News

20 September 2025

The Innovation and Intellectual Property Management (IIPM) Laboratory, led by Professor Frank Tietze at the University of Cambridge, made a strong showing at the 20th Annual EPIP Conference in Antwerp, Belgium. This year's theme, “Turning IP Ambitions into Action,” set the stage for lively discussions on the role of intellectual property in address…

19 September 2025

Pleased to announce our newly published paper in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Pisa. (Damiano di Francesco Maesa, Matteo Loporchio) titled “Privacy-Preserving and Automated Intellectual Property License Agreements over Heterogeneous Blockchain Networks”. The papaper presents a protocol that enables automated negotiation and e…

19 September 2025

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new article in MIT Sloan Management Review. The publication in an outcome of a collaborative research project with colleagues from Chalmers University of Technology (Marcus Holgersson), University of Exeter Business School (Pratheeba Vimalnath), and Royal Ahrend (Charlotte van Dijk-Wittkampf).See asso…

19 September 2025

The IIPM team published a new paper in Business Strategy and the Environment. This publication is the outcome of a collaboration with colleagues from Finland (Ulla A. Saari, Arho Suominen, Marja Rissanen, Maarit Salolainen).With a focus on man-made cellulosic fibers, the study examines whether and how patenting advances cir…

21 July 2025

Welcome to Francesco Donini, who is visiting us this week from the University of Pisa. Francesco is a PhD student and works with me and Prof. Damiano di Francesco Maesa (a former postdoc of the IIPM Lab) on our ALPS project.

17 July 2025

The sharing economy represents a transformative paradigm that fundamentally reshapes resource allocation, consumption patterns, and governance structures across various sectors. While enhancing sustainability through resource optimization, this paradigm introduces significant coordination, compliance, and value distribution challenges. Traditional …

8 July 2025

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Thomas Schäper, who has recently joined us from the University of Münster as a visiting research scholar at the IIPM Lab. His research focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence, innovation, and intellectual property, with a particular emphasis on the use of large language models for patent litigation analy…

1 July 2025

Qi Ang Du and Frank Tietze attended this year's R&D Management Conference in Pisa (Italy) organized by the Institute of Management of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. Frank Tietze acted as one of the chairs for the IP Management track jointly organized since 2021 with Alfred Radauer, Martin Moehrle, Ioanna Stefan, Martin Bader and Sevim Süzeroglu-Me…

2 June 2025

A short opinion piece by Prof. Tietze was featured in the Brussels Morning Newspaper calling for more innovation within our IPR systems to address global challenges: https://brusselsmorning.com/we-need-strong-intellectual-property-rights-for-a-sustainable-future/73186/

20 May 2025

By Frank Tietze (2025)Western culture today is profoundly shaped by ongoing waves of innovation, a concept close to my heart and to which I have dedicated many years of my professional research and teaching career. Technological innovation particularly has transformed daily life, created jobs, and helped build tech corporates as well as globally ad…

20 May 2025

Together with colleagues from the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy at the University of Muenster, the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Battery Cell Production (FFB) and the Helmholtz Institute Muenster (IMD-4) we have published the results of a patent study investigating the geostrategic race for leadership in future electric vehicle battery…

19 May 2025

Graham Bell, one of IfM Engage TPA’s associated with the Innovation and IP Management lab, is excited to announce the launch of a new book on “Business Secrets Management – Strategies to Protect, Extracts and Maximise Value”.As an expert group of 13 authors, have together collaborated in a work stream within the Licensing Executives Society Interna…

16 May 2025

An IP analytics teaching activity that has been developed for graduate/postgraduate students and been tested for several years with IfM PhD students has now been released as a teaching kit under a creative commons license. The teaching kit download package contains two sets of PPT files for the kickoff and interim presentation as well as a set brie…

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!

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 .