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Innovation and Intellectual Property Management (IIPM) Laboratory

Alexander joined the Institute for Manufacturing as a visiting PhD student in the Innovation and Intellectual Property Management Lab. His research focuses on strategic and innovation management. At the IIPM lab his focus will be on IP litigation and its performance outcomes. In addition, he uses large language models to establish a novel text-based classification of patent litigations.

Alexander is a research associate and PhD student in innovation management at the University of Münster in Germany, where he also completed his M.Sc. in Business Administration. During his studies he gained practical experience in banking at Deutsche Bank AG and in consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers AG.


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/