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New working paper published

8 February 2024

Very pleased to announce our new working paper as an outcome from a collaboration with colleagues from the Innovation und Entrepreneurship (WIN) team at RWTH Aachen . The study investigates the relationship between green innovation (measured by Y02 patent data), environmental performance (measured by GHG emissions), and...

Welcome to the team

8 February 2024

A very warm welcome to Sara! Dr Sara Serradas O'Holleran was raised in Mozambique and has a research background in Life Sciences (Microbiology in Portugal and Institut Pasteur & Neuroscience PhD at Cambridge). This led to her commitment to University-generated innovation addressing the Sustainable Development Goals (...

IIPM article selected as Editor's Choice

24 January 2024

The recent IIPM Laboratory article on "Responsible IP Strategies" was selected as editor's choice article in WPI. The full article is available here: https://lnkd.in/eWuCd9xJ screenshot_2024-01-24_094931.jpg

New project exploring green manufacturing orientation and firms' investments in climate technologies

12 January 2024

The relevance of tackling climate change and environmental degradation is increasing, so companies must also become more sustainable. Since more than ¼ of the worldwide emission consumption is generated from industries, green manufacturing (GM) becomes even more relevant. The approach aims to improve the environmental...

New project - AI for identifying disruptive innovation

11 January 2024

This project seeks to enhance our comprehension of the relationship between patents and potentially disruptive innovation. While the retrospective identification of disruptive technologies is extensively examined in literature, the prospective identification remains an unresolved research inquiry due to the numerous...

New project - GOCIA (Governing Climate Innovation – Africa)

1 December 2023

We are pleased to announce our new GOCIA project (Governing Climate Innovation – Africa) jointly funded by the EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) Strategic Impact Partnerships Fund as well as the Policy Support Fund. GOCIA addresses the pressing need for governance solutions for African climate adaptation innovation...

Welcome to Andre Hemmelder

12 July 2023

André joined the Institute for Manufacturing as a visiting PhD student in the Innovation and Intellectual Property Management Lab. His research focuses on data-driven strategic decision-making in global battery technologies, with an emphasis on geostrategic issues. Specifically, he uses data science algorithms to extract...

Welcome to Hanna Jaeschke

11 July 2023

Hanna is currently doing a 6 month research stay at the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) at the University of Cambridge. In her research, she is working at the IIPM lab on the topic of intellectual property (IP) in a Crowdfunding context. In their work, they are investigating how the signal of IP protection affects the...

New paper published on responsible IP strategies

17 April 2023

In this paper, we propose a responsible intellectual property (IP) strategy (R-IPS) framework based on five exploratory case studies of sustainable companies in energy, nutrition, consumer electronics, manufacturing and water treatment sectors. These companies responsibly use IP assets to create positive social and...

British Council-funded project ‘Intellectual Property for Sustainability’ completed

14 March 2023

The Innovation and Intellectual Property Management (IIPM) lab together with partners from the IfM Engage (UK), Oxford Brookes University (UK), Indian Institute of Science (India) and Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) (India) recently completed the British Council-funded Going Global India-UK Partnership...