Prof. Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

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  • Incentivizing German Universities to Capitalize on Their Intellectual Property

    Incentivizing German Universities to Capitalize on Their Intellectual Property

    In a recent position paper, SPRIN-D, an innovation agency of the German government, proposed that universities license their intellectual property (IP) to university startups in return for virtual shares. This approach is suggested as a practice to work around universities who stall startup licensing deals due to unrealistic assumptions (e.g. lump-sum upfront payment). The problem…

  • Who to Blame for the log4j Vulnerability?

    So far, nobody. Not the open source developers, who responded fast and professionally, and not the companies who handled the risk within a day or two. Eventually, however, we will have to blame (or complain) about those companies who got cracked because they did not remove the vulnerability in time.