This track explores the interaction between the innovation context – particularly scientific or technological context – and R&D management practices.  The search for general-purpose R&D management concepts and frameworks – analogous to general-purpose technologies – has dominated the R&D management field.  Yet, with their own characteristics and internal logics, individual technologies set the context for innovation and influence many dimensions of the innovation process, for example: timescales, research methods, skills requirements, capital intensity, IP strategy, financing requirements, risks, international topologies and information flows. 

Papers are encouraged that:

• concentrate on one or more specific technologies, identified at a sufficient level of granularity that their distinct characteristics can be appreciated, or

• explore how the evolution of an R&D management practice has arisen from a technological context, or

• investigate how emerging ‘deep tech’ or ‘frontier technologies’ are shaping R&D management practices, or

• are co-authored between R&D management and engineering or the sciences.