at the Collegium, will present his research entitled ‘Intellectual property and internationalisation strategies of multinational companies: the Spanish case, c. 1880–c. 1936’ at the seminar ‘Businesses, Markets and Regulation’, organised by LARHRA and the Triangle laboratory.
Rafael Castro is Associate Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. His research includes work on business history, foreign direct investments, and intellectual property rights. His latest research focusses on the history of the brand, with a double special issue in Business History (“The Brand and Its History: Economic, Business, and Social Value”, with Patricio Sáiz) and on the interactions between FDI and IPRs in the long run (“Foreign Direct Investment and Intellectual Property Rights: International Intangible Assets in Spain over the Long Term”, with Patricio Sáiz, that was awarded the Mira Wilkins Prize 2018 and the Philip Scranton Best Article Prize 2018 from the Business History Conference). His publications also include articles in Industrial and Corporate Change, Entreprises et Histoire and Business History Review, among others.