Electronics and Dynamic Open Innovation

Dear Colleagues,

As the fourth industrial revolution arrives, not just the IT sector, but all industries, including smart city, autonomous car, intelligent robot, and block chains, are moving to become electronic industries. In addition, the sharing economy, which is opposed to owning economy and market- and crowd-based products in the sharing economy, is expanded to all industries with the extensions of electronic platforms, like Uber, Airbnb, Justpark, LiquidSpace, Getaround, BlaBlaCar, Etsy, Eatwith, Fon, TaskRabbity, Skillshare, Yayable, and so on.

Thus, dynamic open innovation between electronic technologies and markets are appearing as the requisite for firms of all types, such as start-ups, SMEs, or MNCs, in order to succeed in the fourth industrial revolution.

In order to encourage scientists and researchers to present their progress in the above fields, we would like to set up this Special Issue to publish the latest research work on, but not limited to, the following topics:

• second IT revolution;
• dynamic open innovation;
• smart city;
• autonomous car;
• intelligent robot;
• block chain to sharing economy;

In addition, the authors of the papers, which will be presented at SOItmC 2019, being organized at Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan, on 28 June–1 July 2019, are invited to submit their extended versions to this Special Issue of the Journal Electronics after the conference. Submitted papers should be extended to the size of regular research or review articles, with at least a 50% extension of new results. There are no page limitations for this journal.

Open for SOItmC 2019 authors: 1 July 2019

Any SOItmC 2019 authors in addition to the planned papers can submit to this special issue after full paper submission to SOItmC 2019 platfrom and paying the registration fee until 31 May 2019.

Close: 31 December 2019

Prof. Dr. JinHyo Joseph Yun
Prof. Dr. DaeCheol Kim
Prof. Dr. Min-Ren Yan
Guest Editors

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