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Innovation and Intellectual Property Management (IIPM) Laboratory

The Strategic IP Forum (SIPF) is an open event series launched in spring 2014 that focuses on strategic IP topics from a business perspective. SIPF aims to bring together interested individuals from the Cambridge region and beyond including CTOs, portfolio managers, VPs, Technology, Heads of Innovation/IP/licensing, etc. from a range of manufacturing companies and sectors to engage in an expert community.

The forum is jointly organised with Avidity IP. To keep updated with information about future events, please join our LinkedIn group.

 

SIPF1 - Sharing best-practices among IP champions: https://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/events/sipf-july15/

SIPF2 - Valuing IP inside-out: https://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/events/sipf-december/

SIPF3 - Organizing for IP exploitation: https://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/events/sipf-may16/

SIPF4 - Small meets large: IP challenges: https://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/events/sipf-dec16/

SIPF5 - IP strategies in and around software: https://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/events/strategic-intellectual-property-forum-may17/

SIPF6 - Changing IP cultures: https://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/events/strategic-intellectual-property-forum-feb18/

SIPF7 - IP for successful business models: https://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/events/strategic-intellectual-property-forum-sep18/

News & Blog articles

Welcome to Dr. Schäper

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...

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/