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Innovation and Intellectual Property Management (IIPM) Laboratory

It has been a fantastic visit to Johannesburg attending the “Transforming Africa: Innovating our way towards sustainability” organised by Erika Kraemer-Mbula and her team from the DSI/NRF SARChI-Trilateral Research Chair in Transformative Innovation (TRCTI).

During the conference we had a chance to meet several colleagues from the OpenAir network, with whom we currently explore options for a deeper and longer term collaboration as part of the GOCIA project.

As part of the visit the Cambridge team and OpenAir colleagues hosted several meetings and a joint workshop. A big thanks to all Cambridge colleagues who made it possible to travel down south and all OpenAir colleagues for engaging with us as well as anyone who joined us online for the workshop. 

From left to right: Prof. Frank Tietze (Head IIPM Lab), Dr Emma Salgård Cunha (Cambridge Enterprise), Steve Davison (Cambridge Zero), Dr Sara Serrandas O'Holleran (IIPM Lab, Cambridge Global Challenges)

News & Blog articles

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/

Thought piece: Has Innovation Broken Western Culture? Reflections on Contemporary Western Culture and Possible Innovative Ways Forward

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...