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11 Jan 2024

New project - AI for identifying disruptive innovation

This project seeks to enhance our comprehension of the relationship between patents and potentially disruptive innovation. While the retrospective identification of disruptive technologies is extensively examined in literature, the prospective identification remains an unresolved research inquiry due to the numerous difficult-to-measure factors inf…

1 Dec 2023

New project - GOCIA (Governing Climate Innovation – Africa)

We are pleased to announce our new GOCIA project (Governing Climate Innovation – Africa) jointly funded by the EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) Strategic Impact Partnerships Fund as well as the Policy Support Fund.GOCIA addresses the pressing need for governance solutions for African climate adaptation innovation that ensure its appropriate …

12 Jul 2023

Welcome to Andre Hemmelder

André joined the Institute for Manufacturing as a visiting PhD student in the Innovation and Intellectual Property Management Lab. His research focuses on data-driven strategic decision-making in global battery technologies, with an emphasis on geostrategic issues. Specifically, he uses data science algorithms to extract and visualise hidden patter…

11 Jul 2023

Welcome to Hanna Jaeschke

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 fun…

17 Apr 2023

New paper published on responsible IP strategies

In this paper, we propose a responsible intellectual property (IP) strategy (R-IPS) framework based on five exploratory case studies of sustainable companies in energy, nutrition, consumer electronics, manufacturing and water treatment sectors. These companies responsibly use IP assets to create positive social and environmental impact (or reduce n…

14 Mar 2023

British Council-funded project ‘Intellectual Property for Sustainability’ completed

The Innovation and Intellectual Property Management (IIPM) lab  together with partners from the IfM Engage (UK), Oxford Brookes University (UK), Indian Institute of Science (India) and Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) (India) recently completed the British Council-funded Going Global India-UK Partnership project, ‘Intellectual Prope…

10 Oct 2022

PhD student secures Enrichment Placement Award at The Alan Turing Institute

Congratulations to Max for securing a place on The Alan Turing Institute’s 2022/23 Enrichment scheme. His research focuses on the identification and classification of climate change mitigation technologies from patent data. Further details here.

21 Sep 2022

Frank Tietze becomes President of the EPIP Association

Following the general assembly at this year's EPIP conference Frank Tietze has been confirmed as the association's new president. 

11 Aug 2022

Maximilian Elsen on research visit at ETH Zurich

Max, who is currently a second year PhD Candidate within the IIPM, is visiting ETH Zurich over July and August to work in the Group for Sustainability and Technology (https://sustec.ethz.ch/). Within his PhD, Max works on a project that researches the sustainability value of firm-level patent portfolios. He works together on the project with Benedi…

26 Feb 2022

Open innovation: Solving IP challenges for SMEs

The recent addition of The Manufacturer features an article summarizing the key results from our recent POINT project for the European Commission, particularly EISMEA (European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency). The article addresses the needs of SMEs, particularly when it comes to the IP related challenges they face in collaborative an…

10 Jan 2022

New project funded by British Council

This British Council has awarded to the IIPM Lab an India-UK partnership project that aims to design, develop, and pilot test a multidisciplinary teaching module for educating Indian graduate students on ‘Intellectual Property for Sustainability’. The project integrates learnings from the ongoing Belmont Forum and Norface funded, international and …

16 Dec 2021

ALPS collaboration with University of Pisa

The ALPS team is pleased to announce the start of a formal collaboration between the IIPM Lab, on behalf of the University of Cambridge, and the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa in Italy. The project is called “Climbing ALPS” and the local manager is Frank Tietze, while the overseas manager is Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, for…

24 Nov 2021

EPO's Patent Knowledge Week

On 21 November Frank delivered a talk in the opening session of this year's Patent Knowledge Week organised by the European Patent Office that superseeds the previous EPOPIC conference series. In his talk Frank reviewed the evolution of the patent informatics/analytics industry looking back some 20+ years and putting forward some ideas of how the i…

12 Nov 2021

IP and COP26

I had the chance to attend COP26 in Glasgow as observer on behalf of the University, particularly for Cambridge Global Challenges and Cambridge Zero. The three days have been a fantastic experience and I wrote two short travel reports in which I explore what the role of IP might be and how it could be used in the race towards Net Zero.The first rep…

15 Jun 2021

Interview series: What executives should know about IP

The Risk of Short-Termism - An expert view by Ray Millien, Chief IP Officer at Volvo Car Group and CEO at Volvo Cars Ventures. This is the third blog, resulting from a series of interviews with senior IP experts discussing the question: "What do executives need to know about intellectual property to make better business decisions?".Recently I had t…