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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

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...