Our group has a long research history of 11 years, from our first national project BJU2003-07935 Contractual development of franchising networks, funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, to the current CELDEFCOM Licit business coordination in competition law of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and PROMETEU/ 2015/019/FASEII Business networks and competition law of the Consellería de Educació Generalitat Valenciana. During this period we have obtained and developed a total of five national projects, two Prometeo projects, two contracts with the European Commission for the training of national judges in European competition law and we have also participated in two European research projects or contracts Inter-firm networks in the wine industry in Europe, VI Framework Programme, European Commission, led by Fabrizio Caffaggi (European University Institute), and 'Study on the legal framework covering business-to-business unfair trading practices in the retail supply chain' Tender MARKT/2012/049/E, DG-V OF THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION.

The main focus of our group is, on the one hand, the legal analysis of business collaboration from a multi-faceted perspective, covering contract law - distribution, agency or franchise contracts -, company law - economic interest groupings, joint ventures, clusters or so-called coordination groups -, intellectual property rights - technology transfer or software licensing -, insolvency law - insolvency of a franchisee or car manufacturer and effects on its network of subcontractors or dealers - and competition law - legal framework for business cooperation, cumulative network effects in block exemption regulations, taking into account business networks in merger cases -.

During these years we have published a total of eight collective books, in addition to the six monographs by members of the group, and more than two hundred articles in national and international journals, not to mention the countless commentaries on European and national judgments, as well as the participation of our members in university activities of the EUIPO and the EIPTN. We have also organised a total of 23 national congresses or symposiums, as well as organising countless cycles of conferences and courses with the participation of speakers from other Spanish and foreign universities.

The members of our group have also been regularly invited by other European and American Universities and research groups, as well as having been speakers at more than one hundred conferences and symposia held in other Universities, Institutions or research centres and professional or business forums in our country or abroad.

Our members have spent several stays in prestigious foreign scientific institutions such as the European University Institute of Florence, the Max Planck Institute of Munich and Hamburg, the London School of Economics, Harvard University, Oxford University, the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the Humbolt University of Berlin, Trinity College of Dublin, or the Università degli Studi di Firenze. Two of our members have received scholarships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. During this period, we have also read six doctoral theses supervised by members of our group.

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