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  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
14,659 Views
31 Pages

29 January 2022

In recent years, the innovation ecosystem concept has received much attention in the strategy and innovation fields to address radical or discontinuous innovation. This study aims to explore the innovation ecosystem construct of incumbents in the fac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Business Performance and Sustainable Innovation Strategies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,997 Views
24 Pages

Dynamic Differential Game Strategy of the Energy Big Data Ecosystem Considering Technological Innovation

  • Jun Dong,
  • A-Ru-Han Bao,
  • Yao Liu,
  • Xi-Hao Dou and ,
  • Dong-Ran Liu and
  • Gui-Yuan Xue
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 June 2022

This study discusses how to create strategic value through energy big data and how to promote stakeholder interaction mechanisms in the evolution of the energy big data ecosystem. We use differential game methods to study the interaction between one...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,879 Views
13 Pages

Dashboard Meta-Model for Knowledge Management in Technological Ecosystem: A Case Study in Healthcare

  • Andrea Vázquez-Ingelmo,
  • Alicia García-Holgado,
  • Francisco José García-Peñalvo and
  • Roberto Therón

Informal caregivers play an important role in healthcare systems in many countries. They have a high impact on reducing care costs related to dependent persons because their support prevents institutionalization. A technological ecosystem has been de...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient ‪Intelligence UCAmI 2019‬)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
11,313 Views
30 Pages

13 November 2019

With a longitudinal case study on the development of Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) technology of China Electronics (CEC) Panda, this study examined how Chinese firms build their technological innovation ecosystem (TIE). We explored the evolution and t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,208 Views
34 Pages

11 July 2019

The technological components regarding building cladding are designed for ensuring thermo-hygrometric comfort conditions within habitable spaces and realising smart buildings. Often the solutions adopted are identified referring only to the character...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability Assessment of Energy Technologies and Energy Systems and Their Contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,972 Views
16 Pages

Are Ecosystem Services Replaceable by Technology Yet? Bio-Inspired Technologies for Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities

  • Shoshanah Jacobs,
  • Jindong Zhang,
  • Emily Wolf,
  • Elizabeth Porter and ,
  • Shelby J. Bohn,
  • Adam Maxwell Sparks,
  • Marjan Eggermont,
  • Mindi Summers,
  • Claudia I. Rivera Cárdenas and
  • Kristina Wanieck
  • + 18 authors+ 13 authors

19 November 2025

As ecological collapse accelerates under the pressures of anthropogenic climate change, adaptation strategies increasingly include technological proxies for nature’s functions. But can ecosystem services (ES) be meaningfully replaced by technol...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bio-Inspired Technologies for Ecosystem Service Support, Enhancement or Replacement)
  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,364 Views
46 Pages

Technological Ecosystems in Care and Assistance: A Systematic Literature Review

  • Samuel Marcos-Pablos and
  • Francisco José García-Peñalvo

9 February 2019

Applying the concepts of technological ecosystems to the care and assistance domain is an emerging field that has gained interest during the last years, as they allow to describe the complex relationships between actors in a technologically boosted c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Technologies for Caring People with Disabilities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,106 Views
13 Pages

The paper addresses the impact of disruptive technologies on the sport ecosystem, represented by four constitutive elements: athletes, coaches, judges, and fans. In particular, the paper argues that to understand the changes introduced by Artificial...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Impact of Biotechnology: A New Paradigm in Sport?)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,990 Views
13 Pages

13 February 2024

The use of technology in different aspects of the sports industry is widespread across the world, affecting sports training, performance, judging, and spectating. However, the integration, deployment, and evolution of technologies in the sports indus...

