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New working paper published together with colleagues from the University of Hannover and University of Muenster. The paper presents results from a quantitative study using crowdfunding data to explore if IP protection and sustainability effect crowdfunding success. The paper resulted from a visit of Hanna Jaeschke to the IIPM lab earlier this year.…

We are very pleased to announced that the Wikipedia page about Ove Granstrand has now been published. Ove has been and continues to be an inspiration to so many students and researchers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ove_GranstrandProf. Tietze says "Ove has been the inspiration for me to initially consider PhD studies, which I had never thought off…

Very pleased to see another paper being published from our IPACST project (2018-2022). We are particularly pleased about this paper as it continues our mission to bring a more nuanced conversations about the role of IP in sustainability transitions into the academic sustainability community. Along the lines of our 2022 paper published in the Journa…

Thanks for visiting us in Cambridge! It was very nice to see Marcia Mkansi from the University of South Africa at the IfM today. Not only is Marcia  Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at the College of Economic and Management Sciences but also a serial entrepreneurial. Great fun showing her around and telling her a bit about the Si…

It was fantastic to see that the EURAM track we started back in 2018 now called "Innovation for Sustainablility, Circularity and GreenTech" has grown into a full and standing track at one of Europe's prime management conferences, this year even with seven sessions spread out across all three days. We had excellent paper presentations and really val…

Yesterday, we had the chance to welcome Kathy Lidell and Mateo Aboy from our Law Faculty to our weekly IIPM research seminar, who brought along a visitor from Australia. Elija Perrier, who is a researcher at the Centre for Quantum Software and Information at the University of Technology Sydney and Fellow at the Center for Responsible Quantum Techno…

Congratulations to Hanna Jaeschke for graduating. Prof. Tietze acted as external examiner for her PhD thesis at the Leibniz University Hannover supervised by Prof. Foege, who was one of the first visiting PhD students himself (then pursuing his PhD studies at RWTH Aachen) not too long after Frank had started in Cambridge.Hanna's PhD thesis is title…

Prof. Tietze had the chance of visiting Muenster in Germany earlier this week. During his stay, Prof. Tietze, together with collaborators from Münster, including Prof. Jens Leker and Prof. Simon Lux visited the recently opened “FFB PreFab” at the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Battery Cell Production (FFB). This facility provides excellent res…

Congratulations to Jannik Fritz who graduated today with an MPhil. Jannik has complete his MPhil research with the IIPM Lab focused on developing a tool that helps technology ventures developing IP strategies. His research is based on our IP roadmapping work. 

We are pleased to welcoming David Gross, who has recently joint the IIPM Lab as visitor from RWTH Aachen in Germany where he is currently completing his master studies in production technologies. His research builds on our work of Intellectual Property Risk Management, in particular with a focus on developing a framework/toolkit to map different IP…

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 Innovation, Intellectual Prop…

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 Ove Granstrand, now emerit…

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 Companion to Intellectual Propert…

It has been a fantastic visit to Johannesburg attending the “Transforming Africa: Innovating our way towards sustainability” organised by Erika Kraemer-Mbula and her team from the DSI/NRF SARChI-Trilateral Research Chair in Transformative Innovation (TRCTI).During the conference we had a chance to meet several colleagues from the OpenAir network, w…

And here comes another soon-to-be IIPM alumni. Congratulations to Maximilian Elsen, who successfully completed his viva on Friday, 26th January. In his research he The title of his PhD thesis is "Inventions in Climate Technologies - A Patent Analysis".His research addresses the complexities involved in identifying and classifying climate technologi…