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Innovation and Intellectual Property Management (IIPM) Laboratory

Last year, under the leadership of Andrew Czajkowski and Christopher Harrison, WIPO initiated a new Community of Practice (CoP) for patent analytics bringing together patent/IP offices from around the work to join forces and share experience on their work.

The CoP held its inaugural in-person Symposium “Elevating Patent Analytics Together” in Geneva at WIPO headquarters on 17/18 September 2024, for which Prof. Tietze was invited to provide the opening keynote following the symposium opening by Marco M. Alemán, WIPO’s Assistant Director General, IP and Innovation Ecosystems Sector (IES). Prof. Tietze’s keynote was titled “Unlocking the Social Value of Patent Data”. The slides are available for download here.

Prof. Tietze says “this is such an excellent initiative, which is very timely giving the substantial patent-data work flow changes we are currently experiencing giving the digitization of data, new data science techniques available and opportunities presented by AI and large language models, and particularly giving the global challenges we are facing”.

Images below: Copyright: WIPO. Photos: Emmanuel Berrod.


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 with Alfred Radauer, Martin Moehrle, Ioanna Stefan, Martin Bader and...

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...