Identifying Crisis-Critical Intellectual Property Challenges during the
Covid-19 Pandemic: A scenario analysis and conceptual extrapolation of
innovation ecosystem dynamics using a visual mapping approach
The Covid-19 pandemic exposed firms, organisations and their respective
supply chains which are directly involved in the manufacturing of products that
are critical to alleviating the effects of the health crisis, collectively
referred to as the Crisis-Critical Sector,to unprecedented challenges. Firms
from other sectors, such as automotive, luxury and home appliances, have rushed
into the Crisis-Critical Sector in order to support the effort to upscale
incumbent manufacturing capacities, thereby introducing Intellectual Property
(IP)related dynamics and challenges. We apply an innovation ecosystem
perspective on the Crisis-Critical Sector and adopt a novel visual mapping
approach to identify IP associated challenges and IP specific dynamic
developments during and potentially beyond the crisis.In this paper, we add
methodologically by devising and testing a visual approach to capturing IP
related dynamics in evolving innovation ecosystems and contribute to literature
on IP management in the open innovation context by proposing paraground IP as a
novel IP type.Finally, we also deduce managerial implications for IP management
practitioners at both incumbent firms and new entrants for navigating
innovation ecosystems subject to crisis-induced dynamic shifts