(This article belongs to the Topic Sport and Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,921 Views
33 Pages

Ecosystem business models are becoming widespread in the modern economy; their potential is increasingly understood by financial institutions. Banks become part of the ecosystems and some of them initiate their creation, seeing in this business model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
837 Views
25 Pages

Succeeding Through Quality: The Impact of the Science and Technology Finance Ecosystem on Innovation in Specialized and Sophisticated SMEs

  • Jing Zhang,
  • Xinkai Lv,
  • Jun Shen,
  • Rongjie Li and ,
  • Qianwen Zhang and
  • Lei Nie
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 April 2026

Achieving high-level self-reliance in science and technology requires a science and technology finance ecosystem that is aligned with the needs of technological innovation. To overcome bottlenecks in core technologies, firms must accelerate R&D,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
53 Citations
18,264 Views
16 Pages

Application of Ecological Restoration Technologies for the Improvement of Biodiversity and Ecosystem in the River

  • Pushuang Li,
  • Dan Li,
  • Xiaoqing Sun,
  • Zhaosheng Chu and ,
  • Ting Xia and
  • Binghui Zheng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 April 2022

With global warming, urbanization, and the intensification of human activities, great pressures on river ecosystems have caused ecosystem degradation, the decline in habitats and biodiversity, and the loss of function. Ecological restoration technolo...

(This article belongs to the Section Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
7,831 Views
16 Pages

7 September 2021

Although exponential technologies promise to bring unprecedented value at the socio-economic and policy levels, the social acceptability and preparedness for the technological “singularity” should be carefully considered. In particular, whereas digit...

(This article belongs to the Section International Entrepreneurship)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,674 Views
16 Pages

Designing an IT Ecosystem for Pregnancy Care Management Based on Pervasive Technologies

  • Daniel Bjelica,
  • Artur Bjelica,
  • Marijana Despotović-Zrakić,
  • Božidar Radenković and ,
  • Dušan Barać and
  • Marko Đogatović
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 December 2020

Pregnancy care is a topic of interest for both academia and practitioners. Novel pervasive technologies and applications, such as mobile technologies, wearables and IoT, open a wide corpus of possibilities for fostering pregnancy care management, and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Maternal and Child Health: Advances in Translational Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
9,361 Views
19 Pages

22 December 2020

Innovation systems are increasingly oriented towards the solution of societal and environmental problems. Social entrepreneurship can be regarded as a market-based actor, inherently aimed at finding solutions for these problems. The development of te...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Businesses and Social Entrepreneurship in the Face of Sustainable Development Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,676 Views
26 Pages

9 April 2025

Based on the perspective of an innovation ecosystem, the system dynamics research method is used to construct a technological innovation ecosystem model of autonomous vehicles in China. Vensim PLE software was used for simulation to obtain the develo...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,685 Views
28 Pages

Internet of Things Adoption in Technology Ecosystems Within the Central African Region: The Case of Silicon Mountain

  • Godlove Suila Kuaban,
  • Valery Nkemeni,
  • Onyeka J. Nwobodo,
  • Piotr Czekalski and
  • Fabien Mieyeville

16 October 2024

The Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as a transformative technology with the potential to revolutionize various sectors and industries worldwide. Despite its global significance, the adoption and implementation of IoT technologies in emerging tec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Scalable and Distributed Cloud Continuum Orchestration for Next-Generation IoT Applications: Latest Advances and Prospects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,531 Views
16 Pages

Technological Ecosystems in Citizen Science: A Framework to Involve Children and Young People

  • Alicia García-Holgado,
  • Francisco José García-Peñalvo and
  • Paul Butler

1 March 2020

Young people are distinguished as a social group with the capacity to drive new behaviours and understandings in today’s society. However, most young people consider that people in charge of decision-making processes are not addressing their co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Opportunities and Challenges for the Future of Open Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,604 Views
17 Pages

Telepresence with Hologram Effect: Technological Ecosystem for Distance Education

  • Carla Victoria Ramirez-Lopez,
  • Leticia Castano,
  • Patricia Aldape and
  • Santa Tejeda

18 December 2021

One of the most significant challenges of telepresence distance education is to bring the professor and the students closer together in a synchronistic educational experience where the professor is perceived as anatomically proportionate. Telepresenc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Education 4.0: Mobilizing for Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,235 Views
21 Pages

20 October 2025

The Science and Technology Finance ecosystem plays an increasingly important role in shaping the sustainable development of new quality productive forces (NQPF). This study, based on the perspective of complex systems and using a multi-period fsQCA a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
7,122 Views
15 Pages

