Call for papers
The research topic proposed in the special issue allows advancing knowledge regarding the interrelationship between Circular Economy (CE) and Open Innovation (OI), aiming to promote the green transition. The environmental emergency requires the transition to new models of sustainable development. Consequently, governments worldwide are taking action to develop green policies (i.e., The European Green Deal, the United Nations 2030 Agenda, etc.). Specifically, the UN organization has compiled a list of 17 Sustainable Development Goals, among which can be found to ensure sustainable production and consumption patterns. Underlying this goal is the concept of the CE, which is considered the economic approach to be embraced to reduce the pressure on natural systems.
For this reason, implementing CE principles supports the green transition. This subject particularly appeals to governments, practitioners, and academics, justifying an in-depth study of how organizations can effectively implement CE principles to accomplish a green transition. In this context, OI represents a viable approach to foster and speed up the implementation of circular initiatives. Specifically, the literature (elucidated in the following paragraphs) highlights how the ecosystem approach enabled by OI facilitates this process, thus deserving attention. For the reasons stated here and for relevance to the journal’s scope, the research topic related to the transition from Linear to CE through OI deserves an entire issue.
We welcome researchers and scholars to submit their high-quality and original papers, including review, case studies, empirical and theoretical works to our special issue based on the special issue objectives and below themes:
- Digital transformation and green technology innovation
- Digital transformation and environmental innovation
- Green growth, technology, and innovation
- Digital transformation and environmental innovation
- Digital innovation and digital business transformation
- Digital business model, digital transformation, and digital entrepreneurship
- Sustainable innovation of technology and business models
- Digital finance and green technological innovation
- Digital transformation and green enterprise innovation
- Environmental decentralization, digital finance, and green technology innovation
- Business transformation, sustainability, and eco‐innovations
- Innovation challenges of digital transformation
- Digital transformation and sustainable business model innovation
The Journal of Innovation & Knowledge will commemorate its 10th anniversary with a special issue that underscores the journal’s growth and key contributions to innovation and knowledge in academia.
In this Special Issue, we consider sustainable innovation ecosystems as complex adaptive systems, in which many autonomous and heterogeneous actors leverage their resources and capabilities and create new ones, by interacting with each other at multiple levels, to allow innovative solutions to new problems to emerge, in a very short time.