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Innovation and Intellectual Property Management (IIPM) Laboratory

Frank Tietze became Cambridge's first Professor of Innovation Engineering in 2022. 

He leads the Innovation and Intellectual Property Management (IIPM) Lab, which is part of the Centre for Technology Management (CTM) and the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), also known as Division E "Manufacturing and Management" of the Department of Engineering.

The IIPM Lab takes an engineering management (firm level) perspective and a problem focused research approach on IP for distributed, collaborative and cumulative innovation processes and systems.

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News & Blog articles

Welcome to Leo from TUM

4 April 2025

We are pleased to welcome a new addition to our team. Leopold von Gerlach has recently joined us from the Technical University of Munich to pursue his master’s thesis at the IIPM Lab. His research focuses on IP challenges in remanufacturing. Welcome, Leopold! img_0537.jpeg

IIPM annual review

20 December 2024

We have summarized some of the key events and achievements of the Lab and our members from 2024 in a first ever edition of our annual review, which is available for download iipm-ctm_annual_review_2024.pdf iipm-ctm_annual_review_2024.pdf .