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Innovation and Intellectual Property Management (IIPM) Laboratory

Frank Tietze, head of the IIPM Lab was invites to share insights into the research we have been working on since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. The talk is organised by the University's Maxwell Centre jointly with Cambridge Network. In his talk Frank summarised the main findings from our recently published IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management paper "Crisis-Critical IP", he introduced the key concepts we proposed in that paper (Crisis-Critical products, CC-sectors and CC-IP), discussed the incumbents and new entrants perspectives / scenarios during highly dynamic times that alter industrial organisations, shared insights into his involvement with the Open Covid Pledge and discussed some initial findings that are potentially relevant for policy makers (incentive focused use of IP policy and access driven IP policies). 

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Upcoming World IP Day 2024

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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...

Visit to Chalmers University of Technology

28 March 2024

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...

Talk by Prof. Caroline Ncube at King's College

22 March 2024

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...