Strategies to Build Startup Dynamic Capabilities for a Sustainable and Competitive Advantage: Engineering & Management Perspective

Dear Colleagues,

Startups operate in highly competitive and fluctuating markets, and continuous innovation is key to their survival. Continuous innovation can come in various forms, such as through business model innovation. This requires startups to be highly responsive to opportunities in the marketplace. These opportunities could result in radical or incremental innovations. This ability to foster innovation comes from the dynamic capabilities of the startup. This Special Issue aims to disseminate research that highlights how startups could continuously innovate in fluctuating markets and, most importantly, how they continuously build their dynamic capabilities. The focus is to highlight the research from an engineering perspective with observed business impacts (business perspective).

A large number of software firms have recently been exploring the prospects based on emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchains, and distributed cloud. These technologies assist startups in either improving or incorporating existing business processes into their product or service offerings. Their development, practical applications, and adoption are mostly unrealized. Details of the lessons learned during the pandemic could also be submitted to this Special Issue, but the corresponding articles must highlight how these lessons are applicable to the new normal.

Dr. Varun Gupta
Dr. Leandro Ferreira Pereira
Dr. Lawrence Peters
Prof. Dr. Chetna Gupta
Prof. Dr. Thomas Hanne
Prof. Dr. Antonio Ferreras
Guest Editors

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