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21 July 2025

Welcome to Francesco Donini, who is visiting us this week from the University of Pisa. Francesco is a PhD student and works with me and Prof. Damiano di Francesco Maesa (a former postdoc of the IIPM Lab) on our ALPS project.

17 July 2025

The sharing economy represents a transformative paradigm that fundamentally reshapes resource allocation, consumption patterns, and governance structures across various sectors. While enhancing sustainability through resource optimization, this paradigm introduces significant coordination, compliance, and value distribution challenges. Traditional …

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 for patent litigation analy…

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 Bader and Sevim Süzeroglu-Me…

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/

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 corporates as well as globally ad…

20 May 2025

Together with colleagues from the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy at the University of Muenster, the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Battery Cell Production (FFB) and the Helmholtz Institute Muenster (IMD-4) we have published the results of a patent study investigating the geostrategic race for leadership in future electric vehicle battery…

19 May 2025

Graham Bell, one of IfM Engage TPA’s associated with the Innovation and IP Management lab, is excited to announce the launch of a new book on “Business Secrets Management – Strategies to Protect, Extracts and Maximise Value”.As an expert group of 13 authors, have together collaborated in a work stream within the Licensing Executives Society Interna…

16 May 2025

An IP analytics teaching activity that has been developed for graduate/postgraduate students and been tested for several years with IfM PhD students has now been released as a teaching kit under a creative commons license. The teaching kit download package contains two sets of PPT files for the kickoff and interim presentation as well as a set brie…

4 April 2025

We are pleased to welcome a new addition to our team. Leopold von Gerlach has recently joined us from the Technical University of Munich to pursue his master’s thesis at the IIPM Lab. His research focuses on IP challenges in remanufacturing. Welcome, Leopold!

20 December 2024

We have summarized some of the key events and achievements of the Lab and our members from 2024 in a first ever edition of our annual review, which is available for download . 

13 December 2024

It was a pleasure to welcome most the ALPS team to Cambridge. Having worked for some many months together mostly remotely, it was good to see everyone again together in-person. The team works on the Automated Licensing Payment System (ALPS) project currently exploring options to commercialize the technology platform. The work is also related to an …

12 December 2024

Following the days at Tongji University, Prof. Tietze provided a guest lecture to students at the East China Normal University (ECNU) as part of the module run by Dr. Aocheng Tang, Assitant Professor at ECNU's Department of Economics and Management and IIPM Lab alumni. This year, at ECNU he started teaching the first ever Chinese edition of the 4E1…

8 December 2024

Prof. Tietze was invited to provide a keynote at the 21st Shanghai International Intellectual Property Forum - SICIP Sub Forum. The theme of the Forum was "Innovation Research Powered by Intellectual Property Data". The Forum was organised by the Shanghai International College of Intellectual Property at Tongji University. In his keynote, Prof. Tie…

3 December 2024

We have a few new additions to the team to whom we say a very warm welcome. Qi Ang Du (left) and Peize Li (second from left) join us from China as PhD students together with Rahul Patil (right), here with his partner Ashwini Dayama (second from right), who both join us from India. Josephine Melcher (in the middle) joint us recently from the Technic…