Sustainability and Innovation in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Data-Driven Approaches
A special issue of Data (ISSN 2306-5729). This special issue belongs to the section "Information Systems and Data Management".
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Special Issue Editors
Interests: entrepreneurship; corporate finance; financial risk; economics; banking
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2. NECE-UBI—Research Unit in Business Sciences, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal
Interests: regional innovation systems; RIS3; smart specialization; tourism; strategy; entrepreneurship; marketing; innovation; circular economy; competitiveness
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Interests: strategic management; knowledge management; marketing; organizational behavior; governance; human resources management; innovation; entrepreneurship
Interests: management; strategy; sustainability; entrepreneurship; marketing; circular economy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The European Union (EU) has recently reinforced its environmental policies to strengthen the measures in the field of climate change. Thus, for the period 2021-2027 the EU intends to become increasingly greener, with a substantial reduction in carbon emissions. These objectives were approved in the Paris agreement, which was signed by 195 participating countries, distributed geographically across the globe, and came into force on November 4, 2016. Further to these objectives, the agreement also approved goals for energy transition, aiming to combat climate change and promote energy from renewable sources, thus, making nations more sustainable and greener. Countries that signed the agreement are trying their utmost to divert financing from structural funds towards innovation policies based on the challenges associated with sustainability
In this context, entrepreneurial ecosystems became more relevant as they have more impact on the economic policies of a substantial number of nations. Therefore, the concept of business ecosystems offers a new perspective on the geographical grouping of economic activity. Moreover, the regional development strategy policies promoted around the world, are focused on continuous technological evolution, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Consequently, ecosystems are matters that have aroused the interest of researchers.
Being so, it is essential to establish a relationship between business ecosystems and the everyday ecological praxis in societies. This can be achieved through global and regional environmental initiatives, and through the application of good practices in waste management, recycling, reuse, and, ultimately, sustainable development. Regional actors, such as governments, industry, and universities should be able to include these good practices into their objectives, always with close attention to the economic aspect, since being sustainable and economically viable is difficult to manage and reconcile.
To bring new contributions to sustainable economic development, the special issue “Sustainability and Innovation in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Data-Driven Approaches” aims to receive articles that result from data mining, such as systematic literature reviews and bibliometric analyzes (may accept others) on the subjects under investigations. The data must be collected in large scientific repositories, such as the Web of Science and Scopus (others can be accepted).
Potential topics should include (but are not limited to):
- New techniques for data mining in sustainability, innovation, and entrepreneurial ecosystems;
- Sustainability promoted by entrepreneurship;
- Sustainable entrepreneurship and sustainable innovations;
- Public policies and sustainable entrepreneurship;
- Technologies to support innovation ecosystems;
- Open-innovation culture in sustainable ecosystems;
- Open innovation and competitiveness;
- Modeling and innovation managing in a collaborative environment;
- Knowledge transfer;
- Governance mechanisms;
- Innovation metrics in a collaborative context;
- Effects of knowledge and/or technology transfer, climate change mitigation and patents on company performance;
- Strategies for open innovation;
- Factors impacting entrepreneurial ecosystems;
- Strategically oriented entrepreneurial to sustainable initiatives;
- Models of sustainable entrepreneurship;
- Sustainable academic entrepreneurship;
- New forms for entrepreneurial investment;
- Creation and development of entrepreneurial ecosystems;
- Sustainable innovation and business ecosystems;
- Sustainable entrepreneurship collaborations and value creation;
- Entrepreneurship, pricing, and green technologies;
- Sustainable innovation and business performance;
- Entrepreneurial sustainability, performance, and technology;
- Circular economy and entrepreneurial ecosystems.
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Dr. Sofia Gomes
Dr. João M. Lopes
Dr. Marcio Oliveira
Dr. José Oliveira
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Data is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- Sustainability
- Innovation
- Entrepreneurial ecosystems
- Regional development
- Triple-Helix
- Entrepreneurial development
- Strategies
- Systematic literature review
- Bibliometric analysis
- Circular economy
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