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Innovation and Intellectual Property Management (IIPM) Laboratory

Prof. Tietze was invited to contribute a talk to the Fraunhofer seminar series. The Fraunhofer Institute for Technological Trend Analysis INT offers scientifically-based judgment and consulting across the full spectrum of technological developments and their interactions with social and economic issues. Prof. Tietze spoke about "The future of patent data and analytics" reflecting on his 20+ year experience working with patent data, sharing observations of how patent data and analysis have change offering some ideas in which direction the field might be going. 

Further details here: https://www.int.fraunhofer.de/de/seminarprogramm.html 

News & Blog articles

Welcome to Dr. Schäper

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...

IIPM @ R&D Management Conference

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...

Newspaper article

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/