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Upcoming World IP Day 2024

25 April 2024

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...

GOCIA project visit to Johannesburg

4 March 2024

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...

Congratulations to Max

8 February 2024

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...

First IIPM alumni gathering

8 February 2024

Just in time before Christmas, on 12 December 2023 the IIPM Lab hosted its first ever hybrid alumni gathering. It was a great pleasure to see so many former postdocs, PhD students and visitors again and hear their updates on what they are currently doing and where they work. It was very nice to see that several have...

Welcome to the team

8 February 2024

A very warm welcome to Melanie Martini, who joins us from the Fraunhofer Institute for Technological Trend Analysis INT . Melanie is also a PhD student at RWTH Aachen. Her research focuses on patent data usage for trend analysis. While being in Cambridge we are working together on a project using patent data to identify...

Welcome to the team

8 February 2024

We are very pleased to welcome Kristin Gisa to the IIPM team as visitor. Kristin is a Ph.D. student in Management at the University of Münster, Germany, and a research associate at the Institute for Entrepreneurship in the Center for Management. Her research focuses on green manufacturing and its impact on innovation...

New working paper published

8 February 2024

Very pleased to announce our new working paper as an outcome from a collaboration with colleagues from the Innovation und Entrepreneurship (WIN) team at RWTH Aachen . The study investigates the relationship between green innovation (measured by Y02 patent data), environmental performance (measured by GHG emissions), and...

Welcome to the team

8 February 2024

A very warm welcome to Sara! Dr Sara Serradas O'Holleran was raised in Mozambique and has a research background in Life Sciences (Microbiology in Portugal and Institut Pasteur & Neuroscience PhD at Cambridge). This led to her commitment to University-generated innovation addressing the Sustainable Development Goals (...

Upcoming World IP Day 2024

Visit to Chalmers University of Technology

Talk by Prof. Caroline Ncube at King's College

GOCIA project visit to Johannesburg

Congratulations to Max

First IIPM alumni gathering

Welcome to the team

Welcome to the team

New working paper published

Welcome to the team

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