On Technology in Innovation Systems and Innovation-Ecosystem Perspectives: A Cross-Linking Analysis

  • Cristina Caterina Amitrano,
  • Marco Tregua,
  • Tiziana Russo Spena and
  • Francesco Bifulco

17 October 2018

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the role of technology as it has been framed within Innovation System (IS) and Innovation Ecosystem (IE) literature research streams. The methodological choice is a systemic review that allows to focus on theor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability of Economy, Society, and Environment in the 4th Industrial Revolution)
  • Article
  • Open Access
108 Citations
16,496 Views
24 Pages

Social Innovation in Smart Tourism Ecosystems: How Technology and Institutions Shape Sustainable Value Co-Creation

  • Francesco Polese,
  • Antonio Botti,
  • Mara Grimaldi,
  • Antonella Monda and
  • Massimiliano Vesci

9 January 2018

In the service era, markets are reconceptualized as systems of actors interconnected through networked relationships based on resources exchange and producing value co-creation. Two of the main contemporary service research theories, Service-dominant...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Innovation and Value Co-Creation: Finding the Strategic Link in Business Management towards Sustainability)
  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,937 Views
11 Pages

Application of eDNA Metabarcoding Technology to Monitor the Health of Aquatic Ecosystems

  • Xu Liang,
  • Xinyu Yang,
  • Na Sha,
  • Jun Wang and ,
  • Guanglei Qiu and
  • Ming Chang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 April 2025

Environmental DNA (eDNA) is DNA isolated from environmental samples. It is distinctly different from genomic DNA, which is extracted directly from biological specimens. eDNA metabarcoding technology is a novel surveillance tool combining eDNA and sec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Contaminants in Natural and Engineered Water Environments: Environmental Behavior, Ecological Effects and Control Strategies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,705 Views
20 Pages

New Energy-Resource Efficiency, Technological Efficiency, and Ecosystems Impact Ratings for the Sustainability of China’s Provinces

  • Alina Steblyanskaya,
  • Zhen Wang,
  • Alexander Martynov,
  • Ai Mingye and ,
  • Vladimir Artykhov,
  • Ziming Wang,
  • Vladimir Bocharnikov and
  • Alena Kiselik
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

2 January 2021

This paper concerns the necessity of ecosystem protection and energy efficiency rating development. The article analyzes the experience of the non-commercial Environmental and Energy Rating Agency (Interfax-ERA) ratings concerning the environmental a...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,622 Views
21 Pages

12 February 2021

Large-scale disasters, such as hurricanes, cyclones, tsunamis, and forest fires, have caused considerable damage in recent years. This study investigated two case studies of discontinuous open levees (kasumi-tei), which are a traditional Japanese riv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Flood Risk Management and Resilience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,342 Views
26 Pages

12 April 2025

As the competition of standards among enterprises turns to the competition among innovation ecosystems, how to construct the technology standardization innovation ecosystem (TSIE) is of great significance to enhance the competitiveness of enterprises...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Systems Approaches in Knowledge Management and Organizational Innovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,256 Views
22 Pages

30 December 2022

Ecosystem services (ES) has an important place in sustainability science research as a powerful bridge between society and nature. Based on 513 papers correlated with ES in the field of green sustainable science and technology (GSST) indexed in ISI W...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Road to Sustainable Resources and Environmental Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,178 Views
21 Pages

30 December 2023

To tackle the significant increase in traffic congestion and pollution in urban areas, waterborne transport systems can offer a more efficient and environmentally friendly alternative, decreasing traffic congestion on roads, noise, and pollution emis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Multidisciplinary Approach to Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,444 Views
22 Pages

Technological Unemployment Anxiety in the Post-Digital Ecosystem: A Bibliometric Analysis

  • Sabri Öz,
  • M. Çağrı Pehlivanoğlu,
  • Mustafa Emre Civelek and
  • Adnan Veysel Ertemel

12 March 2026

Rapid advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and Industry 4.0 technologies have intensified concerns about job displacement and reshaped employment relations globally. While technological unemployment has been widely examined, its psycholog...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Employment Relations in the Era of Industry 4.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
403 Views
23 Pages

