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Innovation and Intellectual Property Management (IIPM) Laboratory

"It was a great pleasure to provide a guest lecture to such bright engineering students at the University of Exeter" says Prof. Tietze, who was invited by Pratheeba Vimalnath, former IfM colleague to provide a lecture titled "Intellectual Property Rights: owning, using & finding them". The lecture focused on why IP is important to engineering students, provided a brief introduction to IP essentials, discussed a number of examples for how IP is being used and why patent data is valuable and how it can be searched. 

 

 

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 since 2021 with Alfred Radauer, Martin Moehrle, Ioanna Stefan, Martin...

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...