Editorial: “Digital innovation to tackle business opportunities in the digital age”

Contents of issue 3 Issue 3 of this year presents a collection of nine papers addressing important topics like national innovation systems, mobile banking, biometric point-of-sale terminal for payments to the role of information technologies in manufacturing and health care. The aim of this paper has supported the objectives to identify the role of mobile banking practices in enhancing sustainable growth and development of Palestine SMEs;determining the factors that influence the SMEs as a service and products providers’ intention to adopt mobile banking;and proposing a conceptual model for adoption mobile banking development by SMEs sectors in Palestine. The paper titled “A decision support system to solve the problem of healthcare priority-setting” (Micaela Pinho and Ana Moura) offers “a decision support tool to deal with the problem of setting priorities among patients competing for limited health-care resources. [...]the authors can name Australia, Qatar and Russia as countries with effective but inefficient innovation systems”.

Editorial: “Innovation, technology and the green transition: towards a more resource-efficient and competitive economy”

[...]innovation policy should be suitable for attaining aims, which are different at each economic development stage. [...]seven lessons from three prosperous Asian countries are crucial for economic development: securing political stability;increasing R&D expenditures;facilitating the acquisition, diffusion and internalization of technology;encouraging government–industry–university collaborations;using the selection and concentration strategy;changing the governmental role from regulator to facilitator;and establishing a legal framework”. The paper titled “Comprehensive evaluation of Iranian regional innovation system (RIS) performance using analytic hierarchy process (AHP)” (by Ali Asghar Sadabadi, Zohreh Rahimi Rad and Kiarash Fartash) provides “a model based on the context and conditions of the regions in Iran for monitoring regional innovation systems (RISs). [...]after the extraction and correction of the indicators to evaluate the RISs, a comprehensive model was identified in 5 dimensions, 16 indicators and 176 sub-indicators.

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International collaborations between national research centres, universities and companies will benefit from knowledge sharing that will contribute to replicate innovative solutions in the field of digital innovation (European Commission, 2021a, 2021b;Moazzez et al., 2020;Ordóñez de Pablos, 2004a, 2004b, 2005;Vaska et al., 2021;Zhang et al., 2016). [...]companies and countries need to invest in their human capital, re-skill and upskill and develop new competencies that support the transition towards a circular and green economy (Lytras et al., 2018;Ordóñez and Edvinsson, 2020;Zahedi and Naghdi Khanachah, 2021). [...]the paper presents and analyses the example of Coimbra, a medium-sized city in Portugal, underlining both the role of academia and the Instituto Pedro Nunes-Incubator have had on these domains. There is evidence that they also provide an important Schumpeterian stimulus within economies by increasing competition, promoting innovation and augmenting the efficient allocation of resources within economies. Besides the more traditional transactional forms of support (tax incentives, grants, etc.), there is now the recognition that relational forms of support such as network building, developing connections between entrepreneurial actors, institutional alignment of priorities, fostering peer-based interactions have been strategic to improve both the efficiency and the effectiveness of the entrepreneurial ecosystem”. [...]the study at hand identifies essential factors that contribute to the successful implementation of IoT-based smart warehouse infrastructure.

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An analysis through the synthesis of academic and trade literature” (by Anuj Batta, Mohina Gandhi, Arpan Kumar Kar, Navin Loganayagam and Vignesh Ilavarasan), states that: blockchain technology has fascinated researchers and industry professionals. Since its birth, the attention for blockchain has been exponentially increasing, however, most of the industries are still skeptical in adoption for value creation. [...]this research model is regarded as Soft Systems Methodology-based Action Research (SSM-based AR). Samples through a convenience sampling method were collected from an online survey were transformed into data through coding and subsequently processed using SPSS for descriptive analysis, reliability test, correlation and multiple regression analysis for hypothesis testing. Innovation and research based skills play most significant roles in novel contributions and consistent growth in all sectors of economy. [...]it has been studied and concluded that Myanmar has been doing greatly to encourage, rather practice the modern research and innovation skills in making it KBE country.

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Next paper in the issue, titled “The role of ICT infrastructure, innovation and globalization on economic growth in OECD Countries, 1996–2017” (by Meta Ayu Kurniawati), proposes that “the rapid development of information and communication technology (ICT) over the past decade has enabled heterogeneous economic sectors to be more integrated, leading to a significant effect on nation’s growth across OECD countries. Authors propose a: framework for technology success factors from a technology provider viewpoint, which classifies technology transfer success factors in an expansive way from technology to the market (technology, organization, context, collaboration and customer absorptive capacity factors). [...]the sixth paper of the issue, titled “Environmental conditions, subsidiaries’ autonomy and global innovation in multinational enterprises” (by Rafael Morais Pereira, Felipe Mendes Borini, Leandro Lima Santos, and Moacir de Miranda Oliveira Júnior), focuses on the analysis of: the influence of environmental conditions of the subsidiaries’ host country in the process of developing global innovation.