Special Issues & Meet the Editors

A forthcoming special issue surrounding Corporate Start-Ups and Collaborations is being promoted through the conference track of the same name. 

Guest Editors: Ferran Giones and Bram Timmermans

Further information to follow. 

Intellectual Capital and R&D management

This special issue aims to unveil how Intellectual Capital (IC) is related to R&D Management, R&D projects, and R&D operations. Papers submitted to the special issue should demonstrate an understanding of the main streams in the relevant academic literature, including the role played by appropriability, absorptive capacity, and human resources, as well as the IC peculiarities of innovation networks or ecosystems. Perspectives on issues such as IC – innovation connection, IC disclosure or generating IC, as seen in the context of R&D Management, R&D projects, and R&D operations, will be particularly welcomed. We are interested in studies that are theoretically grounded. Therefore, conceptual papers that develop theory are also welcomed in addition to rigorous empirical studies conducted with accustomed, or more novel methodologies. 

This special issue is promoted through the conference track Intellectual Capital and R&D Management.

Places and Spaces of Collaborative R&D and Innovation: Physical, Virtual and Cognitive contexts

The guest editors are looking for scholarly contributions to collaborative R&D and innovation, using qualitative, quantitative, and conceptual approaches. In particular, the special issue editors encourage submissions that shed light on places and spaces in physical, virtual and cognitive contexts enabling collaborative R&D and innovation activities.

Alongside these Special Issues, R&D Management are looking forward to seeing all papers submitted to the conference and would welcome papers for additional R&D topics. 

The forthcoming special issue 'Supply Chain Innovation in an Era of Disruption: Mitigating Future Shocks' is aligned with the conference theme and welcomes relevant empirical papers across all tracks.  

Guest Editors: Juliette Wilson & Natalie McDougall 

The Management of Intellectual Property in Times of Rapid Institutional Change

This special issue explores the management of intellectual property (IP) in times of substantial institutional change. The Corona crisis, climate change, fast digitalization, and migration are examples of developments that have been challenging current institutional set-ups and arrangements of late. They are going to impact IP management profoundly in many different ways. The special issue aims to shed light on recent, particularly qualitative research in this area.

The motivation for this special issue goes back to the “IP Management” track of the 2021 R&D Management Conference. Especially, although not exclusively, authors from this track are encouraged to submit their work for the special issue.

Guest Editors: Martin Bader, Frank Tietze & Alfred Radauer