Financial Innovation for Industrial Renewal
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 July 2019) | Viewed by 197
Special Issue Editors
Interests: financial innovation and risk analytics for industrial renewal; green growth; network theory in finance; efficient financing mechanisms for smart infrastructure systems; business and financing models in the data economy; water risk pricing in the capital markets; indexes and risk transfer mechanisms
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: innovations in (digital supply chains) for emerging industry ecosystems; shared mobility; smart energy grids; natural resource management including forests; transitions in the cleantech sector ; the reemergence and integration of digital technology in the textile and food industry
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Smart cities and their functions in the provision of water, energy, transportation, green buildings, and waste management are a central theme of considerable research and commercial interest. But where the technological advances and promise associated with the deployment of industrial IoT (internet of things) and digitalization are receiving attention, it remains unclear how we finance these innovations. Big data streams and trends are being generated across application use cases and harnessed for improving operational efficiencies and aspirations of delivering quality of life experiences. Yet, the financing is poorly understood and underexplored in the academic literature. Supply chain digitalization is enabling shifts towards data-driven business models and allows for tracking metrics for sustainable management in business operations. This Special Issue will explore the impact of data derived from technology integration on how sustainable projects are financed, given how the value capture is shifting in digital supply chains. Financial network models indicate that the monetization of data influences which companies are able to capture value in emerging smart-anything industries. Efficient financing models such as variable interest rate impact bonds, green bonds, green asset-backed securities, climate insurance and derivatives, and the deployment of blockchains and cryptocurrency rely on new data streams that can be independently validated. The scope, scale, frequency, latency, and accuracy of data measured across smart cities services are becoming direct inputs for new financial models and risk management or transfer paradigms. Not only are data a key impetus for scaling and defining sustainable practice in public and private infrastructure systems, but efficient financing mechanisms can also help bridge the $4.5–7.0 trillion annual infrastructure finance gap.
Prof. Dr. Peter Adriaens
Dr. Antti Tahvanainen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Infrastructure systems
- Financial models
- Sensors and big data
- Internet of things
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