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Read more at: Welcome to Andre Hemmelder

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...


Read more at: Welcome to Hanna Jaeschke

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...


Read more at: New paper published on responsible IP strategies

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...


Read more at: British Council-funded project ‘Intellectual Property for Sustainability’ completed

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...


Read more at: PhD student secures Enrichment Placement Award at The Alan Turing Institute

PhD student secures Enrichment Placement Award at The Alan Turing Institute

10 October 2022

Congratulations to Max for securing a place on The Alan Turing Institute’s 2022/23 Enrichment scheme. His research focuses on the identification and classification of climate change mitigation technologies from patent data. Further details here .


Read more at: Frank Tietze becomes President of the EPIP Association

Frank Tietze becomes President of the EPIP Association

21 September 2022

Following the general assembly at this year's EPIP conference Frank Tietze has been confirmed as the association's new president.


Read more at: Maximilian Elsen on research visit at ETH Zurich

Maximilian Elsen on research visit at ETH Zurich

11 August 2022

Max, who is currently a second year PhD Candidate within the IIPM, is visiting ETH Zurich over July and August to work in the Group for Sustainability and Technology ( https://sustec.ethz.ch/ ). Within his PhD, Max works on a project that researches the sustainability value of firm-level patent portfolios. He works...


Read more at: Open innovation: Solving IP challenges for SMEs

Open innovation: Solving IP challenges for SMEs

26 February 2022

The recent addition of The Manufacturer features an article summarizing the key results from our recent POINT project for the European Commission, particularly EISMEA (European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency). The article addresses the needs of SMEs, particularly when it comes to the IP related challenges...


Read more at: New project funded by British Council

New project funded by British Council

10 January 2022

This British Council has awarded to the IIPM Lab an India-UK partnership project that aims to design, develop, and pilot test a multidisciplinary teaching module for educating Indian graduate students on ‘Intellectual Property for Sustainability’. The project integrates learnings from the ongoing Belmont Forum and Norface...


Read more at: ALPS collaboration with University of Pisa

ALPS collaboration with University of Pisa

16 December 2021

img_20211210_112404.jpg The ALPS team is pleased to announce the start of a formal collaboration between the IIPM Lab, on behalf of the University of Cambridge, and the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa in Italy. The project is called “Climbing ALPS” and the local manager is Frank Tietze, while the...