Legal Innovation: Law and Innovation Management

The links between innovation and law are strong and evolving: they interact to shape standards, technologies, products and services. In line with the Law & Management field, the authors of this issue of Innovations, Revue d’économie et de management de l’innovation focus on legal innovation, an emerging topic at the crossroads of legal and managerial disciplines. This theme, complex by its very nature, requires the cross-fertilization of theoretical and methodological approaches from both fields. Through a series of varied contributions - both theoretical and empirical - the authors offer an initial perspective on the notion of legal innovation, its forms, issues and practical implications.

This special issue addresses two questions: how the law can be a lever for innovation, and how innovation can profoundly transform existing legal frameworks and practices.