1 September 2026

The rapid advancement of new technologies has enabled the patent pool to become a crucial infrastructure within the technology ecosystem. As a multi-layer complex system, patent pool system management not only affects the profits of participants but...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Economic System Management, Sustainability, and Innovation in Digital Environments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,528 Views
11 Pages

27 July 2023

The extended lockdown and limited in-person interactions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic have radically changed many consumers’ shopping behavior. These changes include a rapid rise in online shopping, leading to the fast growth of e-logis...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,602 Views
19 Pages

18 August 2022

The technology innovation of high-tech industries has become an important support for the innovation-driven strategy. This study introduces innovation ecosystem synergy as a moderating variable from a systemic and holistic perspective based on the tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,039 Views
29 Pages

A Technological Approach to Support Extensive Livestock Management in the Portuguese Montado Ecosystem

  • João Serrano,
  • Luís Roma,
  • Shakib Shahidian,
  • Anabela D. F. Belo and ,
  • Emanuel Carreira,
  • Luís L. Paniagua,
  • Francisco Moral,
  • Luís Paixão and
  • José Marques da Silva
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

18 May 2022

Extensive livestock production systems based on improved pastures under Montado of Holm oaks represent an approach in line with the challenges of sustainability and biodiversity. The increasing incorporation of technologies in the monitoring of this...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Management of Grasslands: Forage Growth and Nutritive Composition, Livestock Grazing and Performance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,111 Views
26 Pages

Climate Changes Challenges to the Management of Mediterranean Montado Ecosystem: Perspectives for Use of Precision Agriculture Technologies

  • João Serrano,
  • Shakib Shahidian,
  • José Marques da Silva,
  • Luís Paixão and ,
  • Emanuel Carreira,
  • Alfredo Pereira and
  • Mário Carvalho
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

3 February 2020

Montado is an agro-silvo-pastoral system characterized by a high complexity as a result of the interactions between climate, soil, pasture, trees, and animals. It is in this context that management decisions must be made, for example with respect to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from 10th Iberian Agroengineering Congress)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,348 Views
20 Pages

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Led Technological Tremors: A Seismic Shift towards Digitizing the Legal Ecosystem

  • Hitesh Bhatt,
  • Rajesh Bahuguna,
  • Rajesh Singh,
  • Anita Gehlot and ,
  • Shaik Vaseem Akram,
  • Neeraj Priyadarshi and
  • Bhekisipho Twala
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

17 November 2022

The legal ecosystem is continuously confronted with new challenges and disruptions as a result of the technological invasion initiated by cutting-edge technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics, which have taken over the world. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
772 Views
33 Pages

27 March 2026

To explore whether the causal chain of “Industry–University–Government Integrated Innovation Ecosystem → Novel Energy Storage Technology Innovation → Dual-Control Energy Targets” can be achieved, this study analyzes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Innovation and Energy Transformation Toward Regional Economy Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,083 Views
23 Pages

22 April 2026

In the context of occupational environments and sustainable employment, this review explores the effects of declining workers’ health, environmental degradation, and the depletion of marine resources on workers’ psychological well-being....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Marine Ecosystem: Conservation, Functioning, and Resilience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,570 Views
22 Pages

27 February 2024

Digital innovation ecosystems are currently experiencing a period of growth and are navigating uncertain environments. Improving resilience is an important prerequisite for ensuring sustainable developments. This study, based on the technology, organ...

(This article belongs to the Topic Energy Management and Sustainable Development from Economic, Social and Environmental Aspects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,402 Views
29 Pages

1 August 2025

This article examines how digital innovation ecosystems have emerged as strategic institutions of power in contemporary world politics. It argues that, unlike Cold War technological rivalries driven by centralized, state-led control, today’s di...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Organizational Digital Innovation and Transformation in Enterprise and Government Strategies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,377 Views
14 Pages

5 April 2021

Data are crucial to improve decision-making and obtain greater benefits in any type of activity. However, the large amount of information generated by new technologies has made data analysis and knowledge generation a complex task. Numerous tools hav...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovations in the Field of Cloud Computing and Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
11,034 Views
24 Pages

