This special issue of World Patent Information 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.

Frank Tietze, co-Principal Investigator of the IPACST project, is a Guest Editor of the Special Issue, which is organized in collaboration with the IPACST project.

The timeline of this special issue is as follows:

First submission: October 1, 2021

Final submission: August 31, 2022

Publication of the special issue: March 1, 2023

For more information, please see the World Patent Information website.