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Innovation and Intellectual Property Management (IIPM) Laboratory

Hanna is currently doing a 6 month research stay at the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) at the University of Cambridge. In her research, she is working at the IIPM lab  on the topic of intellectual property (IP) in a Crowdfunding context. In their work, they are investigating how the signal of IP protection affects the success of the emerging funding form of Reward-based Crowdfunding using a novel text-based measure. Hanna is a PhD student at the Chair of Innovation Management at Leibniz University Hannover supervised by Prof. Dr. Nils Foege.


Hanna received her Master's degree in Entrepreneurship from Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg and her Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Humboldt University in Berlin. 

Hanna has joint the rowing team of Trinity Hall College. She has rowed successfully at the May Bumps and appreciates the opportunity to connect and exchange ideas with like-minded people from different disciplines, both in an athletic context and at the weekly Formal Halls during Easter Term. 

News & Blog articles

Upcoming World IP Day 2024

25 April 2024

This year's World IP Day is dedicated to the topic of " IP and the SDGs: Building our common future with innovation and creativity ". Those that have followed our research will know that this is an important topic for our group. We are thus delighted that two colleagues and friends, Dr Pratheeba Vimalnath (now Lecturer in...

Visit to Chalmers University of Technology

28 March 2024

Frank attended the final seminar acting as discussants for Sarah van Santen, PhD student of Prof. Marcus Holgersson at the Department for Technology Management and Economics. Her thesis includes two studies unpacking the role of IP in digital and sustainable entrepreneurship. This was a good opportunity to meet again with...

Talk by Prof. Caroline Ncube at King's College

22 March 2024

Within the context of our GOCIA project (Governing Climate Innovation from Africa), it was an honour to host Prof. Caroline Ncube at King's College, Cambridge for a talk on "African perspectives on governing Science, Technology and Innovation to advance the SDGs" during which she introduced her new book, the " Elgar...