Nowadays, the relevance of technology transfer center network has been greatly increased due to interdisciplinary modern innovations, and cross-sectoral collaboration in project implementation. This paper highlights theoretical and conceptual foundat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,998 Views
37 Pages

30 June 2025

This paper systematically reviews the progress of remote-sensing technology in coastal-ecosystem health assessment. Coastal ecosystems, as transitional zones between land and ocean, play vital roles in maintaining biodiversity, carbon sequestration,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing in Coastal Water Environment Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
20,469 Views
25 Pages

An Eco-Systematic View of Cross-Sector Fintech: The Case of Alibaba and Tencent

  • Yingying Zhang-Zhang,
  • Sylvia Rohlfer and
  • Jay Rajasekera

27 October 2020

This paper explores the most recent Fintech (financial technology) phenomenon from an ecosystem perspective. Differentiated from the earlier Fintech evolution led by traditional financial institutions, “cross-sector” Fintech that operates...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Insurtech, Proptech & Fintech Environment: Sustainability, Global Trends and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,038 Views
21 Pages

Your Firm Needs a Sustainable Business Innovation Ecosystem

  • Shihong Zhang,
  • Min-Jae Lee,
  • Guanyu Chen,
  • Jin-Sup Jung and
  • Moon Hwan Cho

20 December 2024

There have been many discussions about the business ecosystem in order to promote the sustainable growth of firms recently. Business ecosystems have developed independently from three perspectives: business, innovation, and the platform ecosystem. Ho...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,205 Views
17 Pages

Design and Development Model of a Web Accessibility Ecosystem

  • Galina Bogdanova,
  • Todor Todorov,
  • Juliana Dochkova-Todorova,
  • Nikolay Noev and
  • Negoslav Sabev

7 October 2024

The article examines issues of web accessibility ecosystems for people with special needs. Methods, models, accessibility standards, and technologies related to the structure, design, and functionality of the web accessibility ecosystem are studied....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Information in 2024–2025)
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
7,252 Views
24 Pages

Cross-Sectoral Digital Platform as a Tool for Innovation Ecosystem Development

  • Leyla Gamidullaeva,
  • Tatyana Tolstykh,
  • Andrey Bystrov,
  • Alexey Radaykin and
  • Nadezhda Shmeleva

22 October 2021

At present, issues of ecosystem self-organization and the mechanisms for their sustainable development have been insufficiently explored in academic literature. The key idea of our research is that for enterprises interacting in different industries...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation Development and Sustainability in the Digital Age)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,759 Views
16 Pages

The Entropy Model for Sustainability Assessment in Industrial Ecosystems

  • Tatyana Tolstykh,
  • Nadezhda Shmeleva,
  • Yulia Vertakova and
  • Vladimir Plotnikov

The aim of this paper is to address the gap in the academic literature towards the development of methodological approaches to the industrial ecosystem sustainability assessment. This study was focused on the industrial ecosystems formed based on an...

(This article belongs to the Section Inventions and Innovation in Design, Modeling and Computing Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,349 Views
15 Pages

Enabling Value Co-Creation in Healthcare through Blockchain Technology

  • Tiziana Russo-Spena,
  • Cristina Mele,
  • Ylenia Cavacece,
  • Sara Ebraico and ,
  • Carina Dantas,
  • Pedro Roseiro and
  • Willeke van Staalduinen
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need to manage complex relations within the healthcare ecosystem. The role of new technologies in achieving this goal is a topic of current interest. Among them, blockchain technology is experiencing widespread a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Health and Wellbeing in Smart Built Inclusive Societies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,384 Views
16 Pages

29 April 2021

The combination of building energy management technology and technology of the Fourth Industrial Revolution has a significant potential for reducing energy consumption and, hence, CO2 emissions. However, numerous studies have indicated barriers preve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,337 Views
26 Pages

5 January 2026

The rapid growth of digital technology has fundamentally reshaped the entrepreneurial landscape, giving rise to complex digital entrepreneurial ecosystem. While digital entrepreneurship is often presented as a means of empowering women, its actual im...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Business Models and Digital Transformation)

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